# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-z
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:45:22.487Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-z"
name: "Roy Z"
slug: "roy-z"
description: "Roy Z Ramirez is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Bruce Dickinson, Halford, and Judas Priest. He also is the founder of Tribe of Gypsies, a Latin-influenced hard rock band. Roy also helped write and produce the band Life After Death in 1996."
tagline: "American musician and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IRoy_Z.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: "1963-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.88
  momentum:             3.67741935483871
  historical:           15.17351466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/royzmusic"
    handle:    "royzmusic"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://royzmusic.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/267674"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%B2%D9%89"
    title: "روى زى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BBZ"
    title: "ロイ・Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Z"
    title: "Roy Z"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7f2519d8-a09d-45f2-8210-d6e44093a722"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q703264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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