# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valery-gaina
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:56:14.078Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valery-gaina"
name: "Valery Gaina‎"
slug: "valery-gaina"
description: "Valery Borisovich Gaina is a Soviet-born American guitarist, songwriter, composer and singer of Moldovan (Romanian) origin. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet guitarists."
tagline: "American (former Russian) musician, guitarist, composer & songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1956-07-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.81
  momentum:             1.04570100697134
  historical:           5.984669333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 9900
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/valgaina/"
    handle:    "valgaina"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/val.gaina"
    handle:    "val.gaina"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.gainamusic.com"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVwDJr3CLQz_WCQ3BYSSj-Q"
    handle:    "@valgaina"
    followers: 9900
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/490411"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Валерий Гаина"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Gaina"
    title: "Valery Gaina"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriu_G%C4%83in%C4%83"
    title: "Valeriu Găină"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гаина, Валерий Борисович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Валерій Гаїна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/931d5bae-0165-43ab-a5be-30bf181a3cf1"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3627155"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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