# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horacio-salinas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:25:36.997Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horacio-salinas"
name: "Horacio Salinas"
slug: "horacio-salinas"
description: "Horacio Salinas Álvarez is a Chilean guitarist and composer. He is cofounder and musical director of the Chilean group Inti-Illimani Histórico. He has a huge repertory of compositions that involves folk, Andean music, protest music, world music, contemporary classical music and many Latin American styles and fusions. In 1973, his group was touring in Europe when Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile, after which they had to stay in exile for years. He has played with many international musicians notably the Australian classical guitarist John Williams."
tagline: "Chilean musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horacio_salinas_berkeley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.560117333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2196334/"
    handle:    "nm2196334"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.intiillimani.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هوراسيو ساليناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هوراسيو ساليناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_Salinas"
    title: "Horacio Salinas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_Salinas"
    title: "Horacio Salinas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AB%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "اوراثیو سالیناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_Salinas_(musicista)"
    title: "Horacio Salinas (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_Salinas"
    title: "Horacio Salinas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c394f7ff-e534-49b3-af9c-55e546ff86b2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1773202"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55123"
    title: "Horacio Salinas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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