# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jens-ludwig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:23:29.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jens-ludwig"
name: "Jens Ludwig"
slug: "jens-ludwig"
description: "Jens Ludwig is the lead guitarist and co-founder\nof the German power metal band Edguy. Jens has played nearly all the band's lead parts and guitar solos since their inception and is the only member of the current line-up other than Tobias Sammet to have any songwriting credits. He also contributed lead guitar work for Sammet's Avantasia side project, on both The Metal Opera and The Metal Opera Part II. In 2021, Ludwig and vocalist Nando Fernandes formed a new band, The Grandmaster. He has an endorsement with Gibson guitars, Marshall amplifiers, Ernie Ball - Strings Music Man (company), Vox Amps, Shure mics & wireless equipment, Kemper Profiling Amps and others."
tagline: "German musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jens_Ludwig_2010.03.20.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.86
  momentum:             2.564102564102564
  historical:           10.95075733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%BA"
    title: "ينس لودفيغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC"
    title: "ينس لودفيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Ludwig"
    title: "Jens Ludwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Ludwig"
    title: "Jens Ludwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Ludwig"
    title: "Jens Ludwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Ludwig"
    title: "Jens Ludwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Ludwig"
    title: "Jens Ludwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Ludwig"
    title: "Jens Ludwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Ludwig"
    title: "Jens Ludwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Ludwig"
    title: "Jens Ludwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%84%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B3"
    title: "Єнс Людвіг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/df0a1764-e282-4139-a89e-c658de8754a8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2566813"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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