# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tobin-sprout
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:24:58.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tobin-sprout"
name: "Tobin Sprout"
slug: "tobin-sprout"
description: "Tobin Sprout is an American visual artist, musician, songwriter, and children's author. He is most notable as a former member of the indie rock band Guided by Voices. He served as a secondary major songwriter and guitarist of the group from 1987 to 1997 and again from 2010 to 2014. Pitchfork has referred to him as \"the AC/DC of lo-fi rock\" for his \"dogged insistence on sticking to his original strategy\" in creating music, ie. \"that production values basically don't matter\"."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tobin_Sprout_Barracuda_2017.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: "1955-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.58
  momentum:             0.1935483870967742
  historical:           6.639816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819855/"
    handle:    "nm0819855"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LsbZ4vhm7aWOEqBLZQfbX"
    handle:    "2LsbZ4vhm7aWOEqBLZQfbX"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tobinsprout.net"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/198683"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "توبين سپروت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_Sprout"
    title: "Tobin Sprout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_Sprout"
    title: "Tobin Sprout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_Sprout"
    title: "Tobin Sprout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_Sprout"
    title: "Tobin Sprout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4b05ba8c-0f7b-4735-b8c1-153a5875a4d8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2216063"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1938580"
    title: "Tobin Sprout"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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