# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-bataan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:47:55.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-bataan"
name: "Joe Bataan"
slug: "joe-bataan"
description: "Bataan Nitollano, also known as Joe Bataan, is a Filipino-American Latin soul singer, songwriter and musician best known world-wide and in the Hispanic and Latino music scene as the \"King of Latin Soul\"."
tagline: "Filipino-African American Latin soul musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Bataan.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: "1942-11-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.75
  momentum:             1.431170601144717
  historical:           7.777942666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7598608/"
    handle:    "nm7598608"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7ME0heqob2B32S9ofWhOyU"
    handle:    "7ME0heqob2B32S9ofWhOyU"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.joebataanmusic.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/19600"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "چو باتان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bataan"
    title: "Joe Bataan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bataan"
    title: "Joe Bataan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bataan"
    title: "Joe Bataan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bataan"
    title: "Joe Bataan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bataan"
    title: "Joe Bataan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/de7d54d7-0fce-4fb9-84f0-6fee794335d2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71915"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3065357"
    title: "Joe Bataan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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