# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matt-tong
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:35:40.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matt-tong"
name: "Matt Tong"
slug: "matt-tong"
description: "Matthew Chee Hung Tong is a British musician from Bournemouth, England. He is best known as the drummer of Bloc Party from 2002 to 2013 and has been a member of Algiers since 2015."
tagline: "British musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matt_Tong.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1979-04-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.19
  momentum:             5.647058823529413
  historical:           7.785034666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1896627/"
    handle:    "nm1896627"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/398362"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Tong"
    title: "Matt Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Tong"
    title: "Matt Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Tong"
    title: "Matt Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Tong"
    title: "Matt Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Tong"
    title: "Matt Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Tong"
    title: "Matt Tong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/1449f04c-5d12-4c58-9cb3-99141c372b5f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3180549"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4425778"
    title: "Matt Tong"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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