SINGER

José Guardiola

1930 - 2012

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José Guardiola Díaz de Rada, (22 October 1930 – 9 April 2012) was a Spanish singer of popular music who sang in Spanish and Catalan. Guardiola was born in Barcelona. He performed and recorded mostly Spanish versions of foreign songs and reached his maximum fame in Spain and Latin America in the early 1960s with versions of songs like "Sixteen Tons", "Mack the Knife" and "Ya Mustafa". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Guardiola has received more than 35,980 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). José Guardiola is the 1,528th most popular singer (down from 1,411th in 2019), the 1,675th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,526th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Spanish Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 36k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, José Guardiola ranks 1,528 out of 4,381Before him are Anne Murray, Yuri Shatunov, Nick Carter, Margot Eskens, Tina Charles, and Paule Desjardins. After him are Assala Nasri, Ann Christy, Jeff Scott Soto, Gilda, Colin Hay, and Hadise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, José Guardiola ranks 458Before him are Olavi Mannonen, Dan Pagis, Bob Baetens, Beryl Penrose, Kurt Biedenkopf, and Richard Lynn. After him are José Luis Artetxe, Pavel Kolchin, Adam Maida, Adam Darius, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, and Richard Bonynge. Among people deceased in 2012, José Guardiola ranks 340Before him are Michael O'Hare, Tony Leblanc, Jorge Illueca, Richard Rodney Bennett, Art Larsen, and Chad Everett. After him are Brigitte Engerer, Jerzy Kulej, Leon Schlumpf, George Kerr, Jaime Graça, and Valeri Vasiliev.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, José Guardiola ranks 1,675 out of 3,355Before him are Vicente Guillot (1941), Tony Leblanc (1922), Jorge Martínez (1962), Fernando Serena (1941), Carme Riera (1948), and Asunción Balaguer (1925). After him are José Luis Capón (1948), Paco Alcácer (1993), Voro (1963), Nolito (1986), Dani (1951), and Lady Pamela Hicks (1929).

Among SINGERS In Spain

Among singers born in Spain, José Guardiola ranks 46Before him are Enrique Morente (1942), Miguel Fleta (1897), Concha Piquer (1908), Luz Casal (1958), Rosalía (1993), and Víctor Balaguer (1921). After him are Álvaro Soler (1991), Concha Buika (1972), Soraya Arnelas (1982), Sergio Dalma (1964), Carmen Linares (1951), and David Bisbal (1979).