# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gosta-sundqvist
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:29:12.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gosta-sundqvist"
name: "Gösta Sundqvist"
slug: "gosta-sundqvist"
description: "Gösta Erik Sundqvist was a Finnish musician, radio comedian and record producer. He was the lead singer of Leevi and the Leavings from the band's formation in the late 1970s until his death, and composed, wrote the lyrics for, and arranged every song the band released. In 1996 he received the prestigious Juha Vainio Award for lyric writing. Sundqvist systematically avoided publicity: Leevi and the Leavings never toured and gave only a single public performance under their own name, at the 1981 Finnish Eurovision preselection. From 1996 onwards he stopped giving interviews altogether and largely withdrew from public life."
tagline: "Finnish musician, comedian and music producer (1957–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9f/Gosta_Sundqvist.webp/330px-Gosta_Sundqvist.webp.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-05-17"
deathDate: "2003-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.24
  momentum:             8.258182035355949
  historical:           7.495826666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839223/"
    handle:    "nm0839223"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/438546"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Sundqvist"
    title: "Gösta Sundqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Sundqvist"
    title: "Gösta Sundqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Sundqvist"
    title: "Gösta Sundqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Sundqvist"
    title: "Gösta Sundqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Sundqvist"
    title: "Gösta Sundqvist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikiquote.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Sundqvist"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/434c6498-2b67-4c58-8baf-e30466043b63"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1559680"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4616969"
    title: "Gösta Sundqvist"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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