# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-schenker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:11:13.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-schenker"
name: "Michael Schenker"
slug: "michael-schenker"
description: "Michael Schenker is a German guitarist. He played in the rock band UFO and leads the Michael Schenker Group (MSG). He was an early member of the hard rock band Scorpions, a band co-founded by his elder brother Rudolf Schenker. In the mid-1970s, Schenker joined UFO, playing lead and rhythm guitar. He left the band in 1978 to briefly rejoin Scorpions for the recording of Lovedrive, and then to form MSG. He rejoined UFO three times, producing an album each time. Schenker continues to perform and record. He is regarded as one of the most influential guitarists of the 1970s, and has been called \"a legendary figure in the history of metal guitar\"."
tagline: "German guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Schenker_au_Hellfest_2022_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.800138592134897
  historical:           24.995952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump