# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jon-toogood
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:07:36.538Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jon-toogood"
name: "Jon Toogood"
slug: "jon-toogood"
description: "Jonathan Charles Toogood is a New Zealand musician who was the frontman of the rock band Shihad. He started playing guitar when he was \"8 or 9\" and became friends with Tom Larkin while at Wellington High School. Toogood and Larkin were fans of AC/DC and Metallica and started Shihad in 1988."
tagline: "New Zealand musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jon_Toogood.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1971-08-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.018324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0970364/"
    handle:    "nm0970364"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/359436"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "چون توجود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Toogood"
    title: "Jon Toogood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Toogood"
    title: "Jon Toogood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Toogood"
    title: "Jon Toogood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Тугуд, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Toogood"
    title: "Jon Toogood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eca99f45-efa2-4c45-85e5-cde763836a13"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3030366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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