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Kate McGarrigle

1946 - 2010

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Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle.She is the mother of singers Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright from her marriage to American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, which ended in divorce. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kate McGarrigle has received more than 659,311 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Kate McGarrigle is the 2,098th most popular singer (down from 1,827th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Canada (down from 560th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Canadian Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 660k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Kate McGarrigle ranks 2,098 out of 3,528Before her are MF Doom, Edie Brickell, Mary Wells, Wendy, Nicky Byrne, and Sofi Marinova. After her are Annie Ross, Petra Marklund, Misia, Yael Naim, Alesha Dixon, and L.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Kate McGarrigle ranks 654Before her are Jim Webb, Im Shung-hwi, Sonny Perdue, Kiril Ivkov, Gene Siskel, and Sverre Kjelsberg. After her are Alberto Quintano, Holly Woodlawn, Naveen Patnaik, Emily de Jongh-Elhage, Richard O. Covey, and Petra Burka. Among people deceased in 2010, Kate McGarrigle ranks 390Before her are Nodar Kumaritashvili, Nan Martin, Walter Frederick Morrison, Vladislav Galkin, Peter Christopherson, and Jim Fuchs. After her are Bobby Smith, Wilma Mankiller, Harry Schwarz, Krystyna Bochenek, Anna Samokhina, and Shoya Tomizawa.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Kate McGarrigle ranks 656 out of 1,350Before her are Sidney Crosby (1987), Eric Johnson (1979), Avan Jogia (1992), Jeon So-mi (2001), Missy Peregrym (1982), and Joe Sakic (1969). After her are Calvin Bricker (1884), Lindy Booth (1979), Fikayo Tomori (1997), William Edmond Logan (1798), Gilles Duceppe (1947), and Emily Bett Rickards (1991).

Among SINGERS In Canada

Among singers born in Canada, Kate McGarrigle ranks 38Before her are K.d. lang (1961), Barbara Hannigan (1971), Deryck Whibley (1980), Mac DeMarco (1990), Skip Spence (1946), and Jeon So-mi (2001). After her are Corey Hart (1962), Pierre Bouvier (1979), Lee Aaron (1962), Natasha St-Pier (1981), Snow (1969), and Gary Lux (1959).