# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willi-tokarev
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:08:44.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willi-tokarev"
name: "Willi Tokarev"
slug: "willi-tokarev"
description: "Willi Ivanovich Tokarev was a Russian-American singer-songwriter. In the 1980s, he became famous throughout the Soviet Union for his songs about life as a Russian émigré in Brighton Beach, New York."
tagline: "Russian and former expatriate Russian-American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Villi_Tokarev_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-11-11"
deathDate: "2019-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           63.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.20769466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 4100
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/WilliTokarev"
    handle:    "WilliTokarev"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/willi_tokarev/"
    handle:    "willi_tokarev"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1253485/"
    handle:    "nm1253485"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7eHeugxkw3kJIMOHi4IUKs"
    handle:    "7eHeugxkw3kJIMOHi4IUKs"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://willitokarev.ru"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyKKHkIq5iBWYHGnv1Vr6xA"
    handle:    "@tokarevwilli"
    followers: 4100
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/483710"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%DA%A4"
    title: "ويلى توكاريڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Iwanowitsch_Tokarew"
    title: "Willi Iwanowitsch Tokarew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Tokarev"
    title: "Willi Tokarev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vili_T%C3%B3karev"
    title: "Vili Tókarev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villi_Tokarev"
    title: "Villi Tokarev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Tokarev"
    title: "Willi Tokarev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villijs_Tokarevs"
    title: "Villijs Tokarevs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Токарев, Вилли Иванович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Tokarev"
    title: "Willi Tokarev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%94%D0%B2_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Токарєв Віллі Іванович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8e92f56d-08e0-4e4e-8cc4-8835cd569e7f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4459467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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