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Kai Hansen

1963 - Today

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Kai Michael Hansen (born 17 January 1963) is a German musician who is the founder, lead guitarist and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also one of the co-founders of another power metal band Helloween, which he was a part of from 1983 to 1989 and rejoined in 2016. He is a prominent figure in power metal and has sold millions of albums worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kai Hansen has received more than 643,731 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Kai Hansen is the 446th most popular musician (up from 506th in 2019), the 2,034th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,186th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 640k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Kai Hansen ranks 446 out of 3,175. Before him are Alvin Lee, Elvis Costello, Ton Koopman, Danko Jones, Dee Dee Ramone, and Steve Morse. After him are Scott McKenzie, Christoph Eschenbach, John Frusciante, Dionisio Aguado y García, Mitsuko Uchida, and Marco Hietala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Kai Hansen ranks 80. Before him are May-Britt Moser, Gosho Aoyama, Carlos Kaiser, Suha Arafat, Mikael Persbrandt, and Jason Isaacs. After him are Srečko Katanec, Sergio Goycochea, Beata Szydło, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mikkey Dee, and Kim Ung-yong.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kai Hansen ranks 2,034 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Ackermann (1896), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Handrij Zejler (1804), Rudolph Goclenius (1547), and Anna of Brandenburg (1487). After him are Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855), Ernst Barkmann (1919), George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547), and Princess Helena of Nassau (1831).

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Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Kai Hansen ranks 22. Before him are Florian Schneider (1947), Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Christian Lorenz (1966), Michael Schenker (1955), Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923), and Christoph Schneider (1966). After him are Ralf Hütter (1946), Matthias Jabs (1955), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715), Bert Kaempfert (1923), and Rudolf Kempe (1910).

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