MUSICIAN

Ray Barretto

1929 - 2006

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Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz. His first hit, "El Watusi", was recorded by his Charanga Moderna in 1962, becoming the most successful pachanga song in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Barretto has received more than 465,915 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ray Barretto is the 1,155th most popular musician (down from 1,097th in 2019), the 5,664th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,344th in 2019) and the 406th most popular American Musician.

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  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Ray Barretto ranks 1,155 out of 3,175. Before him are Joey Kramer, Shura Cherkassky, Country Joe McDonald, Big Bill Broonzy, Andrew Loog Oldham, and Desmond Child. After him are Afrojack, Jimmie Nicol, Abraham Laboriel, Rolf Løvland, Frankie Laine, and Alexander Gradsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ray Barretto ranks 307. Before him are Viguen, Nusrat Bhutto, József Tóth, Petr Eben, Charles Antenen, and Adalet Ağaoğlu. After him are Klara Rumyanova, Txillardegi, Omar Borrás, Abderrahmane Mahjoub, Hallgeir Brenden, and Francesco Marchisano. Among people deceased in 2006, Ray Barretto ranks 209. Before him are André Schwarz-Bart, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Eugene Lazowski, Jean-Louis de Rambures, Jimmy Johnstone, and Pjetër Arbnori. After him are Miroslav Brozović, Bertil Antonsson, Hans Berglund, Karl Hugo Strunz, Tihomir Ognjanov, and Lou Rawls.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ray Barretto ranks 5,664 out of 20,380. Before him are John Wesley Powell (1834), Desmond Child (1953), Mark Pellegrino (1965), Irving Cummings (1888), Michael Eisner (1942), and Kurt Fuller (1953). After him are JoBeth Williams (1948), Gavin MacLeod (1931), George Saling (1909), Harry Morgan (1915), Carl Lumbly (1951), and Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Ray Barretto ranks 406. Before him are Scott LaFaro (1936), Floyd Westerman (1936), Joey Kramer (1950), Country Joe McDonald (1942), Big Bill Broonzy (1903), and Desmond Child (1953). After him are Frankie Laine (1913), Tony Joe White (1943), Mike Stern (1953), Jorma Kaukonen (1940), Terry Bozzio (1950), and Big Joe Turner (1911).

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