# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/char
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:29:19.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/char"
name: "Char"
slug: "char"
description: "Hisato Takenaka , known professionally as Char, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is considered one of Japan's greatest guitar players."
tagline: "Japanese guitarist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.41
  momentum:             10.83162358284132
  historical:           8.629434666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Char8ZICCA"
    handle:    "Char8ZICCA"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/char_official/"
    handle:    "char_official"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/char8zicca"
    handle:    "char8zicca"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.zicca.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/559797"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "تشار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_(musician)"
    title: "Char (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1_(%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "چار (نوازنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_(musicista)"
    title: "Char (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char"
    title: "Char"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char"
    title: "Char"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80_(%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82)"
    title: "Чар (музыкант)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4c2cae25-5b05-4fb0-886d-a88f57ee778a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11194453"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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