# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-baloff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:26:26.930Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-baloff"
name: "Paul Baloff"
slug: "paul-baloff"
description: "Paul Nicholas Baloff was an American singer, best known as the original lead vocalist of the thrash metal band Exodus. He was fired from Exodus shortly after the release of the band's 1985 debut album Bonded by Blood, which is considered one of the most influential thrash metal albums of all time. He sang with various other bands before rejoining Exodus in 1997. Baloff died of a stroke in 2002."
tagline: "American heavy metal vocalist (1960–2002)"
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: "1960-04-25"
deathDate: "2002-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.63169066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10627654/"
    handle:    "nm10627654"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://exodusattack.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بول بالوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Πωλ Μπέιλοφ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baloff"
    title: "Paul Baloff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%84%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Бэйлофф, Пол"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2340921"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Paul Baloff"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump