# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-steele
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:29:58.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-steele"
name: "Peter Steele"
slug: "peter-steele"
description: "Peter Thomas Ratajczyk, known professionally as Peter Steele, was an American musician who was the lead vocalist, bassist, and composer of the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative, Steele had formed the heavy metal band Fallout and the thrash metal band Carnivore."
tagline: "American musician (1962–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Type_O_Negative_-_Coliseu_dos_Recreios3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1962-01-04"
deathDate: "2010-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump