# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kyoji-yamamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:22:26.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kyoji-yamamoto"
name: "Kyoji Yamamoto"
slug: "kyoji-yamamoto"
description: "Kyoji Yamamoto  is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer who is the leader of the hard rock/heavy metal bands Bow Wow and Wild Flag. He is known for his skillful guitar playing, with former bandmate Neil Murray calling him one of the top Japanese guitarists, and was one of the first hard rock guitarists to use the tapping technique. Yamamoto often uses 24-fret Yamaha HR guitars."
tagline: "Japanese musician"
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: "1956-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.07
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           7.078516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KyojiTWJ"
    handle:    "KyojiTWJ"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1123624/"
    handle:    "nm1123624"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kyoji-yamamoto.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1122852"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%DA%86%D9%89_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "كيوچى ياماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoji_Yamamoto"
    title: "Kyoji Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dji_Yamamoto"
    title: "Kyōji Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E6%81%AD%E5%8F%B8"
    title: "山本恭司"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoji_Yamamoto"
    title: "Kyoji Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dji_Yamamoto"
    title: "Kyōji Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9cffcf89-58c5-4d67-9eef-e0919679d4d0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6451957"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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