# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jari-maenpaa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:53:15.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jari-maenpaa"
name: "Jari Mäenpää"
slug: "jari-maenpaa"
description: "Jari Mäenpää is a Finnish singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He is the founder of the melodic death metal band Wintersun for which he sings and records the majority of instruments except the drums. Before forming Wintersun, Mäenpää was also known for his role in the folk metal band Ensiferum, which he joined in 1996 after leaving his prior band named Immemorial. Wintersun was initially planned as a parallel project alongside Ensiferum, but in January 2004 he was forced to leave Ensiferum due to clashes between their touring schedule and the studio recording time he had booked for Wintersun."
tagline: "Finnish heavy metal musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tuska_20130628_-_Wintersun_-_06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.14557866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/jari.maenpaawintersun"
    handle:    "jari.maenpaawintersun"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چارى ماينپا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Яри Маенпя"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jari_M%C3%A4enp%C3%A4%C3%A4"
    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "יארי מאנפה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jari_M%C3%A4enp%C3%A4%C3%A4"
    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ヤリ・マーエンパー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мяэнпяя, Яри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jari_M%C3%A4enp%C3%A4%C3%A4"
    title: "Jari Mäenpää"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/884439c2-019f-474a-816c-2055be82d58e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q258898"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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