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Adelaide Hall

1901 - 1993

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Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death. Early in her career, she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance; she became based in the UK after 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adelaide Hall has received more than 1,430,719 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Adelaide Hall is the 318th most popular singer (up from 2,244th in 2019), the 1,850th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,135th in 2019) and the 99th most popular American Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Adelaide Hall ranks 318 out of 4,381. Before her are Cab Calloway, Axl Rose, Théo Sarapo, Ornella Vanoni, Joey Ramone, and Antonio Cesti. After her are Željko Bebek, Carole King, Googoosh, Rod Evans, Jimmy Cliff, and Karen Carpenter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Adelaide Hall ranks 77. Before her are Stefan Wyszyński, Alice Prin, Gino Cervi, Ub Iwerks, Eric Voegelin, and Hugo Gunckel Lüer. After her are Yang Kaihui, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, Ödön von Horváth, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Souvanna Phouma, and Pier Giorgio Frassati. Among people deceased in 1993, Adelaide Hall ranks 58. Before her are Helen Hayes, Bruno Pontecorvo, Leonid Gaidai, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Tofiq Bahramov, and Léo Ferré. After her are Rahmon Nabiyev, Hervé Villechaize, Felice Borel, Pierre Bérégovoy, Eddie Constantine, and Silvina Ocampo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Adelaide Hall ranks 1,850 out of 20,380. Before her are Nora Roberts (1950), Joey Ramone (1951), Paul Desmond (1924), Michael Bay (1965), Frederick Cook (1865), and Tom Courtney (1933). After her are Jasper Johns (1930), Joan Allen (1956), Loretta Young (1913), Isamu Noguchi (1904), Yaphet Kotto (1939), and Carole King (1942).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Adelaide Hall ranks 99. Before her are John Fogerty (1945), Coolio (1963), "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959), Cab Calloway (1907), Axl Rose (1962), and Joey Ramone (1951). After her are Carole King (1942), Karen Carpenter (1950), Hank Williams (1923), Connie Francis (1938), Eric Adams (1952), and Christina Aguilera (1980).

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