# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tongo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:06:44.595Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tongo"
name: "Tongo"
slug: "tongo"
description: "José Abelardo Gutiérrez Alanya, known by his stage name Tongo, was a Peruvian singer and entertainer. He began his music career in 1980 as a singer of Peruvian cumbia, a type of popular music. Tongo was largely unknown outside of his musical niche until his song \"La pituca\", whose theme focuses on social status and inequality, attained national notability at the start of the twenty-first century. In 2010, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio listed Tongo as one of the most popular artists in Peruvian show business."
tagline: "Peruvian singer (1957–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tongo_CC.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-09-24"
deathDate: "2023-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           69.47
  momentum:             1.252006420545746
  historical:           9.770238666666668
  currentAttention:     28.4
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 41
totalFollowers: 1150000
platforms:
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@tongoperu"
    handle:    "tongoperu"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Tongo-1165144186889992"
    handle:    "Tongo-1165144186889992"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5718512/"
    handle:    "nm5718512"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIm5dgSJPmVBkz7CKuGtwFQ"
    handle:    "@tongooficial"
    followers: 1150000
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/6141385"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A)"
    title: "تونغو دومبيا (مغني)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7_(%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88)"
    title: "تونجو دومبيا (يوتيوبر من بيرو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongo"
    title: "Tongo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongo_(S%C3%A4nger)"
    title: "Tongo (Sänger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongo_(entertainer)"
    title: "Tongo (entertainer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongo"
    title: "Tongo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88"
    title: "تونگو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongo_(artiest)"
    title: "Tongo (artiest)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongo"
    title: "Tongo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b600d9e8-b89b-4ee5-a2af-79722d802f09"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1663699"
    title: "Osahon Tongo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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