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Mory Kanté

1950 - 2020

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Mory Kanté (29 March 1950 – 22 May 2020) was a Guinean vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was best known internationally for his 1987 hit song "Yé ké yé ké", which reached number-one in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mory Kanté has received more than 313,729 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Mory Kanté is the 367th most popular singer (up from 392nd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Guinea (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Guinean Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Mory Kanté ranks 367 out of 4,381. Before him are Mango, Toby Keith, David Byron, Cecilia Bartoli, Shirley Bassey, and Atahualpa Yupanqui. After him are Mei Lanfang, Christa Ludwig, Albert Hammond, Steve Perry, Amr Diab, and Arsen Dedić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Mory Kanté ranks 97. Before him are Javier Clemente, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Ueli Maurer, Julius Erving, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, and Alexander Lebed. After him are Anghel Iordănescu, Ubaldo Fillol, William Sadler, Håkan Nesser, Jean-Marc Ayrault, and Victoria Principal. Among people deceased in 2020, Mory Kanté ranks 112. Before him are Lucio Urtubia, Miloš Jakeš, Agne Simonsson, Michel Hidalgo, Claude Brasseur, and Pascal Lissouba. After him are John Horton Conway, David Prowse, Bill Withers, Jack Charlton, Benjamin Mkapa, and Daniel arap Moi.

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In Guinea

Among people born in Guinea, Mory Kanté ranks 7 out of 49. Before him are Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922), Alpha Condé (1938), Sundiata Keita (1190), Lansana Conté (1934), Robert Sarah (1945), and Samori Ture (1830). After him are Louis Lansana Beavogui (1923), Moussa Dadis Camara (1964), Nanfadima Magassouba (null), Solomana Kante (1922), Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932), and Mamady Doumbouya (1980).

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Among SINGERS In Guinea

Among singers born in Guinea, Mory Kanté ranks 1. 

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