# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rita-indiana
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:57:59.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rita-indiana"
name: "Rita Indiana"
slug: "rita-indiana"
description: "Rita Indiana Hernández Sánchez is a Dominican writer and singer-songwriter. In 2011, she was selected by the Spanish newspaper El País as one of the 100 most influential Latino personalities. Her novels prominently feature themes of queerness while the topics of her songs range from Dominican social issues to divergent sexuality. Rita Indiana has been highly recognized and awarded on the Caribbean literary scene, and her viral music success has made Indiana a household name in the Dominican Republic where she is popularly referred to as \"La Monstra\"."
tagline: "Dominican writer, composer, and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rita_Indiana_Hernadez.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1977-06-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.08
  momentum:             0.2187784867821331
  historical:           7.507022666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ritaindiana"
    handle:    "ritaindiana"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/ritaindianalamontra/"
    handle:    "ritaindianalamontra"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3687884/"
    handle:    "nm3687884"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6xjy0XOCLNmstyCRTA8lIp"
    handle:    "6xjy0XOCLNmstyCRTA8lIp"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1908620"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Indiana_Hern%C3%A1ndez"
    title: "Rita Indiana Hernández"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Indiana"
    title: "Rita Indiana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Indiana"
    title: "Rita Indiana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Indiana"
    title: "Rita Indiana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Indiana"
    title: "Rita Indiana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Indiana"
    title: "Rita Indiana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0ee75c5f-09ac-4c68-a86b-42734c461bee"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15608946"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3169924"
    title: "Rita Indiana"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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