MUSICIAN

Oliver Shanti

1948 - 2016

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Oliver Shanti (16 November 1948), also known as Oliver Serano-Alve, is a New Age musician, best known for his work with the bands "Inkarnation" and "Oliver Shanti & Friends". After having attempted suicide during his pre-trial custody, In 2009, Shanti was sentenced to a 6-year and 10 months prison term in Germany having been convicted on charges of child sexual abuse. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Shanti has received more than 176,942 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Oliver Shanti is the 1,274th most popular musician (down from 1,216th in 2019), the 4,446th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,960th in 2019) and the 76th most popular German Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Oliver Shanti ranks 1,274 out of 3,175. Before him are Paul Gray, Vinnie Paul, Markus Grosskopf, Emanuel Ax, Terry Melcher, and Blind Blake. After him are Herbie Mann, Nathan East, Horst Stein, Edoardo Bennato, Stan Kenton, and Trevor Rabin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Oliver Shanti ranks 408. Before him are Lyudmila Karachkina, Eleonora Brown, Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Alexander McCall Smith, and Vinko Jelovac. After him are Ivan Yarygin, Elias Khoury, Giuseppe Impastato, Atilio Ancheta, Eliyahu Rips, and Carole Laure. Among people deceased in 2016, Oliver Shanti ranks 308. Before him are Eddy Wally, Manfred Krug, Pen Sovan, Anatoli Ilyin, Elizabeth Roemer, and Gotlib. After him are Anne Jackson, Caio Júnior, Charmian Carr, Valery Khalilov, Néstor Gonçalves, and Mother Angelica.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oliver Shanti ranks 4,446 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Heckmann (1901), Kurt Beck (1949), Ernst Stromer (1871), Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp (1631), Kurt Maetzig (1911), and Georg von Kopp (1837). After him are Christian Konrad Sprengel (1750), Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1662), Gotthard Handrick (1908), Eugen Drewermann (1940), Moritz Bleibtreu (1971), and Horst Stein (1928).

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Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Oliver Shanti ranks 76. Before him are Eberhard Weber (1940), Sabine Meyer (1959), Ralph Siegel (1945), Thomas Quasthoff (1959), Elly Ney (1882), and Markus Grosskopf (1965). After him are Horst Stein (1928), Sven Väth (1964), Manfred Eicher (1943), Francis Buchholz (1954), Jörg Michael (1963), and Reinhold Mack (1901).

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