# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernando-villalona
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:09:03.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernando-villalona"
name: "Fernando Villalona"
slug: "fernando-villalona"
description: "Ramón Fernando Villalona Évora, known professionally as Fernando Villalona, is a Dominican merengue singer. Considered to be one of the most important merengue artists in the genre's history, Villalona began singing in the early 1970s; his popularity started to grow by the late 1970s and has not declined ever since. He is the first Dominican artist to call himself \"El Mayimbe\", with the second being Antony Santos."
tagline: "Dominican Republic merengue singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fernando_Villalona_adjusted.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955-05-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.870344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/fervillalona"
    handle:    "fervillalona"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/elmayimbe/"
    handle:    "elmayimbe"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/fernandovillalonaelmayimbe"
    handle:    "fernandovillalonaelmayimbe"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.elmayimbe.com.do"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/419928"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "فرناندو فيلالونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Villalona"
    title: "Fernando Villalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Villalona"
    title: "Fernando Villalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Villalona"
    title: "Fernando Villalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Villalona"
    title: "Fernando Villalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88_%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "فرناندو وییالونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e44ef12c-b530-40f6-bda8-185c575fa4a8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504583"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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