SINGER

Kiri Te Kanawa

1944 - Today

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Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kiri Te Kanawa has received more than 1,417,829 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Kiri Te Kanawa is the 338th most popular singer (down from 269th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Kiri Te Kanawa ranks 338 out of 4,381. Before her are Alpha Blondy, Natalia Oreiro, Connie Francis, Black, Dave Evans, and Eric Adams. After her are Christina Aguilera, Heino, Joe Lynn Turner, Gene Vincent, Billy Preston, and Galina Vishnevskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Kiri Te Kanawa ranks 144. Before her are Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ayad Allawi, Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Ron Huldai, Willem van Hanegem, and Christian Boltanski. After her are Chung Hong-won, John Entwistle, Jan Guillou, James Heckman, Michel Polnareff, and Alice Walker.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Kiri Te Kanawa ranks 15 out of 303. Before her are Alan MacDiarmid (1927), Thomas Williams (1930), Helen Clark (1950), Chris Amon (1943), Burt Munro (1899), and Martin Campbell (1943). After her are Lucy Lawless (1968), John Money (1921), Jane Campion (1954), Rosé (1997), Karl Urban (1972), and Bruce Spence (1945).

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Among SINGERS In New Zealand

Among singers born in New Zealand, Kiri Te Kanawa ranks 1. After her are Rosé (1997), Keith Urban (1967), Neil Finn (1958), Hayley Westenra (1987), Lorde (1996), Kimbra (1990), Brooke Fraser (1983), Daniel Bedingfield (1979), and Bic Runga (1976).

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