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Pizzicato Five

Japanese pop band
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Pizzicato Five

Summary

Pizzicato Five is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (896 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pizzicato Five's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Pizzicato Five's genre is J-pop[4].
  • Pizzicato Five's genre is house music[5].
  • Pizzicato Five's genre is Shibuya-kei[6].
  • Pizzicato Five's genre is indie pop[7].
  • Pizzicato Five's genre is contemporary R&B[8].
  • Pizzicato Five's genre is acid jazz[9].
  • Pizzicato Five's record label is recorded as Sony Music Entertainment Japan[10].
  • Pizzicato Five's record label is recorded as Matador Records[11].
  • Pizzicato Five's record label is recorded as Nippon Columbia[12].
  • Pizzicato Five's record label is recorded as Teichiku Entertainment, Inc.[13].
  • Pizzicato Five's discography is recorded as Pizzicato Five discography[14].
  • Pizzicato Five's Commons category is recorded as Pizzicato Five[15].
  • Pizzicato Five's country of origin is recorded as Japan[16].
  • Pizzicato Five comprises Maki Nomiya[17].
  • Pizzicato Five comprises Yasuharu Konishi[18].
  • Pizzicato Five comprises Keitarō Takanami[19].
  • Pizzicato Five comprises Ryō Kamomiya[20].
  • Pizzicato Five comprises Shigeo Miyata[21].
  • Pizzicato Five comprises Takao Tajima[22].
  • 1985 marks the founding of Pizzicato Five[23].
  • Pizzicato Five's location of formation is recorded as Tokyo[24].
  • Pizzicato Five's pseudonym is recorded as PIZZICATO V[25].
  • Pizzicato Five's described at URL is recorded as http://columbia.jp/~pizzicato/[26].
  • Pizzicato Five's described at URL is recorded as http://www.matadorrecords.com/pizzicato_five/[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[28]

  • Country: JP[29]

  • Began / founded: 1984-12-24[30]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2001-03-31[31]

  • Genre(s): art pop, breakbeat, dance, indie pop, lounge, shibuya-kei[32]

  • Community tags: art pop, breakbeat, dance, indie pop, japanese, lounge, shibuya-kei[33]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 1bbb60c9-6b1b-4bb1-a442-2b669436b50e[34]

Body

Founding

1985 marks the founding of Pizzicato Five[23]. Its location of formation is recorded as Tokyo[24].

Why It Matters

Pizzicato Five ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (896 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Related Entities

CBS/Sony Japan

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . japantimes.co.jp. japantimes.co.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . allmusic.com. allmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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