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Simón Díaz

1928 - 2014

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Simón Narciso Díaz Márquez (August 8, 1928 – February 19, 2014), also known as tío Simón, was a Venezuelan singer, actor, TV host, comedian, and Grammy Award-winning composer of Venezuelan music. Some of his most popular songs include Caballo viejo, Tonada de luna llena and La vaca Mariposa. Díaz endeavored to recover the folklore and musical traditions of the Venezuelan Llanos (plains). This style of music has since been performed by artists such as Argentina's Mercedes Sosa, Brazil's Caetano Veloso, Spain's Joan Manuel Serrat, Peru's Susana Baca, Puerto Rico's Danny Rivera, and Venezuelans Franco De Vita, Soledad Bravo, Juan Carlos Salazar, Carlos Baute and José Luis Rodríguez, among others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simón Díaz is the 1,343rd most popular singer (down from 1,306th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 64th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Venezuelan Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Simón Díaz ranks 1,343 out of 4,381. Before him are Tommy Seebach, Reba McEntire, Sotiria Bellou, Leo Slezak, Marcel Amont, and Terence Trent D'Arby. After him are Taos Amrouche, Yvonne Elliman, Park Bom, Kadim Al Sahir, Gary Numan, and Akina Nakamori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Simón Díaz ranks 407. Before him are Alfred Hrdlicka, Nancy Olson, Earl Holliman, Jean Barraqué, Harold Becker, and Pierre Tchernia. After him are Washington Ortuño, Barbara Ann Scott, Ivar Aronsson, Piero Angela, Stanley Mandelstam, and Sergey Mergelyan. Among people deceased in 2014, Simón Díaz ranks 328. Before him are Lorella De Luca, J. E. Freeman, Sandro Lopopolo, Sandra Bem, Jürgen Kurbjuhn, and Anahita Ratebzad. After him are Jonathan Williams, Lucien Clergue, Georg Stollenwerk, Simon Leys, Hanna Maron, and Joseph Sargent.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Simón Díaz ranks 67 out of 183. Before him are Juan Bautista Pérez (1869), Susana Duijm (1936), Edgar Sanabria (1911), Andrés Narvarte (1781), Eugenio Montejo (1938), and Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (1942). After him are Leonardo Jardim (1974), José María Carreño (1792), Victorino Márquez Bustillos (1858), Jacinto Convit (1913), Ignacio Andrade (1839), and Rafael Cadenas (1930).

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Among SINGERS In Venezuela

Among singers born in Venezuela, Simón Díaz ranks 2. Before him are Teresa Carreño (1853). After him are Arca (1989), and Corina Smith (1991).

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