The Most Famous
SINGERS from Venezuela
This page contains a list of the greatest Venezuelan Singers. The pantheon dataset contains 3,528 Singers, 3 of which were born in Venezuela. This makes Venezuela the birth place of the 84th most number of Singers behind Mozambique and Senegal.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Venezuelan Singers of all time. This list of famous Venezuelan Singers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Teresa Carreño (1853 - 1917)
With an HPI of 52.54, Teresa Carreño is the most famous Venezuelan Singer. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
María Teresa Gertrudis de Jesús Carreño García (December 22, 1853 – June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, soprano, composer, and conductor. Over the course of her 54-year concert career, she became an internationally renowned virtuoso pianist and was often referred to as the "Valkyrie of the Piano". Carreño was an early adopter of the works of one of her students, American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell (1860–1908) and premiered several of his compositions across the globe. She also frequently performed the works of Norwegian composer and pianist Edvard Grieg (1843–1907). Carreño composed approximately 75 works for solo piano, voice and piano, choir and orchestra, and instrumental ensemble. Several composers dedicated their compositions to Carreño, including Amy Beach (Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor) and Edward MacDowell (Piano Concerto No. 2).
2. Simón Díaz (1928 - 2014)
With an HPI of 47.42, Simón Díaz is the 2nd most famous Venezuelan Singer. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Simón Narciso Díaz Márquez (August 8, 1928 – February 19, 2014) was a Venezuelan singer and Grammy Award-winning composer of Venezuelan music.
3. Arca (1989 - )
With an HPI of 33.80, Arca is the 3rd most famous Venezuelan Singer. Their biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Alejandra Ghersi Rodríguez (born 14 October 1989), known professionally as Arca, is a Venezuelan musician and record producer based in Barcelona, Spain. She initially began releasing music under the name of Nuuro. After attending the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Ghersi first released the EP Baron Libre (2012) under the name Arca and subsequently released the EPs Stretch 1 and Stretch 2; the latter experimented with hip hop and brought her attention from prominent music publications. She released her first two albums, Xen and Mutant, in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Her eponymous third album, Arca (2017), became the first to prominently feature her vocals. From 2020 to 2021, Ghersi released the Kick quintet, starting with the album Kick I (2020) and ending with Kick IIIII (2021); these recordings drew from styles such as IDM, reggaeton, avant-pop, techno, and ambient. Ghersi has frequently incorporated themes related to gender identity, non-binary identification, and psychosexuality in her work, particularly after coming out in 2018. Ghersi has also worked frequently with other artists as producer and collaborator. She received production credits on releases such as Kanye West's Yeezus (2013), FKA Twigs' EP2 (2013), LP1 (2014), and Björk's Vulnicura (2015), Utopia (2017). She has additionally contributed to music by artists such as Kelela, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, Planningtorock, Rosalía, Sia, Shygirl, and Lil Uzi Vert.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as singers born between 1853 and 1989. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living singers include Arca. The most famous deceased singers include Teresa Carreño and Simón Díaz. As of April 2022, 1 new singers have been added to Pantheon including Arca.
