# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/justino-diaz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:57:05.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/justino-diaz"
name: "Justino Díaz"
slug: "justino-diaz"
description: "Justino Díaz is a Puerto Rican operatic bass-baritone. In 1963, Díaz won an annual contest held at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, becoming the first Puerto Rican to obtain such an honor and as a consequence, made his Metropolitan debut in October 1963 in Verdi's Rigoletto as Monterone."
tagline: "Puerto Rican opera singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Justino_Diaz_2021_Kennedy_Center_Honors_(cropped).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: "1940-01-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.78
  momentum:             1.993569131832798
  historical:           7.480094666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0246642/"
    handle:    "nm0246642"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1636340"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justino_D%C3%ADaz"
    title: "Justino Díaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justino_D%C3%ADaz"
    title: "Justino Díaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justino_D%C3%ADaz"
    title: "Justino Díaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justino_D%C3%ADaz"
    title: "Justino Díaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justino_D%C3%ADaz"
    title: "Justino Díaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Justino_D%C3%ADaz"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/960b8f33-f87b-4086-8a07-839f6cf43640"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3190550"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1365727"
    title: "Justino Díaz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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