# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/devin-townsend
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:59:07.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/devin-townsend"
name: "Devin Townsend"
slug: "devin-townsend"
description: "Devin Garrett Townsend is a Canadian singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He founded extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad and was its primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist from 1994 to 2007. He also has an extensive solo career, and has released a total of 29 albums across all of his projects as of 2024."
tagline: "Canadian singer, guitarist and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Devin_Townsend_Project_%E2%80%93_Wacken_Open_Air_2014_03.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1972-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  63
  category: null
totalFollowers: 212000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump