# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-pinera
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:40:30.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-pinera"
name: "Mike Pinera"
slug: "mike-pinera"
description: "Carlos Michael Pinera was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer who started professionally in the late 1960s with the group Blues Image, which had a number 4 hit in 1970 with their song \"Ride Captain Ride\". After the breakup of that group, he joined Iron Butterfly, and later formed the group Ramatam. Pinera was then the founding member of the band New Cactus, a later incarnation of the band Cactus. He was the lead guitarist for Alice Cooper from 1980 to 1982."
tagline: "American guitarist (1948–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Pinera_at_Lawrenceburg_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-09-29"
deathDate: "2024-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.39827733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684089/"
    handle:    "nm0684089"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7o55DoHoctCuBWn1iKvB08"
    handle:    "7o55DoHoctCuBWn1iKvB08"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.realrock.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/533034"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ميك پينيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA"
    title: "Пинера, Майк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/77f50130-d3a0-4813-858f-08c0d7c75438"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1748008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3040136"
    title: "Mike Pinera"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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