# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/guillermo-portabales
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:37:26.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/guillermo-portabales"
name: "Guillermo Portabales"
slug: "guillermo-portabales"
description: "Guillermo Portabales was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized the guajira style of Cuban music from the 1930s through the 1960s. His languid, melancholy, intensely lyrical guajiras and his elegant, stylish singing made him popular throughout Latin America, where he is still revered."
tagline: "Cuban songwriter, guitarist (1911–1970)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1911-04-06"
deathDate: "1970-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.688446666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/348928"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جويليرمو پورتاباليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Portabales"
    title: "Guillermo Portabales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Portabales"
    title: "Guillermo Portabales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Portabales"
    title: "Guillermo Portabales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Portabales"
    title: "Guillermo Portabales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Portabales"
    title: "Guillermo Portabales"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%88_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3"
    title: "گوییرمو پورتابالس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ea562209-d706-401a-8b18-0e832980aae4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919666"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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