The Most Famous
MUSICIANS from Myanmar (Burma)
This page contains a list of the greatest Burmese Musicians. The pantheon dataset contains 3,175 Musicians, 1 of which were born in Myanmar (Burma). This makes Myanmar (Burma) the birth place of the 80th most number of Musicians behind Kenya, and Panama.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burmese Musicians of all time. This list of famous Burmese Musicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nick Drake (1948 - 1974)
With an HPI of 55.15, Nick Drake is the most famous Burmese Musician. His biography has been translated into 43 different languages on wikipedia.
Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Cambridge. His debut album, Five Leaves Left, was released in 1969, and was followed by two more albums, Bryter Layter (1971) and Pink Moon (1972). While Drake did not reach a wide audience during his brief lifetime, his music found critical acclaim and he gradually received wider recognition following his death. Drake suffered from depression and was reluctant to perform in front of live audiences. Upon completion of Pink Moon, he withdrew from both performance and recording, retreating to his parents' home in rural Warwickshire. On 25 November 1974, Drake was found dead at the age of 26 due to an overdose of antidepressants. Drake's music remained available through the mid-1970s, but the 1979 release of the retrospective album Fruit Tree allowed his back catalogue to be reassessed. Drake has come to be credited as an influence on numerous artists, including Robert Smith of the Cure, Peter Buck of R.E.M., Kate Bush, Paul Weller, Aimee Mann, Beck, Robyn Hitchcock and the Black Crowes. The first Drake biography in English appeared in 1997; it was followed in 1999 by the documentary film A Stranger Among Us.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Burmese musicians born between 1948 and 1948. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Burmese musicians include Nick Drake.
