# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luiz-gonzaga
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:01:26.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luiz-gonzaga"
name: "Luiz Gonzaga"
slug: "luiz-gonzaga"
description: "Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet and one of the most influential figures of Brazilian popular music in the twentieth century. He has been credited with having presented the rich universe of Northeastern musical genres to all of Brazil, having popularized the musical genre baião and has been called a \"revolutionary\" by Antônio Carlos Jobim. According to Caetano Veloso, he was the first significant cultural event with mass appeal in Brazil. Luiz Gonzaga received the Shell prize for Brazilian Popular Music in 1984 and was only the fourth artist to receive this prize after Pixinguinha, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Dorival Caymmi. The Luiz Gonzaga Dam was named in his honor."
tagline: "Brazilian recording artist, songwriter, singer, performing artist (1912–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Luiz_Gonzaga_(1957).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1912-12-13"
deathDate: "1989-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.38
  momentum:             0.84602731888722
  historical:           21.87930933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0327426/"
    handle:    "nm0327426"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://luizluagonzaga.com.br/"
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    title: "路易斯貢扎加"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump