# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mongo-santamaria
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:39:49.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mongo-santamaria"
name: "Mongo Santamaría"
slug: "mongo-santamaria"
description: "Ramón \"Mongo\" Santamaría Rodríguez was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga and boogaloo dance crazes of the 1960s. His biggest hit was his rendition of Herbie Hancock's \"Watermelon Man\", which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. From the 1970s, he recorded mainly salsa and Latin jazz, before retiring in the late 1990s."
tagline: "Cuban musician (1917–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mongo_Santamaria_1969.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1917-04-07"
deathDate: "2003-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.23
  momentum:             2.816326530612245
  historical:           19.85512133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763222/"
    handle:    "nm0763222"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2oVwztjpHpJlAvlVVuqVa0"
    handle:    "2oVwztjpHpJlAvlVVuqVa0"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مونجو سانتاماريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Монго Сантамария"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "몽고 산타마리아"
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    title: "Mongo Santamaria"
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    title: "Mongo Santamaría"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сантамария, Монго"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mongo Santamaria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96%D1%8F"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Mongo Santamaría"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump