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MUSICIAN

Arif Mardin

1932 - 2006

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Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records.Mardin worked with artists including The Rascals, Queen, John Prine, the Bee Gees, Hall & Oates, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, Michael Crawford, Chaka Khan,Howard Jones, Laura Nyro, Ringo Starr, Carly Simon, Phil Collins, Daniel Rodriguez, and Norah Jones. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arif Mardin has received more than 439,353 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Arif Mardin is the 1,013th most popular musician (down from 973rd in 2019), the 935th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 857th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Turkish Musician.

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  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Arif Mardin ranks 1,013 out of 2,662Before her are Zoltán Kocsis, Hugh McDonald, Aarre Merikanto, Al Jardine, Paul Simonon, and Phil Woods. After her are Geoff Emerick, Adrien-François Servais, Tony Joe White, Mike Mangini, Jimmy Cobb, and János Starker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Arif Mardin ranks 240Before her are Ted Cassidy, Elaine May, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Otto Schily, Katarina Taikon, and Patsy Cline. After her are Tormod Knutsen, Hans van Manen, Donald Kagan, Chiquito de la Calzada, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and Ray Cooney. Among people deceased in 2006, Arif Mardin ranks 193Before her are Theodore Levitt, Akira Ifukube, Octavia E. Butler, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Lars Korvald, and Ion Drîmbă. After her are Jean-Louis de Rambures, Gert Fredriksson, Runer Jonsson, Tadao Onishi, Fernando Romeo Lucas García, and Ray Barretto.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Arif Mardin ranks 935 out of 1,301Before her are Salt Bae (1983), Doğu Perinçek (1942), Emre Belözoğlu (1980), Ekrem İmamoğlu (1970), Theodore Abu Qurrah (750), and Theodore Balsamon (1140). After her are Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907), Andronikos Komnenos (1108), Vahram Papazian (1888), George Mouzalon (1220), Şivan Perwer (1955), and Eudoxus of Cyzicus (-100).

Among MUSICIANS In Turkey

Among musicians born in Turkey, Arif Mardin ranks 7Before her are Joe Strummer (1952), Barış Manço (1943), İdil Biret (1941), Ahmet Ertegun (1923), Âşık Veysel (1894), and Orhan Gencebay (1944). After her are Selda Bağcan (1948), Fazıl Say (1970), Arto Tunçboyacıyan (1957), Şehrazat (1952), and Şebnem Ferah (1972).