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Loalwa Braz

1953 - 2017

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Loalwa Braz Vieira (3 June 1953 – 19 January 2017) was a Brazilian singer, best known for providing the lead vocals for the French-Brazilian recording act Kaoma for their 1989 cover of the hit "Llorando se fue" (by Ulysses Hermosa, lead singer of the popular Bolivian folk group Los Kjarkas), later renamed as "Lambada". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Loalwa Braz has received more than 366,111 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Loalwa Braz is the 345th most popular singer (down from 330th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 117th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Brazilian Singer.

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  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Loalwa Braz ranks 345 out of 3,528Before her are Warda Al-Jazairia, Lill-Babs, Roberta Flack, Marc Anthony, Ornella Vanoni, and Sabah Fakhri. After her are Jon Anderson, Heino, Neil Sedaka, Sinéad O'Connor, Rubén Blades, and Joseph Kobzon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Loalwa Braz ranks 78Before her are Alberto Zaccheroni, Tom Hulce, Guy Verhofstadt, David Berkowitz, Mata Amritanandamayi, and Hans Krankl. After her are Dave Evans, Mary Steenburgen, Najib Razak, András Schiff, Danny Elfman, and Claudio Gentile. Among people deceased in 2017, Loalwa Braz ranks 102Before her are Bruce McCandless II, Bill Paxton, Yisrael Kristal, Azzedine Alaïa, Jannis Kounellis, and Magdalena Abakanowicz. After her are Dick Bruna, Juan Goytisolo, Hiroto Muraoka, Tsutomu Hata, Michael Parks, and Luis Bacalov.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Loalwa Braz ranks 120 out of 2,067Before her are Elis Regina (1945), Juninho Pernambucano (1975), Princess Francisca of Brazil (1824), Cláudio Taffarel (1966), Émerson Leão (1949), and Bernardino Machado (1851). After her are Augusto Boal (1931), Vanderlei Luxemburgo (1952), Sérgio Mendes (1941), Tite (1961), Artur da Costa e Silva (1899), and Edu Coimbra (1947).

Among SINGERS In Brazil

Among singers born in Brazil, Loalwa Braz ranks 5Before her are Roberto Carlos (1941), Astrud Gilberto (1940), Elza Soares (1930), and Elis Regina (1945). After her are Gal Costa (1945), Maria Bethânia (1946), Jorge Ben (1942), Naná Vasconcelos (1944), Luiz Gonzaga (1912), Flora Purim (1942), and Michel Teló (1981).

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