# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-cuba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:46:55.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-cuba"
name: "Joe Cuba"
slug: "joe-cuba"
description: "Gilberto Miguel Calderón, known professionally as Joe Cuba, was an American conga drummer of Puerto Rican descent who was widely regarded as the \"Father of Latin Boogaloo\"."
tagline: "American musician (1931–2009)"
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: "1931-04-22"
deathDate: "2009-02-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.36
  momentum:             4.401544401544401
  historical:           8.776785333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/294683"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "جو كوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "جو كوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cuba"
    title: "Joe Cuba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cuba"
    title: "Joe Cuba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cuba"
    title: "Joe Cuba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cuba"
    title: "Joe Cuba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cuba"
    title: "Joe Cuba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cuba"
    title: "Joe Cuba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0cc80504-26d9-4083-943f-4cf93c854be5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935746"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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