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Levon Helm

1940 - 2012

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Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Levon Helm has received more than 4,832,883 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Levon Helm is the 1,143rd most popular musician (down from 999th in 2019), the 5,600th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,904th in 2019) and the 424th most popular American Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Levon Helm ranks 1,143 out of 2,662Before him are David Ellefson, Stan Kenton, Denny Laine, Bonnie Raitt, Bob James, and Mamie Smith. After him are Menahem Pressler, Shavo Odadjian, Parov Stelar, Sonny Stitt, Frank Thomas, and Martin Birch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Levon Helm ranks 306Before him are Renato Pozzetto, Andres Tarand, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Arthur Laffer, Kōkichi Tsuburaya, and Richard Lynch. After him are Władysław Komar, Giacomo Bulgarelli, Roy Thomas, Norman Spinrad, Larry Brown, and Issake Dabore. Among people deceased in 2012, Levon Helm ranks 230Before him are Rafael Lesmes, Richard Lynch, Sergio Livingstone, Vladimir Krutov, Yash Chopra, and Hector Bianciotti. After him are Francisco Xavier do Amaral, Émile Allais, Isuzu Yamada, Ann Curtis, Phyllis Diller, and Maeve Binchy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Levon Helm ranks 5,600 out of 18,182Before him are Mamie Smith (1891), Annette Haven (1954), Lou Gramm (1950), David Conrad (1967), Taraji P. Henson (1970), and Richard Jaeckel (1926). After him are Sarah Goodridge (1788), Robert David Hall (1947), Robert Leckie (1920), Bob Rafelson (1933), David Dinkins (1927), and Gerrit Smith Miller (1869).

Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Levon Helm ranks 424Before him are Bruce Kulick (1953), David Ellefson (1964), Stan Kenton (1911), Bonnie Raitt (1949), Bob James (1939), and Mamie Smith (1891). After him are Sonny Stitt (1924), Frank Thomas (1912), Dexter Holland (1965), Norah Jones (1979), Lee Ritenour (1952), and Mike Stern (1953).