# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stomu-yamashta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:37:03.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stomu-yamashta"
name: "Stomu Yamashta"
slug: "stomu-yamashta"
description: "Stomu Yamashta, born Tsutomu Yamashita , is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is best known for pioneering and popularising a fusion of traditional Japanese percussive music with Western progressive rock music in the 1960s and 1970s."
tagline: "Japanese musician"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gSY0bqSnogK1PeD7Vx5udDDBLrT.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-03-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.21318133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945648/"
    handle:    "nm0945648"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ستومو ياماشتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Stomu Yamashta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta"
    title: "Stomu Yamashta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashita"
    title: "Stomu Yamashita"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "استومو یاماشیتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta"
    title: "Stomu Yamashta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta"
    title: "Stomu Yamashta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta"
    title: "Stomu Yamashta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%84%E3%83%88%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%82%BF"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta"
    title: "Stomu Yamashta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta"
    title: "Stomu Yamashta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E5%8B%89"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q781722"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14899"
    title: "Stomu Yamashta"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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