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Jaime Cuadra

Peruvian musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ6123720
Source-derived summary

Jaime Cuadra is a Peruvian singer, composer, music producer, and filmmaker who is known for a number of achievements, including:

Music production: Cuadra produced three songs for the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace. He also released the Latin jazz album Latino in 2009, which won two gold and one platinum record. Cuadra have 12 albums.

Filmmaking: Cuadra directed many video projects with his video production company and composed music for movies, short films and radio and TV advertising.

Cultural ambassador: Cuadra is a Peruvian Cultural Ambassador (Marca Perú).

CEO: Cuadra is the CEO of Quadra Audiovisuals in Florida.

Awards: Cuadra received several awards for recognition of his music career like Independent Music Awards of NY, FIAP Awards, Grand APAP, APDAYC Awards, Gold Tumi Awards, U.S.A. Congressional recognition, etc.

Background: Cuadra has a background as a rock musician, Electrónica and Jazz. In his early albums combined Latin-Pop with Afro-Peruvian music.

Biography

He went to school at Colegio San Agustín in Lima.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jaime Cuadra” is peruvian musician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jaime, Cuadra and Peruvian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-11-26. For this dossier, Jaime, Cuadra and Peruvian is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6123720. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Jaime Cuadra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.