# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucho-gatica
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:10:13.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucho-gatica"
name: "Lucho Gatica"
slug: "lucho-gatica"
description: "Luis Enrique Gatica Silva, better known as Lucho Gatica was a Chilean-born Mexican bolero singer, film actor, and television host known as \"the King of Bolero\". He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential exponents of the bolero and one of the most popular of all time worldwide. It is estimated that Gatica released more than 90 recordings. He toured across the world, performing in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He was the uncle of the record producer Humberto Gatica."
tagline: "Chilean musician (1928-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lucho_Gatica_(2011).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-08-11"
deathDate: "2018-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.304904816442898
  historical:           16.82042266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309674/"
    handle:    "nm0309674"
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lucho Gatica"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lucho Gatica"
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    title: "Lucho Gatica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucho_Gatica"
    title: "Lucho Gatica"
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    title: "Lucho Gatica"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump