MUSICIAN

Rachid Taha

1958 - 2018

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Rachid Taha (Arabic: رشيد طه, Rashīd Ṭāhā, [raʃiːd tˤaːhaː]; 18 September 1958 – 12 September 2018) was an Algerian singer and activist based in France described as "sonically adventurous". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rachid Taha has received more than 828,317 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Rachid Taha is the 641st most popular musician (down from 575th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 70th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Algerian Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 830k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Rachid Tahas by language

Over the past year Rachid Taha has had the most page views in the with 201,977 views, followed by English (104,164), and Arabic (23,705). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (140.08%), Haitian (83.65%), and Swahili (64.91%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Rachid Taha ranks 641 out of 3,175. Before him are Ron Carter, Joan Jett, Walter Gieseking, Victor Young, Vladimir Sofronitsky, and Ian Hill. After him are Joe Pass, Steve Gadd, Moondog, Mikhail Pletnev, Gerry Mulligan, and David Knopfler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Rachid Taha ranks 92. Before him are Ivo Pogorelić, Anatoli Boukreev, Didier Reynders, Joan Jett, Anne Holt, and Julian Sands. After him are Samira Said, Tracey Adams, Fiona Shaw, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Riccardo Paletti, and Sergey Sobyanin. Among people deceased in 2018, Rachid Taha ranks 146. Before him are Trần Đại Quang, Walter Mischel, Sergio Marchionne, Nancy Roman, Per Kirkeby, and Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab. After him are Darío Castrillón Hoyos, John Gavin, June Whitfield, José Antonio Abreu, Neil Simon, and Lindsay Kemp.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Rachid Taha ranks 80 out of 213. Before him are Messali Hadj (1898), Abdelhamid Ben Badis (1889), Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1894), Ahmed Ouyahia (1952), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), and Abdelmalek Sellal (1948). After him are Maximilian of Tebessa (274), Lakhdar Belloumi (1958), Françoise Arnoul (1931), Thelma Schoonmaker (1940), Mouloud Mammeri (1917), and Albert Soboul (1914).

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Among MUSICIANS In Algeria

Among musicians born in Algeria, Rachid Taha ranks 3. Before him are Enrico Macias (1938), and Khaled (1960).

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