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Alice Coltrane

1937 - 2007

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Alice Lucille Coltrane (née McLeod; August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007), also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda (IAST: Svāminī Turīyasaṅgītānanda) or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader. An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, Coltrane recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other record labels. She was married to the jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2024). Alice Coltrane is the 1,020th most popular musician (down from 843rd in 2024), the 5,298th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,184th in 2019) and the 342nd most popular American Musician.

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Among musicians, Alice Coltrane ranks 1,020 out of 3,175. Before her are Gustavo Cerati, Carmine Appice, Éric Serra, Paul Simonon, Joe Hahn, and Oliver Mtukudzi. After her are Ted Nugent, Henry Cowell, Berry Gordy, Zakk Wylde, Theodor Kullak, and Domenico Montagnana.

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Among people born in 1937, Alice Coltrane ranks 271. Before her are Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Todd Armstrong, Ludvík Daněk, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, and Manoj Kumar. After her are Ada Rogovtseva, Attilio Nicora, Hildegard Behrens, Peter Stein, Irina Solovyova, and Alexandra Zabelina. Among people deceased in 2007, Alice Coltrane ranks 205. Before her are Mariano Gonzalvo, Pief Panofsky, Stephen Fumio Hamao, Toše Proeski, Michael Brecker, and Luis Herrera Campins. After her are Kirill Lavrov, Robert Anton Wilson, Fons Rademakers, Milan Jelić, Bruno Mattei, and Zara Dolukhanova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Coltrane ranks 5,298 out of 20,380. Before her are Ram Dass (1931), Betty Holberton (1917), Alexander Payne (1961), David Foster Wallace (1962), Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772), and Mary Surratt (1823). After her are Robert B. Spencer (1962), Susana Martinez (1959), Michael Moriarty (1941), Gene Kranz (1933), James A. Michener (1907), and Rose Wilder Lane (1886).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Alice Coltrane ranks 342. Before her are Michael Brecker (1949), Tom Scott (1948), Rob Zombie (1965), John Scofield (1951), Carmine Appice (1946), and Joe Hahn (1977). After her are Ted Nugent (1948), Henry Cowell (1897), Berry Gordy (1929), Zakk Wylde (1967), Albert Ayler (1936), and Freddie Hubbard (1938).

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