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Francisco Canaro

1888 - 1964

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Francisco Canaro (November 26, 1888 – December 14, 1964) was a Uruguayan violinist and tango orchestra leader. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay, in 1888. His parents were Italian immigrants, and later, when he was less than 10 years old, they emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina in the late nineteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francisco Canaro has received more than 88,317 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Francisco Canaro is the 745th most popular musician (up from 752nd in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Uruguay (up from 66th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Uruguayan Musician.

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  • 19

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Francisco Canaro ranks 745 out of 2,662Before him are Pinchas Zukerman, Charlie Haden, Marcus Miller, Danko Jones, Richie Havens, and Gerry Rafferty. After him are Yakov Zak, Gábor Szabó, Brian Molko, Jorge Bolet, Noel Redding, and Andrea Guarneri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Francisco Canaro ranks 117Before him are Michał Sopoćko, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Antonio Ascari, Joachim Lemelsen, Jean Wahl, and Richard Kohn. After him are Friedrich Wolf, Josef Beran, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Léon Scieur, Lotte Lehmann, and Harald Sverdrup. Among people deceased in 1964, Francisco Canaro ranks 88Before him are Jean Ray, Ebbe Schwartz, Eric Dolphy, Khawaja Nazimuddin, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, and Abbās al-Aqqād. After him are Aloïse Corbaz, Carel Godin de Beaufort, Alvin York, Charilaos Vasilakos, Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, and Heinrich von Brentano.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Francisco Canaro ranks 65 out of 370Before him are Joaquín Torres-García (1874), Schubert Gambetta (1920), Aparicio Méndez (1904), Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897), Lucía Topolansky (1944), and Domingo Tejera (1899). After him are Emilio Recoba (1904), Miguel Capuccini (1904), Delmira Agustini (1886), Aníbal Paz (1917), William Martínez (1928), and Cristina Peri Rossi (1941).

Among MUSICIANS In Uruguay

Among musicians born in Uruguay, Francisco Canaro ranks 2Before him are Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897). After him are Daniel Viglietti (1939).