# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/santiago-chalar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:40.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/santiago-chalar"
name: "Santiago Chalar"
slug: "santiago-chalar"
description: "Carlos Alfredo Paravís Salaverry, known as Santiago Chalar, was a Uruguayan physician traumatologist, poet, songwriter, musician, guitarist and singer. He studied music and medicine. He used an alias Santiago to pay homage to a friend of his who died in a plane accident and Chalar was one of his ancestors last name. In his artistic career he achieved recognition and fame. He obtained some music awards. He is considered one of the best Uruguayan folk music songwriters and singers."
tagline: "Uruguayan physician, writer and musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Santiago_Chalar1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-09-25"
deathDate: "1994-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.81
  momentum:             0.2261306532663317
  historical:           5.281318666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Chalar"
    title: "Santiago Chalar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%BA%D9%88_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "سانتياغو شالار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "سانتياجو شالار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eba7ba3e-d08f-4a82-8305-4c54bc798f4d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Chalar"
    title: "Santiago Chalar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%88_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "سانتیاگو چالار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6120864"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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