# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/merceditas-valdes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:41:27.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/merceditas-valdes"
name: "Merceditas Valdés"
slug: "merceditas-valdes"
description: "Mercedes Valdés Granit, better known as Merceditas Valdés, was a Cuban singer who specialized in Afro-Cuban traditional music. Under the aegis of ethnomusicologists Fernando Ortiz and Obdulio Morales, Valdés helped popularize Afro-Cuban music throughout Latin America. In 1949, she became one of the first female Santería singers to be recorded. Her debut album was released at the start of the 1960s, when the Cuban government nationalized the record industry. She then went on hiatus before making a comeback in the 1980s with a series of albums entitled Aché, in collaboration with artists such as Frank Emilio Flynn and rumba ensemble Yoruba Andabo. She also appeared in Jane Bunnett's Spirits of Havana and continued performing until her death in 1996."
tagline: "Cuban singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merceditas_Vald%C3%A9s.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1922-09-24"
deathDate: "1996-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.611088000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7713410/"
    handle:    "nm7713410"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2283733"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merceditas_Vald%C3%A9s"
    title: "Merceditas Valdés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merceditas_Vald%C3%A9s"
    title: "Merceditas Valdés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merceditas_Vald%C3%A9s"
    title: "Merceditas Valdés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merceditas_Vald%C3%A9s"
    title: "Merceditas Valdés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merceditas_Vald%C3%A9s"
    title: "Merceditas Valdés"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3"
    title: "مرسدیتاس والدس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/47d72330-6f9c-46cc-a8c8-3b6cbbd76563"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20687478"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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