John Kay

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86

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Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1922-07-21

Active to

2016-11-03

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John Kay (born Joachim Fritz Krauledat; April 12, 1944) is an American rock singer, songwriter and guitarist known as the frontman of Steppenwolf. Early Life Kay was born on April 12, 1944 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). His father Fritz, born 1913 in Absteinen near Pogegen in the Memelland (today Opstainys in Pagėgiai Municipality, Lithuania), was killed a month before Kay was born. In early 1945, Kay's <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Kay">

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

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5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 29,119x

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Music

Official website

Steppenwolf

Official website of the classic rock pioneers Steppenwolf. Led by John Kay, Steppenwolf's blazing biker anthem "Born to Be Wild" roared out of speakers everywhere in the fiery summer of 1968, John Kay's threatening rasp sounding a mesmerizing call to arms to the counterculture movement rapidly sprouting up nationwide.

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