# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomoyasu-hotei
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:32:58.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomoyasu-hotei"
name: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
slug: "tomoyasu-hotei"
description: "Tomoyasu Hotei , also known simply as Hotei, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and actor. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Hotei claims record sales of over 40 million copies and has collaborated with artists from around the world. Hotei first rose to prominence in the 1980s as the guitarist for Boøwy, one of Japan's most popular rock bands, before starting a solo career."
tagline: "Japanese guitarist, singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tomoyasu_Hotei_Paaspop_2017.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1962-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           71.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.70017066666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 197000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/HOTEI_STAFF"
    handle:    "HOTEI_STAFF"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/hotei_official/"
    handle:    "hotei_official"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/HOTEI.world"
    handle:    "HOTEI.world"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396231/"
    handle:    "nm0396231"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4cShXyYZpvnVZYeE3Oukns"
    handle:    "4cShXyYZpvnVZYeE3Oukns"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://jp.hotei.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW7yCyi-5CguSJUvoqPm4qQ"
    handle:    "@hotei"
    followers: 197000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A"
    title: "توموياسو هوتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "توموياسو هوتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA%DB%8C"
    title: "تومویاسو هوتی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%83%E8%A2%8B%E5%AF%85%E6%B3%B0"
    title: "布袋寅泰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%B8%ED%85%8C%EC%9D%B4_%ED%86%A0%EB%AA%A8%EC%95%BC%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "호테이 토모야스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%81%D1%83"
    title: "Хотэй, Томоясу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyasu_Hotei"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%83%E8%A2%8B%E5%AF%85%E6%B3%B0"
    title: "布袋寅泰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%83%E8%A2%8B%E5%AF%85%E6%B3%B0"
    title: "布袋寅泰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5565ae4b-bb20-48a4-a8b0-dfdeb53b555a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699757"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66591"
    title: "Tomoyasu Hotei"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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