# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-welch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:23:24.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-welch"
name: "Bruce Welch"
slug: "bruce-welch"
description: "Bruce Welch is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a founding member of the Shadows."
tagline: "English musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Welch_-_22_September_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-11-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.02
  momentum:             1.7298937784522
  historical:           13.38184133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919518/"
    handle:    "nm0919518"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.brucewelchtribute.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "بروس ويلتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%81"
    title: "ブルース・ウェルチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B8%8C%EB%A3%A8%EC%8A%A4_%EC%9B%B0%EC%B9%98"
    title: "브루스 웰치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Welch"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/12bf9214-d021-4f15-9ca0-8e9876df09e0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q991880"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23221"
    title: "Bruce Welch"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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