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Betty Carter

1929 - 1998

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Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Betty Carter has received more than 395,963 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Betty Carter is the 1,293rd most popular singer (down from 1,232nd in 2019), the 6,951st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,758th in 2019) and the 342nd most popular American Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Betty Carter ranks 1,293 out of 3,528Before her are Taos Amrouche, Lasse Berghagen, Junior Wells, Olga Guillot, Álvaro Soler, and Daniel Powter. After her are Karina, Luz Casal, Jean Vallée, Katri Helena, Tiziano Ferro, and Leonard Warren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Betty Carter ranks 357Before her are Michael D. Coe, Ignacio Velasco, Ulu Grosbard, John Julius Norwich, Richard Dysart, and Arthur Barnard. After her are Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Rafael Chimishkyan, Igor Novikov, Acker Bilk, Günter Kunert, and Girija Devi. Among people deceased in 1998, Betty Carter ranks 209Before her are Stokely Carmichael, Marion Donovan, Wanda Jakubowska, Kvitka Cisyk, Raymond E. Brown, and Junior Wells. After her are Aurélio de Lira Tavares, Alice Faye, Stu Ungar, Fred Alderman, Åke Seyffarth, and Mae Questel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betty Carter ranks 6,951 out of 18,182Before her are Maura Tierney (1965), David Hungate (1948), Lynn Collins (1977), Jeremy Davies (1969), Evelyn Furtsch (1914), and Robert Carradine (1954). After her are Seth Green (1974), Arthur Samuel (1901), Arthur Freed (1894), Paula Prentiss (1938), Robert John Braidwood (1907), and Ken Foree (1948).

Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Betty Carter ranks 342Before her are Telma Hopkins (1948), Marilyn Miller (1898), Jello Biafra (1958), Tina Weymouth (1950), Kvitka Cisyk (1953), and Junior Wells (1934). After her are Leonard Warren (1911), Skeeter Davis (1931), Johnny Rivers (1942), Sheila E. (1957), Randy Meisner (1946), and Anita Bryant (1940).