# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugo-blanco
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:29:06.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugo-blanco"
name: "Hugo Blanco"
slug: "hugo-blanco"
description: "Hugo Blanco was a popular Venezuelan musician. He is best known as the author of \"Moliendo Café\" and other songs like \"El Burrito Sabanero\", \"Leche Condensada\", \"Luces de Caracas\", \"Sierra Nevada\" and \"Mañanita Zuliana\". \"Moliendo Café\", written in 1958 when Hugo Blanco was only 18 years old, has become one of the most recognized Venezuelan songs in the world."
tagline: "Venezuelan musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugo_Blanco_2010.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-09-25"
deathDate: "2015-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.57
  momentum:             0.5863192182410424
  historical:           8.8351
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3718528/"
    handle:    "nm3718528"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/903793"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "هوغو بلانكو (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "هوجو بلانكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Blanco_(musician)"
    title: "Hugo Blanco (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Blanco_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Hugo Blanco (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Blanco"
    title: "Hugo Blanco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Blanco_(musicista)"
    title: "Hugo Blanco (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Blanco_(takichaq)"
    title: "Hugo Blanco (takichaq)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Blanco_(musician)"
    title: "Hugo Blanco (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eabad169-8648-40d0-b7fa-3ac27884612e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1122967"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/100311"
    title: "Hugo Blanco"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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