# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-thayil
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:43:22.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-thayil"
name: "Kim Thayil"
slug: "kim-thayil"
description: "Kim Anand Thayil is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he co-founded with singer Chris Cornell and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984. Cornell and Thayil remained as the original members of the band until Cornell's death in 2017, and the band's subsequent split in 2018. Thayil was named the 100th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone in 2010, and the 67th greatest guitarist of all time by SPIN in 2012. Thayil has won two Grammy Awards as a member of Soundgarden."
tagline: "American guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kim_Thayil_-_Fabrik_Hamburg_2018_04.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: "1960-09-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.16
  momentum:             3.548881571477235
  historical:           19.65914
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857237/"
    handle:    "nm0857237"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kim Thayil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kim Thayil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kim Thayil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump