# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arsenio-rodriguez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:41:58.414Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arsenio-rodriguez"
name: "Arsenio Rodríguez"
slug: "arsenio-rodriguez"
description: "Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician, composer and bandleader. He played the tres, as well as the tumbadora, and he specialized in son, rumba and other Afro-Cuban music styles. In the 1940s and 1950s Rodríguez established the conjunto format and contributed to the development of the son montuno, the basic template of modern-day salsa. He claimed to be the true creator of the mambo and was an important as well as a prolific composer who wrote nearly two hundred songs."
tagline: "Cuban musician (1911–1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Conjunto_de_Arsenio_Rodr%C3%ADguez.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1911-08-31"
deathDate: "1970-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.36
  momentum:             12.26530612244898
  historical:           12.45831066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ارسینیو رودریقیز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arsenio Rodríguez"
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    title: "Arsenio Rodríguez"
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    title: "Arsenio Rodríguez (Musiker)"
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    title: "Arsenio Rodríguez"
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    title: "Arsenio Rodríguez"
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    title: "Arsenio Rodríguez"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenio_Rodriguez"
    title: "Arsenio Rodriguez"
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    title: "Родригес, Арсенио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump