# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/perez-prado
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:44:53.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/perez-prado"
name: "Pérez Prado"
slug: "perez-prado"
description: "Dámaso Pérez Prado was a Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger who popularized the mambo in the 1950s. His big band adaptation of the danzón-mambo proved to be a worldwide success with hits such as \"Mambo No. 5\", earning him the nickname \"The King of the Mambo\". In 1955, Pérez Prado and his orchestra topped the charts in the US and UK with a mambo cover of Louiguy's \"Cherry Pink \". He frequently made brief appearances in films, primarily of the rumberas genre, and his music was featured in films such as La Dolce Vita."
tagline: "Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger (1917–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Perez_prado_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1916-12-11"
deathDate: "1989-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.62903733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0702000"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump