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Raphael

Japanese visual kei rock band
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Raphael

Summary

Raphael is a musical group[1]. Raphael ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (138 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Raphael's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Raphael's genre is progressive rock[4].
  • Raphael's genre is visual kei[5].
  • Raphael's genre is art rock[6].
  • Raphael's record label is recorded as Sony Music Records[7].
  • Raphael's country of origin is recorded as Japan[8].
  • Raphael comprises Yuki Sakurai[9].
  • Raphael comprises Kazuki Watanabe[10].
  • 1997 marks the founding of Raphael[11].
  • Raphael's location of formation is recorded as Japan[12].
  • Raphael's official website is recorded as https://www.forlife.co.jp/raphael/[13].
  • Raphael's languages spoken, written or signed is recorded as Catalan[14].
  • Raphael's start of work period is recorded as 1997[15].

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.

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  • Type: Group[16]

  • Country: JP[17]

  • Began / founded: 1997-03[18]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2016-11-01[19]

  • Genre(s): visual kei[20]

  • Community tags: likedis auto, visual kei[21]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 2521d863-e9f2-497c-b7c3-35c4c0079c81[22]

Body

Founding

1997 marks the founding of Raphael[11]. Raphael's location of formation is recorded as Japan[12].

Why It Matters

Raphael ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (138 views/month).[2] Raphael has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23]

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . 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.

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

  1. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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