Alex Kapranos

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1972-03-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

22,934

Total plays

93,762

Alex Kapranos is a witty, skinny lad from Glasgow, Scotland. His father is from Greece, and he split his childhood between visiting there and living in Sunderland and South Shields. His family moved to Glasgow in 1983, where he would eventually meet the rest of his band. Originally going by Alex Huntley, his mother's maiden name, he switched back to Kapranos upon starting Franz Ferdinand in 2001. He was in many bands before Franz Ferdinand-- including The Yummy Fur <a href="https://www.last.fm/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,635x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,538x

3. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks

   · 2017 · cited 32,050x

4. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,773x

5. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,482x

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Music

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Paul

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Almondsbury

Spouse

Clara Luciani

Occupation

songwriter

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

art rock

Instrument

voice

Record label

Domino Recording Company

Image

ConcertoFranzFerdinandLisboaSetembro2005.jpg

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