# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kai-hansen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:18:53.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kai-hansen"
name: "Kai Hansen"
slug: "kai-hansen"
description: "Kai Michael Hansen is a German musician who is the founder, lead guitarist and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also one of the co-founders of another power metal band Helloween, which he was a part of from 1983 to 1989 and rejoined in 2016. He is a prominent figure in power metal and has sold millions of albums worldwide. In 2011, he joined the band Unisonic featuring Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske. Hansen and Kiske reunited with Helloween in 2017 for a world tour with all current members, celebrating the 30-year anniversary of release of the albums Keeper of the Seven Keys Parts I and II."
tagline: "German guitarist and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helloween-Kai_Hansen_by_vSpectrum_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1963-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.35
  momentum:             15
  historical:           23.666416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4798403/"
    handle:    "nm4798403"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "カイ・ハンセン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Hansen"
    title: "Kai Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хансен, Кай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kai Hansen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1171370"
    title: "Kai Hansen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump