# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alejo-duran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:59:21.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alejo-duran"
name: "Alejo Durán"
slug: "alejo-duran"
description: "Gilberto Alejandro Durán Díaz, known as Alejo Durán or \"El Negro Grande\", was a Colombian songwriter, singer, and accordionist.\nDurán won the accordionist competition of the first Vallenato Legend Festival in 1968, and in 1985 was awarded a Special Congo at the Barranquilla Carnival.\nHe is considered one of the greatest vallenato musicians."
tagline: "Colombian musician (1919–1989)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1919-02-09"
deathDate: "1989-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.9
  momentum:             1.473684210526316
  historical:           6.843848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Il53CyCEjMsfXlqwfdT22"
    handle:    "Alejandro Durán"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2433117"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "أليغو دوران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Dur%C3%A1n"
    title: "Alejandro Durán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Dur%C3%A1n"
    title: "Alejandro Durán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejo_Dur%C3%A1n"
    title: "Alejo Durán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Dur%C3%A1n"
    title: "Alejandro Durán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Dur%C3%A1n"
    title: "Alejandro Durán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/435fcd78-78b6-4cde-b23e-d24cd583dc99"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2890515"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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