The Most Famous

SINGERS from Suriname

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This page contains a list of the greatest Surinamer Singers. The pantheon dataset contains 4,381 Singers, 1 of which were born in Suriname. This makes Suriname the birth place of the 128th most number of Singers behind Nepal, and Kenya.

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

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1. Jeangu Macrooy (b. 1993)

With an HPI of 29.70, Jeangu Macrooy is the most famous Surinamer Singer.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.

Jeangu Macrooy (Dutch pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ːˈɡy maːˈkroːi]; born 6 November 1993) is a Surinamese singer-songwriter. He was born in Paramaribo and has been living in the Netherlands in the eastern city Enschede in the region Twente since 2014. Macrooy's music is described as modern soul. His audience is in the Netherlands, Suriname, and increasingly in Belgium, France and Germany. He was due to represent host nation the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam with the song "Grow", but the contest was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, he represented the country in the 2021 contest with "Birth of a New Age".

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Surinamer singers born between 1993 and 1993. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Surinamer singers include Jeangu Macrooy.

Living Surinamer Singers

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