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Andreas Vollenweider

1953 - Today

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Andreas Vollenweider (born 4 October 1953) is a Swiss harpist. He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Carly Simon, Luciano Pavarotti and in 1987 received a Grammy Award for the album Down to the Moon. Vollenweider's style has been described by The New York Times as "swirling atmospheric music, which evokes nature, magic and fairy tales". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andreas Vollenweider is the 748th most popular singer (up from 831st in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 360th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Andreas Vollenweider ranks 748 out of 4,381. Before him are Alanis Morissette, Jacques Pills, Kadriye Nurmambet, Gali Atari, Joselito, and Shawn Mendes. After him are Plastic Bertrand, Gino Paoli, Richard Carpenter, Sayed Darwish, Afrika Bambaataa, and Navneet Aditya Waiba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Andreas Vollenweider ranks 175. Before him are Halid Bešlić, John Robertson, Paul Haggis, Zlatko Burić, Carlos Mesa, and Gali Atari. After him are Gérard Krawczyk, Norman Finkelstein, Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, Wim Mertens, Can Xue, and Lawrence Gonzi.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Andreas Vollenweider ranks 321 out of 1,015. Before him are Gottfried von Einem (1918), Liselotte Pulver (1929), Pierre Tirard (1827), Maurice Bavaud (1916), Arthur Cravan (1887), and Marc Surer (1951). After him are Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), Johann Bauhin (1541), Alain Berset (1972), Josef Hügi (1930), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), and Urs Graf (1485).

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Among SINGERS In Switzerland

Among singers born in Switzerland, Andreas Vollenweider ranks 3. Before him are Lys Assia (1924), and Lisa Della Casa (1919). After him are Anita Traversi (1937), Patrick Juvet (1950), Henri Dès (1940), Paola del Medico (1950), Salvatore Licitra (1968), Michael von der Heide (1971), Yves Larock (1977), Paolo Meneguzzi (1976), and Luca Hänni (1994).

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