# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joaquin-clerch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:12:56.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joaquin-clerch"
name: "Joaquín Clerch"
slug: "joaquin-clerch"
description: "Joaquín Clerch is a Cuban classical guitarist and composer. He was a close friend and protégé of Cuban guitarist and composer Leo Brouwer. Clerch's composition Yemaya won first prize in both the 1987 National Cuban Composition Competition and the 1987 Toronto International Guitar Competition. As of 2012, he resides in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he is a Professor of Guitar at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf."
tagline: "Cuban musician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1965-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.80486
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Thi0EndLEcRkUOx66BUEc"
    handle:    "4Thi0EndLEcRkUOx66BUEc"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joaquinclerch.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2127963"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "چواكوين كليرتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Clerch"
    title: "Joaquín Clerch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Clerch"
    title: "Joaquín Clerch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Clerch"
    title: "Joaquín Clerch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Clerch"
    title: "Joaquín Clerch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Clerch"
    title: "Joaquín Clerch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5c9374bd-2e86-4739-9f4c-b672a9b2b1ce"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1690885"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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