# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiro-yamamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:52.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiro-yamamoto"
name: "Hiro Yamamoto"
slug: "hiro-yamamoto"
description: "Hiro D. Yamamoto is an American bassist who was a founding member of grunge band Soundgarden, along with Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell, in 1984. He left the band in 1989; two years later, Yamamoto started the independent rock band Truly together with Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel and Robert Roth from The Storybook Krooks. In 2016, Yamamoto co-founded the surf trio Stereo Donkey. In 2025, Yamamoto was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a founding member of Soundgarden."
tagline: "Japanese-American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Soundgarden_bassist_Hiro_Yamamoto_in_a_1987_Sub_Pop_promotional_photo_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1961-04-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.41
  momentum:             15.31853167554766
  historical:           18.96074133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1860859/"
    handle:    "nm1860859"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هيرو ياماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيرو ياماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "הירו ימאמוטו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ヒロ・ヤマモト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Ямамото, Хиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Yamamoto"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хіро Ямамото"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461564"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5815671"
    title: "Hiro Yamamoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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