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The Holmes Brothers

American blues, gospel, soul, R&B, rock and roll and country band (founded 1979)
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The Holmes Brothers

Summary

The Holmes Brothers is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Holmes Brothers's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • The Holmes Brothers's genre is blues[4].
  • The Holmes Brothers's record label is recorded as Alligator Records[5].
  • The Holmes Brothers's Commons category is recorded as The Holmes Brothers[6].
  • The Holmes Brothers's country of origin is recorded as United States[7].
  • 1979 marks the founding of The Holmes Brothers[8].
  • The Holmes Brothers's official website is recorded as http://www.theholmesbrothers.com/main.html[9].
  • The Holmes Brothers's instrument is recorded as guitar[10].
  • The Holmes Brothers's start of work period is recorded as 1978[11].

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[12]

  • Country: US[13]

  • Began / founded: 1979[14]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2015[15]

  • Genre(s): blues, folk[16]

  • Community tags: blues, folk[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: cc9228cc-0a1a-4e69-95d9-1dfbd91ba3c4[18]

Body

Founding

1979 marks the founding of The Holmes Brothers[8].

Why It Matters

The Holmes Brothers ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

United States

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.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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