MUSICIAN

Lee "Scratch" Perry

1936 - 2021

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Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936 – 29 August 2021) was a Jamaican record producer, composer and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee "Scratch" Perry has received more than 1,681,303 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Lee "Scratch" Perry is the 617th most popular musician (down from 328th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Jamaica (down from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Jamaican Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Lee "Scratch" Perry ranks 617 out of 3,175. Before him are Rick Wakeman, Myung-whun Chung, Eliso Virsaladze, Tom Araya, Artie Shaw, and Jelly Roll Morton. After him are Vagif Mustafazadeh, Napoleon Orda, Paul Tortelier, Hillel Slovak, Zequinha de Abreu, and Steve Howe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Lee "Scratch" Perry ranks 183. Before him are Antonio López García, Jozef Vengloš, Arend Lijphart, Norma Aleandro, Volodymyr Holubnychy, and Santos Abril y Castelló. After him are Vyacheslav Kebich, Michel Jazy, Han Seung-soo, Fernando Solanas, Antonio María Rouco Varela, and Joe Don Baker. Among people deceased in 2021, Lee "Scratch" Perry ranks 175. Before him are Yuan Longping, János Kornai, DMX, Michael Apted, Pilar Bardem, and Volodymyr Holubnychy. After him are Tomoyasu Asaoka, Donald Arnold, Jorge Medina, Puneeth Rajkumar, Aleksandr Privalov, and Anna Chromý.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Lee "Scratch" Perry ranks 14 out of 189. Before him are Jimmy Cliff (1948), Stuart Hall (1932), Liz Mitchell (1952), Violet Brown (1900), Merlene Ottey (1960), and Trevor Berbick (1954). After him are Patrick Ewing (1962), Desmond Dekker (1941), Stephen Hopkins (1958), Asafa Powell (1982), Burning Spear (1945), and Madge Sinclair (1938).

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Among MUSICIANS In Jamaica

Among musicians born in Jamaica, Lee "Scratch" Perry ranks 3. Before him are Bob Marley (1945), and Peter Tosh (1944). After him are Desmond Dekker (1941), Sean Paul (1973), DJ Kool Herc (1955), Prince Buster (1938), Monty Alexander (1944), King Tubby (1941), Ziggy Marley (1968), Horace Andy (1951), and Damian Marley (1978).

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