# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kiyoshiro-imawano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:43:08.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kiyoshiro-imawano"
name: "Kiyoshiro Imawano"
slug: "kiyoshiro-imawano"
description: "Kiyoshiro Imawano , born Kiyoshi Kurihara , was a Japanese rock musician, lyricist, composer, musical producer, and actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was dubbed \"Japan's King of Rock\". He formed and led the influential rock band RC Succession. He wrote many anti-nuclear songs following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. He was known for pioneering the adoption of linguistic characteristics of the Japanese language into his songs."
tagline: "Japanese actor-singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kiyoshiro_0ct82003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-04-02"
deathDate: "2009-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           67.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.375276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 39200
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/I_Kiyoshiro"
    handle:    "I_Kiyoshiro"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1097432/"
    handle:    "nm1097432"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/65su2o6jvWfsVRK5uRfvF9"
    handle:    "65su2o6jvWfsVRK5uRfvF9"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://kiyoshiro.co.jp/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpClBKejXXBBj-TzkxrY59A"
    handle:    "@imawanokiyoshiro"
    followers: 39200
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/746944"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "كيوشيرو ايماوانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshiro_Imawano"
    title: "Kiyoshiro Imawano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "کیوشیرو ایماوانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshir%C5%8D_Imawano"
    title: "Kiyoshirō Imawano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BF%8C%E9%87%8E%E6%B8%85%E5%BF%97%E9%83%8E"
    title: "忌野清志郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EB%A7%88%EC%99%80%EB%85%B8_%ED%82%A4%EC%9A%94%EC%8B%9C%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "이마와노 키요시로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshiro_Imawano"
    title: "Kiyoshiro Imawano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshiro_Imawano"
    title: "Kiyoshiro Imawano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c2ee3fed-2f9d-42bf-b524-a19cee50d616"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1041744"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/79946"
    title: "Kiyoshiro Imawano"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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