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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 616,630 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Kai Hansen is the 508th most popular musician (up from 534th in 2019), the 2,188th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,226th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 620k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Kai Hansen ranks 508 out of 2,662Before him are Mick Mars, Paul Landers, Bebo Valdés, Ira Gershwin, Michael Hutchence, and Annie Fischer. After him are Jacques Loussier, Archie Shepp, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Jermaine Jackson, Aldo Ciccolini, and Tommy Ramone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Kai Hansen ranks 82Before him are Vladimir Petković, Junji Ito, Roberto Donadoni, David Yates, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Mikkey Dee. After him are Coolio, Mike Pompeo, May-Britt Moser, David Moyes, Tom Cavanagh, and Eric McCormack.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kai Hansen ranks 2,188 out of 6,142Before him are Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724), Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (1673), Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779), Hermann Breith (1892), and Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1647). After him are Franz Reuleaux (1829), Bruno Loerzer (1891), Handrij Zejler (1804), Konrad von Jungingen (1355), Philipp Ludwig von Seidel (1821), and Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749).

Among MUSICIANS In Germany

Among musicians born in Germany, Kai Hansen ranks 26Before him are Matthias Jabs (1955), Bert Kaempfert (1923), Anne-Sophie Mutter (1963), Uli Jon Roth (1954), Ralf Hütter (1946), and Paul Landers (1964). After him are Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688), Klaus Voormann (1938), Christian Lorenz (1966), Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724), Rudolf Kempe (1910), and Peter Schreier (1935).