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M. Balamuralikrishna

1930 - 2016

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Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (6 July 1930 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer, and character actor. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. Balamuralikrishna has received more than 945,407 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). M. Balamuralikrishna is the 1,959th most popular musician (up from 2,056th in 2019), the 812th most popular biography from India (down from 760th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Indian Musician.

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  • 43.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, M. Balamuralikrishna ranks 1,959 out of 3,175. Before him are Andy Rourke, Vicki Peterson, Joan Armatrading, Axwell, Will Champion, and Gem Archer. After him are David Bedford, Terry Callier, Sebastian Ingrosso, Midori, Toshio Masuda, and Ralph McTell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, M. Balamuralikrishna ranks 534. Before him are Norman Johnson, Violetta Ferrari, Edward Givens, Wojciech Zabłocki, Robert H. MacArthur, and Ian Burgess. After him are Guillermo Díaz, Richard A. Falk, Lionel Cox, Carlos Lucas, Nevin Çokay, and Michele Giordano. Among people deceased in 2016, M. Balamuralikrishna ranks 484. Before him are Raúl Sánchez, Heinz Ulzheimer, Van Williams, Henning Christophersen, Berta Cáceres, and André Guelfi. After him are Tage Henriksen, Federico Edwards, Väinö Huhtala, William Christopher, Müzahir Sille, and Jerry Doyle.

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In India

Among people born in India, M. Balamuralikrishna ranks 812 out of 1,861. Before him are Murli Manohar Joshi (1934), Shyamala Gopalan (1938), R. H. Tawney (1880), Karisma Kapoor (1974), Boman Irani (1959), and Saroj Khan (1948). After him are Anjali Devi (1927), Gauri Khan (1970), Ismail Merchant (1936), Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), Romila Thapar (1931), and Jamnalal Bajaj (1889).

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Among MUSICIANS In India

Among musicians born in India, M. Balamuralikrishna ranks 15. Before him are Barry Hay (1948), Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938), Christian Zacharias (1950), Trilok Gurtu (1951), Mehdi Hassan (1927), and A. R. Rahman (1966). After him are Amjad Ali Khan (1945), Salil Chowdhury (1925), Teejan Bai (1956), Naushad (1919), Mohammed Zahur Khayyam (1927), and K. S. Chithra (1963).

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