# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-ponce
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:15:52.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-ponce"
name: "Manuel Ponce"
slug: "manuel-ponce"
description: "Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar, known in Mexico as Manuel M. Ponce, was a 20th-century Mexican composer, music educator, and scholar whose work connected the concert scene with a mostly forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore. Many of his compositions are strongly influenced by the harmonies and form of traditional songs."
tagline: "Mexican composer (1886–1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Monumento_a_Manuel_M._Ponce_en_la_Exedra_de_Aguascalientes_01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1882-12-08"
deathDate: "1948-04-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.58305466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690284/"
    handle:    "nm0690284"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump