# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bobby-cruz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:02:51.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bobby-cruz"
name: "Bobby Cruz"
slug: "bobby-cruz"
description: "Bobby Cruz is a Puerto Rican salsa singer and religious minister. He was part of the duo Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz. Both Cruz and Ray became religious ministers and as such founded over 70 Christian churches during the period of about 16 years of their music's greatest popularity, before they retired from popular music."
tagline: "Puerto Rican salsa singer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-02-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.28
  momentum:             1.210762331838565
  historical:           9.037548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 9800
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/BobbyCruzOficial"
    handle:    "BobbyCruzOficial"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0JIMhbNg4VwToE3unSL3C4"
    handle:    "Bobby Cruz"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbqrxMsmJp3VqBoDIcsrsA"
    handle:    "Bobby Cruz - Topic"
    followers: 9800
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/21106"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "بوبي كروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "بوبى كروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cruz"
    title: "Bobby Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cruz"
    title: "Bobby Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cruz"
    title: "Bobby Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cruz"
    title: "Bobby Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cruz"
    title: "Bobby Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cruz"
    title: "Bobby Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Cruz"
    title: "Bobby Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6dfabe49-b3fe-41c6-b45b-c3a25e6288a1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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