# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chucho-valdes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:07:27.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chucho-valdes"
name: "Chucho Valdés"
slug: "chucho-valdes"
description: "Dionisio Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger whose career spans over 50 years. An original member of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, in 1973 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands."
tagline: "Cuban musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chucho_Vald%C3%A9s_at_Istanbul_Jazz_Festival_20250701_(13).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-10-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.78784266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883809/"
    handle:    "nm0883809"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.chucho-valdes.com"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "تشوتشو ڤالديس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Вальдес, Чучо"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chucho Valdés"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump