# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tommy-bolin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:59:54.691Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tommy-bolin"
name: "Tommy Bolin"
slug: "tommy-bolin"
description: "Thomas Richard Bolin was an American rock guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr, the James Gang and Deep Purple, in addition to maintaining a career as a solo artist and session musician, notably for Billy Cobham on his 1973 album Spectrum."
tagline: "American guitarist (1951–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rock_guitarist_Tommy_Bolin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-08-01"
deathDate: "1976-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.363779121023252
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.tbolin.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump