# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sami-yli-sirnio
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:53:04.189Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sami-yli-sirnio"
name: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
slug: "sami-yli-sirnio"
description: "Sami Yli-Sirniö is a Finnish musician who is currently the lead guitarist of the German band Kreator and the Finnish metal bands Waltari and Barren Earth. He spent part of his life in Germany and thus has strong ties with the German metal scene. German Rock Hard magazine featured him in 2007 as a \"forgotten guitar hero\"."
tagline: "Finnish guitarist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kreator_%E2%80%93_Reload_Festival_2015_08.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1972-04-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.27218
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5OpE2VHSQsDY77cYQ6uueg"
    handle:    "5OpE2VHSQsDY77cYQ6uueg"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.waltarimusic.com/waltari/personal.php?who=sami"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/260192"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "سامى يلى سيرنيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yli-Sirni%C3%B6"
    title: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yli-Sirni%C3%B6"
    title: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yli-Sirni%C3%B6"
    title: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yli-Sirni%C3%B6"
    title: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yli-Sirni%C3%B6"
    title: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yli-Sirni%C3%B6"
    title: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yli-Sirni%C3%B6"
    title: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Yli-Sirni%C3%B6"
    title: "Sami Yli-Sirniö"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a46c51bb-1c21-4ee1-bc11-10da78e63cd2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1968488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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