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Jay and the Americans

American musical group; rock band
Organization musical_group Q1038771
Jay and the Americans
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Jay and the Americans

Summary

Jay and the Americans is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,424 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Jay and the Americans's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Jay and the Americans's genre is rock music[4].
  • Jay and the Americans's genre is blue-eyed soul[5].
  • Jay and the Americans's record label is recorded as United Artists Records[6].
  • Jay and the Americans's Commons category is recorded as Jay and the Americans[7].
  • Jay and the Americans's country of origin is recorded as United States[8].
  • January 1, 1960 marks the founding of Jay and the Americans[9].
  • Jay and the Americans's location of formation is recorded as New York City[10].
  • Jay and the Americans's official website is recorded as http://www.jayblackthevoice.com/[11].
  • Jay and the Americans's start of work period is recorded as 1960[12].
  • Jay and the Americans's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Jay and the Americans'}[13].

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[14]

  • Country: US[15]

  • Began / founded: 1960[16]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1973[17]

  • Genre(s): blue-eyed soul, rock[18]

  • Community tags: blue-eyed soul, rock[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 4d3279bc-b3de-45da-aa2c-2274ef08c6dd[20]

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Founding

January 1, 1960 marks the founding of Jay and the Americans[9]. Its location of formation is recorded as New York City[10].

Why It Matters

Jay and the Americans ranks in the top 4% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,424 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

New York City United States

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] ↑ . 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.

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

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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