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Michael Weikath

マイケル・ヴァイカート　/　まいける・ゔぁいかーと

American musician

August 7, 1962 (age 63)　・　Hamburg, United States

musician
guitarist

My Take

Michael Weikath, or Weiki to fans, is one of the architects of power metal whether casual listeners realize it or not. As a founding guitarist of Helloween, he helped shape the melodic, speedy, almost triumphant sound that a whole genre later copied. I think his songwriting is underrated next to the band's bigger vocal personalities, but tracks rooted in his playing are the ones that defined the Keeper of the Seven Keys era for me. The data here oddly lists him as American, but he is German, born in Hamburg, and that German metal scene of the 1980s is exactly the soil this music grew from.

Overview

Michael Ingo Joachim "Weiki" Weikath (born 7 August 1962) is a German musician, best known as a founding member and one of the guitarists of pioneering power metal band Helloween.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Michael Weikath
Name (Japanese): マイケル・ヴァイカート
Reading: まいける・ゔぁいかーと
Born: August 7, 1962 (age 63)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Tiger
Origin: Hamburg, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: musician / guitarist

2. Background

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3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88

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