# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norma-tanega
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:16:48.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norma-tanega"
name: "Norma Tanega"
slug: "norma-tanega"
description: "Norma Cecilia Tanega was an American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician. In the 1960s, she had a hit with the single \"Walkin' My Cat Named Dog\" and wrote songs for Dusty Springfield and other prominent musicians. In later decades, Tanega worked mostly as a percussionist, playing various styles of music in the bands Baboonz, hybridVigor, and Ceramic Ensemble. She also wrote \"You're Dead\", which was used as the theme song of the film What We Do in the Shadows and the TV series of the same name."
tagline: "American folk/pop singer (1939-2019)"
gender: "female"
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: "1939-01-30"
deathDate: "2019-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.014246666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0972600/"
    handle:    "nm0972600"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/852942"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "نورما تانيجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Tanega"
    title: "Norma Tanega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Tanega"
    title: "Norma Tanega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Tanega"
    title: "Norma Tanega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Tanega"
    title: "Norma Tanega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Tanega"
    title: "Norma Tanega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6afd770e-8d2a-4243-b1fc-d9c22f11e428"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7051722"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4196470"
    title: "Norma Tanega"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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