Michael Franti

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Italy

Active from

1982

Active to

1987

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

128,177

Total plays

1,238,385

Michael Franti (born April 21, 1966, in Oakland, California) is an African, Irish, and German American poet, musician, and composer. Franti is the creator and driving force behind Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, folk, and rock. Franti was part of the industrial punk band The Beatnigs with DJ Rono Tse, which released a self-titled LP, and an EP Television on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles records. <a href="https:

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 88,512x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,837x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,827x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,586x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,551x

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Quotes

• “Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.”
• “The harder they hit us, the louder we become, kind of like the skin on a drum.”
• “Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime”
• “We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.”
• “Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!”
• “Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Michael

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Oakland

Occupation

basketball player

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

funk

Instrument

voice

Record label

Capitol Records

Sport

basketball

Official website

www.stayhuman.org

Image

Michael Franti and Spearhead @ Fremantle Park (17 4 2011) (5648770710).jpg

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