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Lila Downs

1968 - Today

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Ana Lila Downs Sánchez (born 9 September 1968) is a Mexican singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions and the works of others in multiple genres, as well as tapping into Mexican traditional and popular music. She also incorporates indigenous Mexican influences and has recorded songs in many indigenous languages such as Mixtec, Zapotec, Mayan, Nahuatl and Purépecha. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lila Downs has received more than 697,894 page views. Her biography is available in 111 different languages on Wikipedia. Lila Downs is the 781st most popular singer (down from 707th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Mexico (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Mexican Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 111

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lila Downs by language

Over the past year Lila Downs has had the most page views in the with 113,969 views, followed by English (81,378), and French (7,216). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Gan (150.00%), Tok Pisin (112.03%), and Yiddish (86.33%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Lila Downs ranks 781 out of 4,381Before her are Fayza Ahmed, Natalie Imbruglia, Pierre Bachelet, Leonid Utyosov, Henriette Sontag, and Richard Anthony. After her are Piero Cappuccilli, Massimo Ranieri, Birthe Wilke, Verka Serduchka, Kevin Ayers, and Kurt Moll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Lila Downs ranks 92Before her are Olivia Williams, Surangel Whipps Jr., Juan Antonio Pizzi, Julian McMahon, Oleg Deripaska, and Talant Duyshebaev. After her are Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Martin Dahlin, Aidan Gillen, Gary Coleman, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Évariste Ndayishimiye.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Lila Downs ranks 153 out of 729Before her are Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), José Alfredo Jiménez (1926), Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (1940), Guillermo Ochoa (1985), Victoria Ruffo (1962), and Huitzilihuitl (1379). After her are Javier Hernández (1988), Mariano Azuela (1873), Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (1934), José Joaquín de Herrera (1792), Eugenio Derbez (1961), and Tenoch (1299).

Among SINGERS In Mexico

Among singers born in Mexico, Lila Downs ranks 6Before her are Vicente Fernández (1940), Thalía (1971), Juan Gabriel (1950), Jorge Negrete (1910), and José Alfredo Jiménez (1926). After her are Marco Antonio Solís (1959), Paulina Rubio (1971), María Grever (1885), Anahí (1983), Dulce María (1985), and Alaska (1963).