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Toshiko Akiyoshi

1929 - Today

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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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  • 310k

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  • 50.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In China

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).

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Among MUSICIANS In China

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).

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