MUSICIAN

Trilok Gurtu

1951 - Today

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Trilok Gurtu (born 30 October 1951) is an Indian percussionist and composer whose work has blended the music of India with jazz fusion and world music.He has worked with Terje Rypdal, Gary Moore, John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, Joe Zawinul, Michel Bisceglia, Bill Laswell, Maria João & Mário Laginha, Stefano Bollani and Robert Miles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Trilok Gurtu has received more than 300,742 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Trilok Gurtu is the 1,568th most popular musician (up from 1,669th in 2019), the 689th most popular biography from India (down from 630th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Trilok Gurtus by language

Over the past year Trilok Gurtu has had the most page views in the with 53,544 views, followed by Italian (6,399), and German (5,632). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (71.48%), Catalan (65.28%), and Polish (64.65%)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Trilok Gurtu ranks 1,568 out of 3,175. Before him are Richard Rodney Bennett, Andor Földes, Boots Randolph, Peter Baltes, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Michael Franks. After him are Skip James, Phạm Duy, Laura Fygi, Peter Tork, Horace Andy, and Marius Müller-Westernhagen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Trilok Gurtu ranks 417. Before him are Geoff Lees, Choei Sato, Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa, Dale Earnhardt, Philip Davis, and Robben Ford. After him are Horace Andy, Yury Chaika, Barry Van Dyke, Ramón Heredia, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, and Dani.

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In India

Among people born in India, Trilok Gurtu ranks 689 out of 1,861. Before him are Ashok Kumar (1911), Begum Akhtar (1914), Freida Pinto (1984), Amrita Singh (1958), Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), and Chiranjeevi (1955). After him are Reema Lagoo (1958), Juhi Chawla (1967), Alka Yagnik (1966), Tim Severin (1940), Shatrughan Sinha (1945), and Parveen Babi (1949).

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Among MUSICIANS In India

Among musicians born in India, Trilok Gurtu ranks 12. Before him are Tansen (1493), Bismillah Khan (1916), Ilaiyaraaja (1943), Barry Hay (1948), Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938), and Christian Zacharias (1950). After him are Mehdi Hassan (1927), A. R. Rahman (1966), M. Balamuralikrishna (1930), Amjad Ali Khan (1945), Salil Chowdhury (1925), and Teejan Bai (1956).

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