# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-williams
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:04.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-williams"
name: "Joseph Williams"
slug: "joseph-williams"
description: "Joseph Stanley Williams is an American singer, songwriter and film score composer, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Toto from 1986 to 1988 and again since 2010. Outside of Toto, he has worked as a composer and studio vocalist, including providing the singing voice of adult Simba in the 1994 animated film The Lion King."
tagline: "American singer, songwriter, and film score composer, best known for his work in the rock band Toto (born 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Williams_Orebro_Sweden_2013.jpg?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: "1960-09-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.181856553784214
  historical:           20.97313733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/dashlrow"
    handle:    "dashlrow"
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    handle:    "JosephWilliamsFanpage"
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    handle:    "5xk0kRuXn1zToTHpHAqpui"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://josephwilliams.totoweb.org/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "조지프 윌리엄스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Williams"
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    title: "Joseph Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Williams"
    title: "Joseph Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Williams"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump