SINGER

Geoffrey Oryema

1953 - 2018

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Geoffrey Oryema (16 April 1953 – 22 June 2018) was a Ugandan musician. In 1977 after the murder of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister in the government of Idi Amin, he began his life in exile. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Geoffrey Oryema has received more than 617,580 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Geoffrey Oryema is the 1,762nd most popular singer (down from 1,687th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Uganda (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Ugandan Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Geoffrey Oryema ranks 1,762 out of 4,381. Before him are Taboo, Netta Barzilai, Alex Kapranos, Hemanta Mukherjee, Óscar Chávez, and Nina Kraviz. After him are Julian Casablancas, Amina Annabi, Simon Fuller, Jessi, Rickie Lee Jones, and Habib Koité.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Geoffrey Oryema ranks 435. Before him are Erich Obermayer, Shōichi Nakagawa, Rolf Danneberg, Nikolai Budarin, Paweł Janas, and Vera Komisova. After him are Hasse Borg, Vlastimil Petržela, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Nadezhda Olizarenko, Dimitris Avramopoulos, and Caspar Memering. Among people deceased in 2018, Geoffrey Oryema ranks 431. Before him are Valentina Rastvorova, Peter Sutherland, Igor Korobov, William Smith, Wilhelm Genazino, and Geoff Murphy. After him are Győző Forintos, Wenceslao Padilla, Steven Bochco, Gary Kurtz, Douglas Rain, and Yoseph Imry.

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In Uganda

Among people born in Uganda, Geoffrey Oryema ranks 16 out of 55. Before him are Yusuf Lule (1912), Godfrey Binaisa (1920), Bazilio Olara-Okello (1929), Emmanuel Wamala (1926), Danny Faure (1962), and Apolo Nsibambi (1940). After him are Ruhakana Rugunda (1947), Scott Hicks (1953), Paulo Muwanga (1924), Florence Kasumba (1976), Phill Lewis (1968), and Shekhar Mehta (1945).

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Among SINGERS In Uganda

Among singers born in Uganda, Geoffrey Oryema ranks 1. 

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