# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ryuichi-sakamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:08:06.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ryuichi-sakamoto"
name: "Ryuichi Sakamoto"
slug: "ryuichi-sakamoto"
description: "Ryuichi Sakamoto  was a Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his YMO bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. As a film score composer, Sakamoto won an Academy Award (Oscar), BAFTA, Grammy and two Golden Globe Awards."
tagline: "Japanese composer (1952–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RyuichiSakamotoJI4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-01-17"
deathDate: "2023-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           27.262696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  74
  category: null
totalFollowers: 393000
platforms:
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    handle:    "skmtgram"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump