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Carlos Vives
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Colombian singer
Film & TV
Is a Colombian singer, actor and composer, recognized in Latin America and other parts of the world for mixing Colombian music such as cumbia and vallenato with pop and rock. He has won two Grammy Awards and 14 Latin Grammy Awards.
Known for
- Hombres G: The Best Years of Our Lives — Self2026
- Festival de Viña del Mar 2025: Carlos Vives2025
- Carlos Vives en compañía2024
- Back to Escalona2023
- My Music, My Roots: Carlos Vives — Self2023
- Carlos Vives y amigos2023
- The Low Tone Club — Amaranto Molina2023
- Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl — Self2022
- Martínez y hermanos — Self - Guest2022
- Latin Grammy Celebrates: Them and Their Music — Self - Host2021
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Colombia
- Active from
- 1961
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 647,116
- Total plays
- 8,636,329
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Before he graduated from Jorge Tadeo Lozano's University with a publicist degree, singer Carlos Vives joined different bands and participated in several plays. In 1982, the artist got a role in the Colombian TV series Tiempo Sin Huella, starting his successful acting career, later extending his professional skills to the Puerto Rican television. After participating in some teen programs as a singer/actor, he got the main role in the telenovela (soap opera) "Gallito Ramírez," which made him a fa
Key facts
- Born
- Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo , ( 1961-08-07 ) 7 August 1961 (age 64) , Santa Marta , Colombia
- Genres
- Vallenato cumbia porro champeta rock Latin pop bambuco dance-pop reggaeton tropical music
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter actor
- Years active
- 1978–present
- Labels
- FM Discos Y Cintas Sony Sonolux Gaira Música Local PolyGram EMI Virgin
- Website
- carlosvives .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carlos
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Colombia
- Place of birth
- Santa Marta
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- cumbia
- Instrument
- harmonica
- Record label
- Virgin Records
- Official website
- www.carlosvives.com
- Image
- Carlos Vives - World Economic Forum on Latin America 2010.jpg
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- Commons category
- Carlos Vives
- date of birth
- 1961-08-07
- Commons gallery
- Carlos Vives
- birth name
- Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- social media followers
- 5318776
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Carlos Vives, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo (born 7 August 1961) is a Colombian singer, songwriter and actor.
One of the best-selling Latin music artists ever, with over 20 million records sold worldwide, Vives is regarded as one of the most influential artists in the world as he has progressively helped vallenato gain popularity globally and for his interpretation of traditional music styles, such as cumbia, champeta, bambuco and porro, with Latin pop, rock, reggaeton, dance-pop and tropical music.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carlos Vives” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.