# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fri-rik-karlsson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:05:07.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fri-rik-karlsson"
name: "Friðrik Karlsson"
slug: "fri-rik-karlsson"
description: "Friðrik Karlsson is an Icelandic musician and songwriter. He studied classical and jazz/rock guitar and had success with the group Mezzoforte in 1983 with the U.K. top 20 hit, \"Garden Party\". He has contributed to the soundtracks of musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar and Saturday Night Fever and to that of movies such as Evita and Hercules. His TV work includes accompanying singers Madonna, José Carreras and Tom Jones. Karlsson has also appeared on albums and singles from Boyzone and Cliff Richard, among others. Friðrik has moved back home to his native Iceland, after living in London, where he among other jobs worked as a session musician playing guitar in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. He has released numerous new-age and relaxation music albums known as \"The Feel Good Collection\". In 2014, Karlsson also played as session musician for Kate Bush's first live performances in 35 years, playing guitar for 22 dates."
tagline: "Music composer and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fridri-Karlsson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-04-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.809
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/406103"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "فريدريك كارلسون (عازف جيتار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_Karlsson"
    title: "Friðrik Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_Karlsson"
    title: "Friðrik Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_Karlsson"
    title: "Friðrik Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_Karlsson"
    title: "Friðrik Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Фридрик Кадльссон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/711782ec-24db-410c-9a5c-7038f7999924"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1469360"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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