SINGER

Lys Assia

1924 - 2018

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Lys Assia (born Rosa Mina Schärer; 3 March 1924 – 24 March 2018) was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lys Assia has received more than 304,034 page views. Her biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Lys Assia is the 126th most popular singer (up from 129th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 73rd in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Singer.

Lys Assia is most famous for being the first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Lys Assias by language

Over the past year Lys Assia has had the most page views in the with 44,462 views, followed by English (33,260), and Russian (6,018). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (101.47%), Breton (63.26%), and Simple English (60.72%)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Lys Assia ranks 126 out of 4,381. Before her are Mercedes Sosa, Kenny Rogers, Gigliola Cinquetti, Peter Gabriel, Sylvie Vartan, and Carmen Miranda. After her are Bruce Dickinson, Marvin Gaye, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Nancy Sinatra, Thomas Anders, and Grace Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Lys Assia ranks 36. Before her are Sidney Lumet, Kōbō Abe, Black Dahlia, Lee Marvin, Henry Mancini, and Truman Capote. After her are Amílcar Cabral, Christopher Tolkien, Dmitry Yazov, Antony Hewish, Jin Yong, and Leon Uris. Among people deceased in 2018, Lys Assia ranks 26. Before her are Peter Grünberg, Hubert de Givenchy, Billy Graham, Ursula K. Le Guin, Burt Reynolds, and Riccardo Giacconi. After her are Arto Paasilinna, Richard E. Taylor, Jens Christian Skou, Arvid Carlsson, Robert Venturi, and Stéphane Audran.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Lys Assia ranks 70 out of 1,015. Before her are Hans Küng (1928), Siegfried Wagner (1869), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Alexandre Yersin (1863), and Clay Regazzoni (1939). After her are Peter Zumthor (1943), Domenico Fontana (1543), Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Alejo Carpentier (1904), and Sigismond Thalberg (1812).

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Among SINGERS In Switzerland

Among singers born in Switzerland, Lys Assia ranks 1. After her are Lisa Della Casa (1919), Andreas Vollenweider (1953), Anita Traversi (1937), Patrick Juvet (1950), Henri Dès (1940), Paola del Medico (1950), Paolo Meneguzzi (1976), Salvatore Licitra (1968), Francine Jordi (1977), Yves Larock (1977), and Michael von der Heide (1971).

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