# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-bissonette
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:55:53.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-bissonette"
name: "Matt Bissonette"
slug: "matt-bissonette"
description: "Matt Bissonette is an American bass player and vocalist. According to Guitar 9, an online musicianship magazine, he has played bass and other stringed instruments on at least 22 albums, with music styles ranging from jazz, jazz fusion, progressive metal and instrumental rock. Bissonette has played bass with performers such as David Lee Roth (1987–1992), Jeff Lynne and ELO (2001), Ringo Starr (2003–2005) and Elton John (2012–2023). He is the brother of drummer Gregg Bissonette."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_Bissonette.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: "1961-07-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.14
  momentum:             0.06734006734006734
  historical:           7.974306666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5JFNgNhuJrysavIXpegyKv"
    handle:    "5JFNgNhuJrysavIXpegyKv"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mattbissonette.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/397975"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "مات بيسونيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bissonette"
    title: "Matt Bissonette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bissonette_(musician)"
    title: "Matt Bissonette (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bissonette"
    title: "Matt Bissonette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bissonette"
    title: "Matt Bissonette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%B7_%EB%B9%84%EC%A0%80%EB%84%B7"
    title: "맷 비저넷"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bissonette"
    title: "Matt Bissonette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/93c429bd-e2cc-4a20-87d5-e626ad4e8dc5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460728"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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