# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tata-guines
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:34:59.967Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tata-guines"
name: "Tata Güines"
slug: "tata-guines"
description: "Federico Arístides Soto Alejo, better known as Tata Güines, was a Cuban percussionist, bandleader and arranger. He was widely regarded as a master of the conga drum, and alongside Carlos \"Patato\" Valdés, influential in the development of contemporary Afro-Cuban music, including Afro-Cuban jazz. He specialized in a form of improvisation known as descarga, a format in which he recorded numerous albums throughout the years with Cachao, Frank Emilio Flynn, Estrellas de Areito, Alfredo Rodríguez and Jane Bunnett, among others. In the 1990s he released two critically acclaimed albums as a leader: Pasaporte and Aniversario. His composition \"Pa' gozar\" has become a standard of the descarga genre."
tagline: "Cuban musician (1930–2008)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1930-06-30"
deathDate: "2008-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.85
  momentum:             1.765258215962441
  historical:           9.414184
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0351513/"
    handle:    "nm0351513"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "تاتا جوينيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_G%C3%BCines"
    title: "Tata Güines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_G%C3%BCines"
    title: "Tata Güines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_G%C3%BCines"
    title: "Tata Güines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_G%C3%BCines"
    title: "Tata Güines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Guines"
    title: "Tata Guines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_G%C3%BCines"
    title: "Tata Güines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_G%C3%BCines"
    title: "Tata Güines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/51a81701-6cf0-4ec1-8ef3-209a26d91a64"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2683085"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1631938"
    title: "Tata Güines"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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