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Muddy Waters

1913 - 1983

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McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muddy Waters has received more than 5,694,245 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Muddy Waters is the 190th most popular musician (down from 168th in 2019), the 1,087th most popular biography from United States (down from 971st in 2019) and the 55th most popular American Musician.

Muddy Waters is most famous for being the birthplace of the Delta Blues.

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  • 5.7M

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  • 61.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

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  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Muddy Waters ranks 190 out of 2,662. Before him are John Paul Jones, Ian Paice, José Feliciano, Jerry Lee Lewis, Alicia Keys, and Paolo Conte. After him are Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Amy Winehouse, Kitarō, Alfred Cortot, Alfred Brendel, and Nikolai Rubinstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Muddy Waters ranks 49. Before him are Luz Long, Mehmet Shehu, Jacobo Árbenz, Masanobu Fukuoka, Charles Trenet, and Mark Felt. After him are Aimé Césaire, Vinicius de Moraes, Mary Ainsworth, Richard Stone, Stanley Kramer, and Paul Grice. Among people deceased in 1983, Muddy Waters ranks 27. Before him are Buckminster Fuller, Alfred Tarski, John Fante, Anna Seghers, George Balanchine, and Aleksandar Ranković. After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline, Ulf von Euler, Robert Aldrich, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, and Klaus Nomi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Muddy Waters ranks 1,087 out of 18,182. Before him are Leo Fender (1909), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Dick Van Dyke (1925), Mark Felt (1913), Ernie Hudson (1945), and William H. Macy (1950). After him are Éamon de Valera (1882), Edmund Phelps (1933), Douglas Fairbanks (1883), Jonathan Demme (1944), James Jones (1921), and Edmund Kemper (1948).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Muddy Waters ranks 55. Before him are Willie Nelson (1933), Herbie Hancock (1940), Keith Jarrett (1945), Chris Isaak (1956), Jerry Lee Lewis (1935), and Alicia Keys (1981). After him are Jaco Pastorius (1951), Joe Satriani (1956), Pete Seeger (1919), Snoop Dogg (1971), Lenny Kravitz (1964), and Bill Haley (1925).

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