# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sami-hinkka
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:35:39.752Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sami-hinkka"
name: "Sami Hinkka"
slug: "sami-hinkka"
description: "Sami Hinkka is a heavy metal bass player, presently with Ensiferum. He joined his current band in 2004 as a replacement for Jukka-Pekka Miettinen after playing for some years in the melodic death/doom metal band Rapture. He left his role with Rapture in 2006 and now plays only in Ensiferum."
tagline: "Finnish musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sami_Hinkka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1978-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.64
  momentum:             1.267605633802817
  historical:           9.21116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Sami-Hinkka-Ensiferum-169732333045205"
    handle:    "Sami-Hinkka-Ensiferum-169732333045205"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/393726"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "سامى هنكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Hinkka"
    title: "Sami Hinkka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Hinkka"
    title: "Sami Hinkka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Hinkka"
    title: "Sami Hinkka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Hinkka"
    title: "Sami Hinkka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Hinkka"
    title: "Sami Hinkka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Hinkka"
    title: "Sami Hinkka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AB"
    title: "サミ・ヒンカ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Hinkka"
    title: "Sami Hinkka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/387e8e11-c5fc-4882-b071-2fb879bef755"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1842951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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