# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rico-blanco
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:07:43.211Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rico-blanco"
name: "Rico Blanco"
slug: "rico-blanco"
description: "Rico Rene Granados Blanco is a Filipino singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor, endorser and entrepreneur. He began his career as one of the founding members, and served as the chief songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and keyboardist of the Filipino rock band Rivermaya from 1994 until 2007, and has been a solo artist since 2008."
tagline: "Filipino musician (born 1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rico_Blanco_(2009)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1973-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           72.85
  momentum:             19.8090692124105
  historical:           6.823884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 860000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ricoblanco"
    handle:    "ricoblanco"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ricoblanconews"
    handle:    "ricoblanconews"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6l880dxsvN2x5wiceaG6D0"
    handle:    "6l880dxsvN2x5wiceaG6D0"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChrJW3VpxRqZjx9CLewlaog"
    handle:    "@ricoblancotv"
    followers: 860000
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2695964"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "ريكو بلانكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "ریکو بلانکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Blanco"
    title: "Rico Blanco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Blanco"
    title: "Rico Blanco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Blanco"
    title: "Rico Blanco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Blanco"
    title: "Rico Blanco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b146f17c-6e7a-4616-8baf-ee598e462570"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7332251"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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