# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sean-costello
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:00:55.146Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sean-costello"
name: "Sean Costello"
slug: "sean-costello"
description: "Sean Costello was an American blues musician, renowned for his fiery guitar playing and soulful singing. He released five critically acclaimed albums before his career was cut short by his sudden death from a drug overdose at the age of 28. Tinsley Ellis called him ‘the most gifted young blues guitarist on the scene... he was a triple threat on guitar, vocals and as a songwriter’."
tagline: "American blues musician (1979-2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sean_Costello_by_Donald_Schellhaas.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: "1979-04-16"
deathDate: "2008-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.3
  momentum:             0.7026476578411406
  historical:           7.704502666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "شون كوستيلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "شون كوستيلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Costello"
    title: "Sean Costello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Costello"
    title: "Sean Costello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Costello"
    title: "Sean Costello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Costello"
    title: "Sean Costello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A8%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Костелло, Шон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5e2253ae-da40-4c6f-a720-dfaf698ac549"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506371"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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