Check out Rankopedia's rating of the top charismatic musicians of all times. Bono comes in at #8. But all of the musicians on the list come from the popular music field.
In an article in the NYT, A Gift From the Musical Gods, Zachary Woolfe writes about charismatic performers in the classical performing arts and tries to define just what charisma is.
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It’s no coincidence that these moments depend on physical presence. Charisma operates most strongly on a visual level; it’s telling that when we need another way of describing someone’s possession of it, we say, “You can’t take your eyes off her.”
The problem is that when it comes to the arts, the uses of charisma become harder to pin down. When Bill Clinton is charismatic, you vote for him. When an obscure carpenter’s son in ancient Galilee is charismatic, you join his ministry. But when the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is charismatic, or Callas or Mr. Amidon, what are you supposed to do? What happens? Is our applause enough?
Read Mr. Woolfe's article as a basis for a discussion of charisma. Compare his definition to those in the self-help articles posted.
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