# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frankie-ruiz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:36:15.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frankie-ruiz"
name: "Frankie Ruiz"
slug: "frankie-ruiz"
description: "José Antonio Torresola Ruiz, better known as Frankie Ruiz, was an American singer. He was a major figure in the salsa romántica subgenre that was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s."
tagline: "Puerto rican salsa singer, songwriter (1958–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frankie_Ruiz_(80s_%26_90s).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1958-03-10"
deathDate: "1998-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.40796266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "فرانكي رويز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "فرانكى رويز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Ruiz"
    title: "Frankie Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Ruiz"
    title: "Frankie Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Ruiz"
    title: "Frankie Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Ruiz"
    title: "Frankie Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Ruiz"
    title: "Frankie Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Ruiz"
    title: "Frankie Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "フランキー・ルイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Ruiz"
    title: "Frankie Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Ruiz"
    title: "Frankie Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_Torresola_Ruiz"
    title: "José Antonio Torresola Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B2"
    title: "فرینکی روئیز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/98017692-63e0-485d-93c4-0306e53b3527"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711406"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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