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Holger Czukay

1938 - 2017

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Holger Schüring (24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017), known professionally as Holger Czukay (), was a German musician who co-founded the krautrock group Can. Described as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde", Czukay also created early important examples of ambient music, explored "world music" well before the term was coined, and was a pioneer of sampling. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Holger Czukay is the 1,063rd most popular musician (down from 946th in 2019), the 813th most popular biography from Poland (down from 768th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Holger Czukay ranks 1,063 out of 3,175. Before him are Roy Buchanan, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, James Galway, David Sanborn, Billy Hart, and Harry Edison. After him are Tony Visconti, Lauryn Hill, Mantovani, Würzel, Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, and Louis Diémer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Holger Czukay ranks 309. Before him are Kurt Moll, James Farentino, Mort Shuman, Sergio Martino, Pupi Avati, and Martin Koeman. After him are Andrey Lukanov, Leonardo Favio, Susan Strasberg, Peter Snell, Werner Olk, and Anna Wierzbicka. Among people deceased in 2017, Holger Czukay ranks 275. Before him are Hal Moore, Ricardo Piglia, Daniil Granin, Mark White, Ilya Glazunov, and Oleg Vidov. After him are Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Barbara Hale, Prodigy, Ruth Pfau, Karl-Erik Nilsson, and Haruo Nakajima.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Holger Czukay ranks 813 out of 1,694. Before him are Alfred Saalwächter (1883), Mascha Kaléko (1907), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), and Arnold Mendelssohn (1855). After him are Halina Konopacka (1900), Jan Kiepura (1902), Konrad Krajewski (1963), Józef Oleksy (1946), Frederick II of Legnica (1480), and Ryszard Kukliński (1930).

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Among MUSICIANS In Poland

Among musicians born in Poland, Holger Czukay ranks 19. Before him are Bronisław Huberman (1882), Xaver Scharwenka (1850), Julian Fontana (1810), Mordechai Gebirtig (1877), Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815), and Theodor Kullak (1818). After him are Tomasz Stańko (1942), Szymon Goldberg (1909), Ewa Demarczyk (1941), Paweł Mąciwoda (1967), Bronisław Kaper (1902), and Harry Winter (1914).

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