# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-champlin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:37:47.995Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-champlin"
name: "Bill Champlin"
slug: "bill-champlin"
description: "William Bradford Champlin is an American singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter. He formed the band Sons of Champlin in 1965, which still performs today, and was a member of the rock band Chicago from 1981 to 2009. He performed lead vocals on three of Chicago's biggest hits of the 1980s, 1984's \"Hard Habit to Break\" and 1988's \"Look Away\" and \"I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love\". During live shows, he sang the songs originally performed by founding guitarist Terry Kath, who had died in 1978. He has won multiple Grammy Awards for songwriting."
tagline: "American singer, musician, arranger, producer, and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Champlin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.857563272513243
  historical:           14.362628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1220
platforms:
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    handle:    "billchamplin"
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    handle:    "billchamplinmusic"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150738/"
    handle:    "nm0150738"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5pLqzTJecAKKbWw0MrDASt"
    handle:    "5pLqzTJecAKKbWw0MrDASt"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "@billchamplinchannel"
    followers: 1220
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيل شامبلن"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Champlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Champlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Champlin"
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    title: "بیل چامپلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Champlin"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "빌 챔플린"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Champlin"
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    title: "Bill Champlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Bill Champlin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump