# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rafael-escalona-martinez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:15:51.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rafael-escalona-martinez"
name: "Rafael Escalona Martínez"
slug: "rafael-escalona-martinez"
description: "Rafael Calixto Escalona Martínez was a Colombian songwriter. He is considered one of the best vallenato songwriters of all time, though he could not play an instrument and rarely sang. He was a co-founder of the Vallenato Legend Festival, along with Consuelo Araújo and Alfonso López Michelsen."
tagline: "Compositor, Pintor, Escritor, Diseñador"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mrrafaelescalona.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1926-05-26"
deathDate: "2009-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.74
  momentum:             0.8372770294867129
  historical:           12.37383866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/fundacion.rafaelescalona"
    handle:    "fundacion.rafaelescalona"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رافائل اسکالونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Escalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Escalona"
    title: "Rafael Escalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Escalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رافائل اسکالونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Escalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Escalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "רפאל אסקלונה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Escalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Escalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Escalona"
    title: "Rafael Escalona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rafael_Escalona"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3112679"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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