SINGER

Barbara

1930 - 1997

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Monique Andrée Serf (9 June 1930 – 24 November 1997), known as Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky, a native of Odesa, Ukraine. Barbara became a famous cabaretière in the late 1950s in Paris, known as La Chanteuse de minuit ('the midnight singer'), before she started composing her own tracks, which brought her to fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara has received more than 212,852 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Barbara is the 258th most popular singer (down from 252nd in 2019), the 1,471st most popular biography from France (up from 1,532nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Barbara ranks 258 out of 4,381. Before her are Sade, Giuseppina Strepponi, Zdravko Čolić, Victoria Beckham, Marian Gold, and Lil Wayne. After her are Chris Cornell, Warda Al-Jazairia, Dino Merlin, Kylie Minogue, Joan Sutherland, and Anna German.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Barbara ranks 87. Before her are Thomas Williams, Michel Serres, Walter Bonatti, William C. Campbell, Pavel Popovich, and Robert Loggia. After her are Son Sen, Ernst Albrecht, Ed White, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Michal Kováč, and Mario Adorf. Among people deceased in 1997, Barbara ranks 65. Before her are Roland Topor, Georg Solti, Gerda Christian, Narciso Yepes, Yuri Nikulin, and Marco Ferreri. After her are Son Sen, George Wald, Mate Boban, Maria Prymachenko, Miguel Najdorf, and André Franquin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Barbara ranks 1,471 out of 6,770. Before her are Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Jean Clouet (1480), James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (1670), Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary (1158), Stephen, Count of Blois (1045), and Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1772). After her are Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Maurice Bucaille (1920), Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (1929), Warda Al-Jazairia (1939), Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220), and André Lhote (1885).

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Among SINGERS In France

Among singers born in France, Barbara ranks 19. Before her are Maria Malibran (1808), Georges Brassens (1921), Desireless (1952), Charles Trenet (1913), Caterina Valente (1931), and Jacqueline Boyer (1941). After her are Warda Al-Jazairia (1939), Sacha Distel (1933), Théo Sarapo (1936), Alan Stivell (1944), Alizée (1984), and Tino Rossi (1907).

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