# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlos-vega
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:59:43.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlos-vega"
name: "Carlos Vega"
slug: "carlos-vega"
description: "Carlos Vega was a Cuban-born Los Angeles-based session drummer best known for his performances with James Taylor. As a part of the L.A. studio scene from the late 1970s through the 1990s, Vega contributed to a wide variety of music during the rise and popularity of the California singer-songwriter movement."
tagline: "American drummer"
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: "1956-12-07"
deathDate: "1998-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.47
  momentum:             1.171399594320487
  historical:           6.679308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/294721"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "كارلوس فيجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Vega"
    title: "Carlos Vega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Vega"
    title: "Carlos Vega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Vega_(baterista_cubano)"
    title: "Carlos Vega (baterista cubano)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Vega"
    title: "Carlos Vega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Vega"
    title: "Carlos Vega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/954695db-d7e9-4569-b939-529eaaf18f5f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2939483"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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