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Daniel Viglietti

1939 - 2017

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Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart (24 July 1939 – 30 October 2017) was an Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He was one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Canción or "New Song" of the 1960s and early 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Viglietti is the 1,638th most popular musician (down from 1,611th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 205th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Uruguayan Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Daniel Viglietti ranks 1,638 out of 3,175Before him are Darude, Pyotr Mamonov, Kyle Eastwood, Masaharu Fukuyama, Michael Giles, and Gavin Harrison. After him are K. S. Chithra, Bill Frisell, Richard Rodney Bennett, Hubert Sumlin, Benno Moiseiwitsch, and Meshell Ndegeocello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Daniel Viglietti ranks 469Before him are Stuart Kauffman, William B. Lenoir, Per Ahlmark, Marlena Shaw, Henning Christophersen, and Tsuyoshi Yamanaka. After him are Tom Hayden, Emilio Álvarez, Maeve Binchy, Charles Cyphers, John Danielsen, and Niels Helveg Petersen. Among people deceased in 2017, Daniel Viglietti ranks 433Before him are Martin McGuinness, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Frank Schepke, Fernando Birri, Girija Devi, and Tsuyoshi Yamanaka. After him are Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev, Chris Roberts, Peter Härtling, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Alec McCowen, and Nicolae Lupescu.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Daniel Viglietti ranks 206 out of 444Before him are Juan Francisco Giró (1791), Luis Maidana (1934), Rodolfo Rodríguez (1956), Roberto Figueroa (1904), Alfredo Zibechi (1895), and Gus Poyet (1967). After him are Antonio Alzamendi (1956), Tomás Berreta (1875), Emilio Álvarez (1939), Alberto Cardaccio (1949), Omar Caetano (1938), and Nelson Acosta (1944).

Among MUSICIANS In Uruguay

Among musicians born in Uruguay, Daniel Viglietti ranks 3Before him are Francisco Canaro (1888), and Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897).