# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paulinho-da-costa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:20:58.922Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paulinho-da-costa"
name: "Paulinho da Costa"
slug: "paulinho-da-costa"
description: "Paulo Roberto da Costa, popularly known as Paulinho da Costa, is a Brazilian percussionist. Beginning his career as a samba musician in Brazil, he moved to the United States in the early 1970s and worked with Brazilian bandleader Sérgio Mendes."
tagline: "Brazilian musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paulinho_da_Costa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.817744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0196070/"
    handle:    "nm0196070"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4GkZsIFa4lKHy9e2MuqwIs"
    handle:    "4GkZsIFa4lKHy9e2MuqwIs"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://paulinho.com"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "باولينيو دا كوستا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_Da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho Da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF"
    title: "パウリーニョ・ダ・コスタ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "파울리뉴 다 코스타"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_Da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho Da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinho_Da_Costa"
    title: "Paulinho Da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1953699"
    title: "Paulinho da Costa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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