# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-gonzalez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:53:55.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-gonzalez"
name: "Jerry Gonzalez"
slug: "jerry-gonzalez"
description: "Jerry González was an American bandleader, trumpeter and percussionist of Puerto Rican descent. \nTogether with his brother, bassist Andy González, Jerry Gonzalez played an important role in the development of Latin Jazz during the late 20th century. During the 1970s, both brothers played alongside Eddie Palmieri and in Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and from 1980 to 2018 they directed The Fort Apache Band. From 2000 to 2018, Jerry González resided in Madrid, where he fronted Los Piratas del Flamenco and El Comando de la Clave. In October 2018, he died of a heart attack after a fire in his home in Madrid."
tagline: "American musician (1949–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Gonzalez.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: "1949-06-05"
deathDate: "2018-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.22
  momentum:             0.3453453453453453
  historical:           10.55813733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JerryFortApache"
    handle:    "JerryFortApache"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jerrygonzalezjazz/"
    handle:    "jerrygonzalezjazz"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/jerrygonzalezjazz"
    handle:    "jerrygonzalezjazz"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0328235/"
    handle:    "nm0328235"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جيري غونزاليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جيرى جونزاليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Gonz%C3%A1lez"
    title: "Jerry González"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Gonzalez"
    title: "Jerry Gonzalez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Gonz%C3%A1lez"
    title: "Jerry González"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Gonz%C3%A1lez"
    title: "Jerry González"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Gonz%C3%A1lez"
    title: "Jerry González"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Гонсалес, Джерри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Gonz%C3%A1lez"
    title: "Jerry González"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Gonzalez"
    title: "Jerry Gonzalez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cc704a1c-ccd9-47b6-96f3-ed317c79a493"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1300344"
    title: "Jerry Gonzalez"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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