# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tommy-portimo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:35.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tommy-portimo"
name: "Tommy Portimo"
slug: "tommy-portimo"
description: "Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi. Created as a hard rock band named Tricky Beans, they later changed to Tricky Means and finally to Sonata Arctica, when they shifted to power metal. The current lineup consists of drummer Tommy Portimo, lead singer Tony Kakko, keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg, guitarist Elias Viljanen and bassist Pasi Kauppinen. All the musicians of the band's history except Portimo also acted as backing vocalists."
tagline: "Finnish musician and drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonata_Arctica_-_Tommy_Portimo_-_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1981-09-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.31
  momentum:             12
  historical:           12.27404666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Томи Портимо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tommy Portimo"
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    title: "Tommy Portimo"
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    title: "Tommy Portimo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Portimo"
    title: "Tommy Portimo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Portimo"
    title: "Tommy Portimo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Portimo"
    title: "Tommy Portimo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Portimo"
    title: "Tommy Portimo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95"
    title: "טומי פורטימו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Portimo"
    title: "Tommy Portimo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Portimo"
    title: "Tommy Portimo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Portimo"
    title: "Tommy Portimo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Portimo"
    title: "Tommy Portimo"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/051b4cb9-2fc5-46d6-af1f-4560e0807419"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump