MUSICIAN

Luigi Tenco

1938 - 1967

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Luigi Tenco (21 March 1938 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian singer-songwriter. He died on the night of 27 January 1967 after a performance at Sanremo Music Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Tenco has received more than 461,014 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Luigi Tenco is the 236th most popular musician (up from 272nd in 2019), the 1,273rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,392nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Italian Musician.

Luigi Tenco is most famous for his song "La canzone di Marinella" which was a hit in Italy.

Memorability Metrics

  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Luigi Tenco ranks 236 out of 3,175. Before him are Enrico Macias, Alan Parsons, Romano Mussolini, Ian Stewart, Farid al-Atrash, and Alfred Brendel. After him are Isaac Stern, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Stéphane Grappelli, Khaled, Dave Mustaine, and Émile Waldteufel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Luigi Tenco ranks 79. Before him are Enrico Macias, Anthony James Leggett, Ian Stewart, Ben E. King, Michael Rockefeller, and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. After him are Etta James, David Irving, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Elliott Gould, Terence Stamp, and Tereza Kesovija. Among people deceased in 1967, Luigi Tenco ranks 47. Before him are Violeta Parra, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Otis Redding, Joseph Pilates, Abdel Hakim Amer, and Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. After him are Anthony Mann, Hugo Gernsback, Forough Farrokhzad, Lorenzo Bandini, Zinaida Serebriakova, and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Tenco ranks 1,273 out of 5,161. Before him are Peter II of Sicily (1305), Daniela Bianchi (1942), Cristofano Allori (1577), Tarpeia (-800), Bohemond II of Antioch (1108), and Andreas Hofer (1767). After him are Rafael Bombelli (1526), Ugo Tognazzi (1922), Publius Licinius Crassus (-86), Thomas Cajetan (1469), Gaius Valerius Flaccus (45), and Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (1784).

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Among MUSICIANS In Italy

Among musicians born in Italy, Luigi Tenco ranks 12. Before him are Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755), Lucio Dalla (1943), Giovanni Battista Martini (1706), Paolo Conte (1937), Gianna Nannini (1954), and Romano Mussolini (1927). After him are Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920), Mauro Giuliani (1781), Franco Battiato (1945), Matteo Carcassi (1792), Rocco Granata (1938), and Lucio Battisti (1943).

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