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MUSICIAN

Barış Manço

1943 - 1999

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Mehmet Barış Manço (born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço; 2 January 1943 – 1 February 1999), better known by his stage name Barış Manço, was a Turkish rock musician, singer, composer, actor, television producer and show host. Beginning his musical career while attending Galatasaray High School, he was a pioneer of rock music in Turkey and one of the founders of the Anatolian rock genre. Manço composed around 200 songs and is among the best-selling Turkish artists to date and the winner of the most awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barış Manço has received more than 500,499 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Barış Manço is the 380th most popular musician (down from 359th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Turkey (down from 531st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Barış Manço ranks 380 out of 2,662Before him are Alan Menken, Krystian Zimerman, Bobby McFerrin, David Popper, Steve Morse, and Roger Whittaker. After him are Géza Anda, Janick Gers, Paul Badura-Skoda, Rezső Seress, Tony Levin, and Nikolai Kapustin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Barış Manço ranks 141Before him are Leonardo Sandri, Köbi Kuhn, Arturo Merzario, Paul Wolfowitz, Chris Amon, and Paul Michael Glaser. After him are Peter Sauber, Jan de Bont, Beba Lončar, Hervé Villechaize, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, and John Eliot Gardiner. Among people deceased in 1999, Barış Manço ranks 62Before him are Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Gyula Zsengellér, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alfredo Kraus, Dusty Springfield, and David Ogilvy. After him are Saul Steinberg, DeForest Kelley, Charlotte Perriand, Moondog, Victor Mature, and Lajos Tichy.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Barış Manço ranks 551 out of 1,301Before him are Tervel of Bulgaria (675), Proclus of Constantinople (310), Saint Mercurius (224), Zeki Müren (1931), Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond (1315), and Bohemond VI of Antioch (1237). After him are Alexandros Mavrokordatos (1791), Halide Edib Adıvar (1884), Xenophon of Ephesus (101), Şenol Güneş (1952), John IV of Constantinople (600), and Bohemond IV of Antioch (1172).

Among MUSICIANS In Turkey

Among musicians born in Turkey, Barış Manço ranks 2Before him are Joe Strummer (1952). After him are İdil Biret (1941), Ahmet Ertegun (1923), Âşık Veysel (1894), Orhan Gencebay (1944), Arif Mardin (1932), Selda Bağcan (1948), Fazıl Say (1970), Arto Tunçboyacıyan (1957), Şehrazat (1952), and Şebnem Ferah (1972).