1929 - Today
Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko, born 12 December 1929) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, she was the subject of the documentary Jazz Is My Native Language. In 1996, she published her autobiography, Life with Jazz, and in 2007 she was named an NEA Jazz Master by the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toshiko Akiyoshi has received more than 309,043 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Toshiko Akiyoshi is the 860th most popular musician (up from 1,027th in 2019), the 714th most popular biography from China (down from 705th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Chinese Musician.
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Among musicians, Toshiko Akiyoshi ranks 860 out of 2,662. Before her are Joey Jordison, Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Jordan Rudess, Lili Kraus, Adolf Busch, and Arturo Sandoval. After her are Vlado Perlemuter, Jadranka Stojaković, Sally Oldfield, Hank Jones, Shigeru Umebayashi, and Tommy Emmanuel.
1975 - 2021
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 854
1822 - 1901
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 855
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 856
1903 - 1986
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 857
1891 - 1952
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 858
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 859
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 860
1904 - 2002
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 861
1950 - 2016
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 862
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 863
1918 - 2010
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 864
1951 - Present
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 865
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 866
Among people born in 1929, Toshiko Akiyoshi ranks 233. Before her are Luigi Taveri, June Squibb, Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Karl Koller, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, and István Kertész. After her are Patricia Routledge, Jean-Denis Bredin, Hong Song-nam, John Henry Holland, Selim Hoss, and Hind Rostom.
1929 - 2018
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 227
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 228
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.94
Rank: 229
1929 - 2009
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 230
1929 - 2000
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 231
1929 - 1973
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 232
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 233
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 234
1929 - 2021
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 235
1929 - 2009
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 236
1929 - 2015
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 237
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.69
Rank: 238
1929 - 2011
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 239
Among people born in China, Toshiko Akiyoshi ranks 714 out of 1,392. Before her are Saifuddin Azizi (1915), Song Yingxing (1587), Bing Xin (1900), Huang Zongxi (1610), Ng Man-tat (1952), and Sakya Pandita (1182). After her are Meng Hongwei (1953), Wei Yuan (1794), Wu Bangguo (1941), Chen Jiongming (1878), Yi-Fu Tuan (1930), and Huang Hua (1913).
1915 - 2003
HPI: 50.96
Rank: 708
1587 - 1666
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 709
1900 - 1999
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 710
1610 - 1695
HPI: 50.92
Rank: 711
1952 - 2021
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 712
1182 - 1251
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 713
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 714
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 715
1794 - 1857
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 716
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.81
Rank: 717
1878 - 1933
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 718
1930 - 2022
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 719
1913 - 2010
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 720
Among musicians born in China, Toshiko Akiyoshi ranks 3. Before her are Fou Ts'ong (1934) and Lang Lang (1982). After her are Yuja Wang (1987), Cui Jian (1961), Li Yundi (1982), and Liu Fang (1974).
1934 - 2020
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 1
1982 - Present
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 2
1929 - Present
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 3
1987 - Present
HPI: 42.29
Rank: 4
1961 - Present
HPI: 42.15
Rank: 5
1982 - Present
HPI: 41.11
Rank: 6
1974 - Present
HPI: 33.43
Rank: 7