# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-lee-firkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:36:24.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-lee-firkins"
name: "Michael Lee Firkins"
slug: "michael-lee-firkins"
description: "Michael Lee Firkins is an American electric guitar player whose music fuses bluegrass, country, blues, and jazz elements into a distorted rock sound. He is noted amongst guitarists for his prolific use of hybrid picking at high speeds."
tagline: "American musician"
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: "1967-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.758209333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/firkinsguitar"
    handle:    "firkinsguitar"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/michaelleefirkins/"
    handle:    "michaelleefirkins"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Michael-Lee-Firkins-118745014854229"
    handle:    "Michael-Lee-Firkins-118745014854229"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7hDSpyE3c2yq9LUeJuY8xC"
    handle:    "7hDSpyE3c2yq9LUeJuY8xC"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/457339"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "مايكل لى فيركينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lee_Firkins"
    title: "Michael Lee Firkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lee_Firkins"
    title: "Michael Lee Firkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lee_Firkins"
    title: "Michael Lee Firkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "マイケル・リー・ファーキンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lee_Firkins"
    title: "Michael Lee Firkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lee_Firkins"
    title: "Michael Lee Firkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D0%B8"
    title: "Фиркинс, Майкл Ли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c6b0e071-cc63-45f8-81c2-ae8aff25dcc5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308325"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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