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WORLD MUSIC RANKING (35-21)

35. UKRAINE

Composer of Swan Lake and Nutcracker Ballets: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sound: Stan Getz
One of the Greatest Pianists of the 20th Century: Emil Gilels
Best Ukranian Bands: Fleur, Nokturnal Mortum, Drudkh

34. ARMENIA

Four time Grammy Award nominated Armenian Band: System of a Down
Best Armenian Classical Composer: Aram Khachaturian
Three times Oscar Winner Composer: Michel Legrand
Greatest Duduk Player Ever: Djivan Gasparyan
Most Famous Armenian Singers Abroad: Cher, Charles Aznavour

33. PORTUGAL

Queen of Fado, One of the Greatest European Singers ever: Amalia Rodrigues
Most Talented Portuguese Musician in the 20th century, Man with a 1000 fingers: Carlos Paredes
Most Famous Portuquese Singer abroad: Nelly Furtado

32. WALES

The Most Inventive and Influential Figure in Contemporary Electronic Music: Aphex Twins
One of the Most Powerful Singing Voices Ever: Tom Jones
Best Welsh Bands: Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals, Young Marble Giants

31. PUERTO RICO

Godfather of Latin Jazz: Ray Barretto
Most Renowned Singer and Composer of Salsa Music: Ismael Rivera
King of Mambo Music: Tito Puente
Great Salsa Singer: Hector Lavoe
Most Successful Puerto Rican Musical Group Ever: El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico

30. ISRAEL

One of the Most Prodigally Talented and Successful Musicians, with his Formidable Piano Technique: Leonard Bernstein
Greatest Violinist of the 20th Century: Jascha Heifetz
Best Israelian Female Musician Ever: Chava Alberstein

29. TURKEY

Creators of Turkish Music, Classical and Sufi Music Composers: Dede Efendi, Tanburi Cemil Bey
Best Turkish Singing Voices Ever: Zeki Muren, Safiye Ayla, Muzeyyen Senar
Best Anatolian Rock Musicians: Erkin Koray, Baris Manco, Cem Karaca
Queen of Turkish Pop: Sezen Aksu
Greatest Turkish Minstrel: Asik Veysel

28. HUNGARY

Top Hungarian Classical Composers and Pianists: Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok
Best Film Score Composers: Gyorgy Ligeti, Miklos Rozsa
Best Hungarian Folk Music Band: Muzsikas

27. INDIA

Greatest Indian Musician Ever: Ravi Shankar
Sitar Maestro: Vilayat Khan
Most Famous Female Bollywood Playback Singers: Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle
One of the Most Versatile Singing Voice Ever: Mohammed Rafi

26. NETHERLAND

Most Famous Classical Composer of 16. Century: Josquin des Prez
Greatest Dutch Bands: The Gathering, Golden Earring, Focus
Top Djs of the World: Ferry Corsten, DJ Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren

25.GREECE

Greek Soprano, Best European Female Voice of the Twentieth Century: Maria Callas
One of the Greatest Composers of Electronic Music of All-Time: Vangelis
Modernist Composer: Iannis Xenakis
Academy Award Winner Film Composer: Manos Hadjidakis

24. FINLAND

Greatest Finnish Musician of All-Time: Jean Sibelius
Best Symphonic Power Metal Band Ever: Nightwish
Death Metal Band: Amorphis

23. MEXICO

A Rock and Roll Pioneer and a Forefather of the Chicano Rock Movement: Ritchie Valens
Most Famous Actor and Singer of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema: Pedro Infante
The King of Space Age Pop: Esquivel
Internationally Known Music Trio: Los Panchos
Best Ranchera Musician Ever: Jose Alfredo Jimenez

22. CZECH REPUBLIC

Composer of New World Symphony, One of The Greatest Romantic Music Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Most Famous Czech Composer just aftert Dvorak: Bedrich Smetana
Academy Award Winning Film Score Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

21. JAPAN

Best Japanese Film Score Composer: Joe Hisaishi
Video Game Composer, Composer of Final Fantasy Series: Nobuo Uematsu
Greatest Enka Singer: Meiko Kaji

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[hfleyton]

a favor which is the song and the singer of Welsh please thanks

[Pomegranatem]

tom jones - sex bomb

[loveffkh]

The all of the songs are beautiful!

But especially I love Armenia, Israel, and Finland's songs.

If you're OK please tell me the songs name and the singers' name. :D

At last, thank you for putting Japan such higher rankin'!!! xD

[Pomegranatem]

armenia, system of a down

israel ofra haza - im nin aliu

finland - HIM In the shadow

[sbb1983]

nice work man!!! can you pls tell me the names of the songs from puerto rico and isreal?

[Pomegranatem]

no me ames - j-lo & marc anthony

ofra haza - im nin aliu

[lizeth1]

soooooo, it started off good but then idk!?! what happned is it just a small video of songs u like???

[hfdshfgksghl]

I Must Know What The First One By Ukraine Is. I Love It >:D

[traviskearney]

@009VIP Chalino es alla con los mejores que todos. B.I.G, MIchael Jackson, Pink Floyd, Chalino Sanchez, Metallica. SUPER musicos.

[009VIP]

@traviskearney ..Chalino Sánchez??? NO seas NACO!!Ese tipo cantaba horriblemente naco!

[traviskearney]

Mexico, India, and Japan in top 10. Ravi Shankar? No Banda El Recodo o Chalino Sanchez? Los Panchos? Rankings suck cause everything is an opinion.

[ronpavlodar]

@borralhe creo que no es de emir kusturica buscare aunque se parece mas a goran bregovic

[borralhe]

@borralhe

[borralhe]

@OpiumAfghan

emir kusturica the composer, but idk the name of the song.