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Lyle Mays

1953 - 2020

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Lyle David Mays (November 27, 1953 – February 10, 2020) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and member of the Pat Metheny Group. Metheny and Mays composed and arranged nearly all of the group's music, for which Mays won eleven Grammy Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Lyle Mays is the 1,690th most popular musician (down from 1,598th in 2024), the 8,871st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,020th in 2019) and the 632nd most popular American Musician.

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Among musicians, Lyle Mays ranks 1,690 out of 3,175. Before her are Tomatito, Shlomo Artzi, Chico Hamilton, Peter Buck, Fabio Biondi, and Unsuk Chin. After her are Ian Haugland, Billy Strayhorn, Jan Axel Blomberg, William Primrose, Ronnie Lane, and ASAP Rocky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Lyle Mays ranks 392. Before her are Sergei Starostin, Roberta Williams, Ingo Hoffmann, Pedro López Quintana, Robert Cray, and Georg Friedrich Haas. After her are Teburoro Tito, Ricky Steamboat, Arto Lindsay, Nicolas Schmit, Christine Pascal, and Friedhelm Funkel. Among people deceased in 2020, Lyle Mays ranks 580. Before her are Günter de Bruyn, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Clifford Robinson, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Kevin Dobson, and Walt Davis. After her are Barbara Windsor, Anthony Soter Fernandez, Biri Biri, Stephen F. Cohen, Olga Tass, and Edmond Baraffe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lyle Mays ranks 8,873 out of 20,380. Before her are Scott Turow (1949), Kevin Dillon (1965), George Deukmejian (1928), Peter Buck (1956), Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836), and Walt Davis (1931). After her are Bob Welch (1945), Robert Kramer (1939), Dave Bing (1943), Billy Strayhorn (1915), Morrison Waite (1816), and Edward Hicks (1780).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Lyle Mays ranks 632. Before her are Nat Adderley (1931), Bernie Leadon (1947), Jake E. Lee (1957), Teddy Riley (1967), Chico Hamilton (1921), and Peter Buck (1956). After her are Billy Strayhorn (1915), ASAP Rocky (1988), Arto Lindsay (1953), Scott Gorham (1951), Mel Tormé (1925), and Elliott Smith (1969).

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