# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicomedes-santa-cruz
# Generated: 2026-08-16T00:20:02.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicomedes-santa-cruz"
name: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz"
slug: "nicomedes-santa-cruz"
description: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz Gamarra was a Peruvian singer, songwriter and musicologist. He was primarily a decimista, a singer of décimas. He researched most forms of Afro-Peruvian music and dance, becoming the leading ethnomusicologist in Peru."
tagline: "Peruvian musician (1925–1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicomedes_Santa_Cruz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-06-04"
deathDate: "1992-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.37
  momentum:             6.489366616037974
  historical:           8.861668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nicomedessantacruz.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "نيكوميديس سانتا كروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_Santa_Cruz"
    title: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_Santa_Cruz"
    title: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_Santa_Cruz"
    title: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_Santa_Cruz"
    title: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_Santa_Cruz"
    title: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_Santa_Cruz"
    title: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "نیکومدس سانتا کروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomedes_Santa_Cruz"
    title: "Nicomedes Santa Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/2e15850c-3930-4e25-8cfa-5bbd1a406dfe"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3780177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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