# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chico-science
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:07:49.388Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chico-science"
name: "Chico Science"
slug: "chico-science"
description: "Francisco de Assis França, better known as Chico Science, was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the manguebeat cultural movement. He died in a car accident in 1997 in Recife, Pernambuco, at the age of 30."
tagline: "Brazilian singer-songwriter (1966−1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chico_Science_%26_Na%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Zumbi_turn%C3%AA_nos_Estados_Unidos.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-03-13"
deathDate: "1997-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.40924266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Chico_Science"
    handle:    "Chico_Science"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0989915/"
    handle:    "nm0989915"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www2.uol.com.br/JC/chicoscience/carreira.htm"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كيكو سينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "چیکو ساینس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chico_Science"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d4b0112d-f8aa-4880-a6c3-ab0ea94943a9"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716196"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1562329"
    title: "Chico Science"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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