# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oz-fox
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:36:54.594Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oz-fox"
name: "Oz Fox"
slug: "oz-fox"
description: "Richard Alfonso Martinez, better known by the stage name Oz Fox, is the lead guitarist of the Christian glam metal band Stryper. Martinez' high school friends called him Oz in honor of Ozzy Osbourne due to his ability to emulate the vocals of Osbourne while playing Black Sabbath covers in his pre-Stryper days. He was recruited by the Sweet brothers in 1983 to form what would become Stryper. As a founding member of the band, Fox recorded and toured with Stryper until the band's first break up in 1992 but has since rejoined the band."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oz_Fox_Stryper_10_16_2016_(30014407513).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: "1961-06-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.54
  momentum:             18.76684636118598
  historical:           10.80688133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ozfox.us/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/465211"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B2_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "أوز فوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "اوز فوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%81%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "از فاکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_Fox"
    title: "Oz Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_Fox"
    title: "Oz Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B2_%D9%81%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "آز فاکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_Fox"
    title: "Oz Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A4%EC%A6%88_%ED%8F%AD%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "오즈 폭스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_Fox"
    title: "Oz Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_Fox"
    title: "Oz Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_Fox"
    title: "Oz Fox"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d5b2b682-aade-4f44-9a4f-37288a682341"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2410711"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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