# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claus-lessmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:41:52.309Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claus-lessmann"
name: "Claus Lessmann"
slug: "claus-lessmann"
description: "Claus Lessmann is a German heavy metal musician and former lead singer of heavy metal band Bonfire. He is the only member and singer of Bonfire to have appeared on all of the band's albums through 2015, when he left Bonfire. Lessmann was also one of the two original members of the band until January 2015, the other being lead guitarist Hans Ziller. Before joining Bonfire in 1978, he was in the bands Ginger and Sunset. He is currently the vocalist for Phantom 5. Phantom 5 has released two albums."
tagline: "German singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bonfire_at_Global_East_Rock_Festival_2010_(4)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.162637333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1015339"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كلاوس ليسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Lessmann"
    title: "Claus Lessmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Lessmann"
    title: "Claus Lessmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Lessmann"
    title: "Claus Lessmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Lessmann"
    title: "Claus Lessmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/702b01aa-858e-4c26-a10b-e0d7cfa0c257"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5129518"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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