Kai Hansen

Person · Open Library

Works

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Acting · Hamburg, West Germany [now Germany]

Kai Michael Hansen, born January 17, 1963 in Hamburg, is a German guitarist and singer, best known for his work as a composer and performer in various speed, power, heavy, and other metal bands. He is notably the founder of two bands: Helloween and Gamma Ray. Kai Hansen is considered the founder of German melodic metal and, more broadly, power metal.

Known for

• Helloween - Live at Budokan — Himself2024
• Helloween: Live At Budokan — Vocals & Guitars2024
• Andre Matos - Maestro do Rock - Episódio II2023
• Helloween - Live at Wacken Open Air 2023 — Vocals & Guitars2023
• Helloween - Masters of Rock Argentina 2023 — Guitar2023
• Gamma Ray - 30 Years Live Anniversary — Himself2021
• Edu Falaschi - Temple of Shadows in Concert2021
• Helloween: United Alive in Madrid — Vocals & Guitars2019
• Helloween: Pumpkins United: Live At Wacken 20182018
• Helloween - Live at Wacken Open Air 2018 — Vocals & Guitars2018

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1963

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

6,574

Total plays

71,650

Originally the lead guitarist and vocalist in Helloween, he left to found his own band, Gamma Ray. Kai Hansen has also performed with Blind Guardian, Iron Savior, Heavenly, Stormwarrior, Heavenwood, Avantasia, Angra, Heaven's Gate, Hammerfall, and Primal Fear as a guest musician. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kai+Hansen">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 46,244x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,410x

3. A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

   · 2020 · cited 17,285x

4. <i>Planck</i> 2018 results

   · 2020 · cited 12,799x

5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,811x

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Wikidata facts

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