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Marian Anderson

1897 - 1993

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Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Anderson was an important figure in the struggle for African American artists to overcome racial prejudice in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marian Anderson is the 500th most popular singer (down from 462nd in 2019), the 3,118th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,649th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular American Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Marian Anderson ranks 500 out of 4,381. Before her are Faustina Bordoni, Bobby Solo, Camarón de la Isla, SZA, Toby Keith, and Sena Jurinac. After her are Pérez Prado, Mia Martini, Stromae, Paula Abdul, Isabelle Aubret, and Katy Perry.

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Among people born in 1897, Marian Anderson ranks 119. Before her are Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Virginia Henderson, Alexandre Tansman, Fazlollah Zahedi, Eddie Eagan, and George Szell. After her are Michael Lippert, Edmund Heines, Dirk Stikker, Peter Högl, J. P. Guilford, and Manlio Brosio. Among people deceased in 1993, Marian Anderson ranks 82. Before her are Maurice Yaméogo, Ishirō Honda, Leon Ames, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, John Connally, and Luciano Leggio. After her are E. P. Thompson, C. Northcote Parkinson, Bruno Rossi, Christian Metz, Nina Berberova, and József Antall.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marian Anderson ranks 3,118 out of 20,380. Before her are Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), John Milnor (1931), J. B. Pritzker (1965), Matthew Fox (1966), Raymond Smullyan (1919), and Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822). After her are Sofia Coppola (1971), Mimsy Farmer (1945), Theodore Gill (1837), Henrietta Lacks (1920), J. T. Walsh (1943), and Gloria Leonard (1940).

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