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The Most Famous

MUSICIANS from Kuwait

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kuwaiti Musicians. The pantheon dataset contains 2,662 Musicians, 1 of which were born in Kuwait. This makes Kuwait the birth place of the 89th most number of Musicians behind Niger and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kuwaiti Musicians of all time. This list of famous Kuwaiti Musicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Mishary Rashid Alafasy (1976 - )

With an HPI of 45.41, Mishary Rashid Alafasy is the most famous Kuwaiti Musician.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.

Mishary bin Rashid Alafasy (Arabic: مشاري بن راشد العفاسي) is a Kuwaiti qāriʾ (reciter of the Quran), imam, preacher, and nasheed artist. He studied in the Islamic University of Madinah's College of Qur'an, specializing in the ten qira'at and tafsir. Alafasy has released nasheed albums. He usually recites in Arabic, but he has also recited nasheeds in English and French.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as musicians born between 1976 and 1976. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living musicians include Mishary Rashid Alafasy.

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