# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mario-bauza-cardenas
# Generated: 2026-08-16T02:10:49.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mario-bauza-cardenas"
name: "Mario Bauzá Cárdenas"
slug: "mario-bauza-cardenas"
description: "Prudencio Mario Bauzá Cárdenas was an Afro-Cuban jazz bandleader, and jazz musician. He was among the first to introduce Cuban music to the United States by bringing Cuban musical styles to the New York City jazz scene. While Cuban bands had had popular jazz tunes in their repertoire for years, Bauzá's composition \"Tangá\" was the first piece to blend jazz harmony and arranging technique, with jazz soloists and Afro-Cuban rhythms. It is considered the first true Afro-Cuban jazz tune."
tagline: "Cuban-American musician, composer, and founder of Afro-Cuban Jazz"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mario_Bauz%C3%A1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1911-04-28"
deathDate: "1993-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.697590666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2356046/"
    handle:    "nm2356046"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/408342"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ماريو باوزا كارديناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bauz%C3%A1"
    title: "Mario Bauzá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bauz%C3%A1"
    title: "Mario Bauzá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bauz%C3%A1"
    title: "Mario Bauzá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bauz%C3%A1"
    title: "Mario Bauzá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bauz%C3%A1"
    title: "Mario Bauzá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bauz%C3%A1"
    title: "Mario Bauzá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/da951c78-737f-4e7a-b7fd-17297bdae3c0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722618"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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