MUSICIAN

Marty Balin

1942 - 2018

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Martyn Jerel Buchwald (January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018), known as Marty Balin (), was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marty Balin has received more than 1,981,485 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Marty Balin is the 1,182nd most popular musician (down from 993rd in 2019), the 5,808th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,873rd in 2019) and the 416th most popular American Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Marty Balin ranks 1,182 out of 3,175. Before him are Big Joe Turner, Momčilo Bajagić Bajaga, Kate Pierson, Linda Perry, Dave Holland, and Paul Gilbert. After him are Barry Hay, Wolfgang Flür, Szymon Goldberg, Peter Tägtgren, Jenő Jandó, and Joe Henderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Marty Balin ranks 397. Before him are Uğur Mumcu, Mike Resnick, Gérard Pirès, Rubén Salazar Gómez, Marcia Wallace, and Želimir Žilnik. After him are Osman Nuri Topbaş, Dobromir Zhechev, Joe Lieberman, Gualtiero Bassetti, Claudine Longet, and Ned Block. Among people deceased in 2018, Marty Balin ranks 267. Before him are Theodor Hoffmann, Adolf Grünbaum, Tony Joe White, Vladimír Weiss, María Dolores Pradera, and Dave Holland. After him are Barbara Harris, Ehsan Yarshater, Rosenda Monteros, Lawrence Roberts, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and Lucian Pintilie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marty Balin ranks 5,808 out of 20,380. Before him are Mary Ellen Mark (1940), Alice Joyce (1890), Black Kettle (1803), Buck Adams (1955), Gordon Tullock (1922), and Kim Raver (1969). After him are Edward Cook (1888), Ruth St. Denis (1879), Margaret Geller (1947), Ally Sheedy (1962), Julianna Margulies (1966), and Robert Mills (1927).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Marty Balin ranks 416. Before him are Jorma Kaukonen (1940), Terry Bozzio (1950), Big Joe Turner (1911), Kate Pierson (1948), Linda Perry (1965), and Paul Gilbert (1966). After him are Joe Henderson (1937), John Abercrombie (1944), Taylor Hawkins (1972), Ralph Towner (1940), Steven Adler (1965), and Benjamin Orr (1947).

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