# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leif-edling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:52.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leif-edling"
name: "Leif Edling"
slug: "leif-edling"
description: "Leif Edling is a Swedish musician, best known as the bassist, main songwriter and one of the founding members of the doom metal band Candlemass. He is the only constant member of the band since its inception to the present day. Nevertheless, since the band's second reunion in 2002, Edling has been backed up again by founding rhythm guitarist Mats Björkman, who had been absent from 1997 to 2002."
tagline: "Swedish bassist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Candlemass_-_Leif_Edling.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1963-08-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.1
  momentum:             16.97067448680352
  historical:           12.54014266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  248
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4927096/"
    handle:    "nm4927096"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://myspace.com/leifedling"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%82"
    title: "لیف ادلینق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Leif Edling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Leif Edling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%81_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "لیف ادلینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Leif Edling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Leif Edling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Leif Edling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Leif Edling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84"
    title: "Эдлинг, Лейф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Leif Edling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leif_Edling"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/24dc87dc-9e19-4381-9845-520a303ca72c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q663892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1612631"
    title: "Leif Edling"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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