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Armando Manzanero

1935 - 2020

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Armando Manzanero Canché (7 December 1934 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in the United States in 2014. He was the president of the Mexican Society of Authors and Composers (Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Armando Manzanero is the 733rd most popular musician (down from 603rd in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 114th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Mexican Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Armando Manzanero ranks 733 out of 3,175. Before him are Lonnie Johnson, Louis Prima, Gene Krupa, Mick Mars, Ma Rainey, and Johann Kaspar Mertz. After him are Manfred Mann, Stewart Copeland, Claude Bolling, Frans Brüggen, Andrea Guarneri, and Alex Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Armando Manzanero ranks 179. Before him are Fiorenza Cossotto, Peter Bichsel, Shūji Terayama, Pierre Kartner, Elga Andersen, and Ferdinand Alexander Porsche. After him are Letizia Battaglia, Lisa Gastoni, Dudley Moore, Akihiro Miwa, Carl Andre, and Richard M. Karp. Among people deceased in 2020, Armando Manzanero ranks 217. Before him are Fou Ts'ong, Mustafa Nadarević, Samuel Little, Jackie Stallone, Flavio Cotti, and Alfred Körner. After him are Claude Bolling, Sonja Ziemann, Gene Deitch, David Graeber, Pentti Linkola, and Abderrahmane Youssoufi.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Armando Manzanero ranks 134 out of 729. Before him are Jacqueline Andere (1938), Abelardo L. Rodríguez (1889), Francisco Robles Ortega (1949), Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1877), Manuel González Flores (1833), and Carlos Chávez (1899). After him are Javier Hernández (1988), Rufino Tamayo (1899), Ricardo Flores Magón (1874), Francisco León de la Barra (1863), Juan Álvarez (1790), and Kitten Natividad (1948).

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Among MUSICIANS In Mexico

Among musicians born in Mexico, Armando Manzanero ranks 3. Before him are Carlos Santana (1947), and Consuelo Velázquez (1916). After him are José José (1948), Abraham Laboriel (1947), Antonio Sánchez (1971), and Carla Morrison (1986).

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