# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marco-hietala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:14:22.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marco-hietala"
name: "Marco Hietala"
slug: "marco-hietala"
description: "Marko Tapani \"Marco\" Hietala is a Finnish heavy metal musician. Internationally, he is best known as the former bassist, male vocalist and secondary composer to Tuomas Holopainen, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He is also the vocalist and bassist as well as composer and lyricist for the heavy metal band Tarot."
tagline: "Finnish musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marko_Hietala%2C_B90%2C_27.02.2025_21.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.387189045582722
  historical:           23.983796
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 67200
platforms:
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    handle:    "MarkoHietala_"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/marko_hietala_official/"
    handle:    "marko_hietala_official"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/markohietalaofficial"
    handle:    "markohietalaofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm2334636"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
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    handle:    "@markohietalaofficial"
    followers: 67200
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "მარკო ჰიეტალა"
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    title: "마르코 히에탈라"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump