MUSICIAN

Bobbejaan Schoepen

1925 - 2010

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Bobbejaan Schoepen (a pseudonym of Modest Schoepen; 16 May 1925 – 17 May 2010) was a Flemish pioneer in Belgian pop music, vaudeville, and European country music. Schoepen was a versatile entertainer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, actor, and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park Bobbejaanland. His musical career flourished from 1948 until the first half of the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bobbejaan Schoepen has received more than 94,270 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Bobbejaan Schoepen is the 849th most popular musician (down from 835th in 2019), the 461st most popular biography from Belgium (down from 412th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Belgian Musician.

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  • 94k

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  • 52.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Bobbejaan Schoepen ranks 849 out of 3,175. Before him are Alice Coltrane, Aníbal Troilo, Son House, Zino Francescatti, Berry Gordy, and Tor Aulin. After him are Nikolai Noskov, Orhan Gencebay, Herman Rarebell, Eric Ericson, Michael Brecker, and Angélique Kidjo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Bobbejaan Schoepen ranks 219. Before him are Otto Muehl, Theodore Hall, Carlo Rambaldi, José Napoleón Duarte, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. After him are Evelyn Berezin, Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Prosper Grech, Robert Jonquet, Pierre Mondy, and Ignacio López Tarso. Among people deceased in 2010, Bobbejaan Schoepen ranks 172. Before him are Bruno S., Allan Sandage, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Zilda Arns, Alex Higgins, and Magda Frank. After him are Juan Carlos González, Gary Coleman, Palle Huld, Iryna Melnykova, Fernando Riera, and Huang Hua.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Bobbejaan Schoepen ranks 461 out of 1,190. Before him are Raoul Servais (1928), Constant Permeke (1886), Hélène Dutrieu (1877), Adrien-François Servais (1807), Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880), and Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1830). After him are Nicholas, Count of Salm (1459), Joseph Poelaert (1817), Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662), Gustaaf Wappers (1803), Ferdinand de Marsin (1656), and Jean Duvieusart (1900).

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Among MUSICIANS In Belgium

Among musicians born in Belgium, Bobbejaan Schoepen ranks 7. Before him are Django Reinhardt (1910), Toots Thielemans (1922), Arthur Grumiaux (1921), Brian Molko (1972), Sigiswald Kuijken (1944), and Adrien-François Servais (1807). After him are André Cluytens (1905), Francis Goya (1946), Arthur De Greef (1862), Gotye (1980), Lost Frequencies (1993), and Gustaph (1980).

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