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Andreas Vollenweider

1953 - Today

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Andreas Vollenweider (born 4 October 1953) is a Swiss harpist. He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Carly Simon, Luciano Pavarotti and in 1987 received a Grammy Award for the album Down to the Moon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andreas Vollenweider has received more than 465,874 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Andreas Vollenweider is the 830th most popular singer (down from 799th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 339th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Singer.

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  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Andreas Vollenweider ranks 830 out of 4,381. Before him are Lobo, Kiki Dee, Signe Toly Anderson, Aaron Kwok, Peter Frampton, and Severina. After him are B. J. Thomas, Francesca Cuzzoni, Melanie Thornton, Camillo Felgen, Liam Payne, and Carola Häggkvist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Andreas Vollenweider ranks 200. Before him are Satoru Nakajima, Edward Lowassa, Salvatore Garau, Midge Ure, Robert Wisdom, and Dragan Kićanović. After him are Andrey Makarevich, Ante Čačić, Reinhard Marx, Meng Hongwei, Jean-Louis Gasset, and Barry Sonnenfeld.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Andreas Vollenweider ranks 360 out of 1,015. Before him are Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Albert Heim (1849), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), Henri Schwery (1932), Hans Erni (1909), and Jakob Hermann (1678). After him are Antonio Ciseri (1821), Daniel Schmid (1941), Luuk de Jong (1990), Françoise Giroud (1916), Stéphane Chapuisat (1969), and Othmar Schoeck (1886).

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Among SINGERS In Switzerland

Among singers born in Switzerland, Andreas Vollenweider ranks 3. Before him are Lys Assia (1924), and Lisa Della Casa (1919). After him are Anita Traversi (1937), Patrick Juvet (1950), Henri Dès (1940), Paola del Medico (1950), Paolo Meneguzzi (1976), Salvatore Licitra (1968), Francine Jordi (1977), Yves Larock (1977), and Michael von der Heide (1971).

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