The Most Famous
MUSICIANS from Kuwait
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kuwaiti Musicians of all time. This list of famous Kuwaiti Musicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Mishary Rashid Alafasy (b. 1976)
With an HPI of 56.85, Mishary Rashid Alafasy is the most famous Kuwaiti Musician. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.
Qari Mishary bin Rashid Alafasy (Arabic: مشاري بن راشد العفاسي) is a Kuwaiti qāriʾ (Quran reciter), imam, preacher, and nasheed artist. He studied at the College of the Holy Quran at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he specialized in the ten qira'at (canonical methods of Quranic recitation) and tafsir (Quranic exegesis). In addition to his Qur’anic recitation, Alafasy has released several nasheed albums. While he recites performs in Arabic, he has also recorded nasheeds in other languages, including Japanese, Turkish, English and French. Mishary bin Rashid Alafasy is today one of the most well recognized voices in Nashid and Quran recitations, with his own YouTube channel having 11.6 million subscribers. For instance, 2 of his recorded Nashids have amassed more than 200 million views on YouTube, with 1 recitation of Surah Baqarah amassing nearly 100 million views. Dozens of his Nashids and Quran recitations alike have at least 10 million views on YouTube. His voice is almost always available on any commonly used Quran listening apps.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kuwaiti musicians born between 1976 and 1976. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kuwaiti musicians include Mishary Rashid Alafasy.
