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Kai Michael Hansen (born January 17 1963, in Hamburg, West Germany) is a heavy metal guitarist and vocalist. Hansen is the founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Gamma Ray. He is also the co-founder and former member of German metal band Helloween. He is a prominent figure in power metal and has sold millions of albums worldwide. He is regarded as "the godfather of power metal", having founded three seminal bands in the genre. In 2011, he joined the band Unisonic featuring former Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske. ==Biography== His musical career started in 1978 in a band called Gentry, alongside Iron Savior's co-founder and producer Piet Sielck. In 1983, he and Michael Weikath founded Helloween, where he was guitarist and singer until Michael Kiske took over the microphone for the albums ''Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1'' and ''Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2''. Hansen left the band due to the extensive touring in 1988–89 and went on to form his own power metal band Gamma Ray. Hansen also joined Iron Savior as guitarist in 1997, but quit after a few years to focus his efforts on Gamma Ray. He has now forged a very successful career with Gamma Ray, releasing several albums and playing sold out tours across the globe. Hansen participated in a large number of other projects. He appeared as a guest vocalist on Blind Guardian's albums ''Follow the Blind'' and ''Tales from the Twilight World''. Around the same time, he and fellow Gamma Ray bandmate Dirk Schlächter collaborated on Angra's first full length album ''Angels Cry'', both playing guitar solos in the song "Never Understand". He also collaborated on Angra's album ''Temple of Shadows'' released in 2004 doing vocals for the song "The Temple of Hate". He participated as a guest guitarist on Michael Kiske's debut solo album ''Instant Clarity''. Together with HammerFall he recorded a cover version of Helloween's I Want Out. Hansen played the role of Regrin the dwarf in Avantasia's ''Metal Opera albums'' by Tobias Sammet. Later he was featured in the album The Scarecrow playing guitar in the song "Shelter from the Rain". He was also one of the guest musicians in Avantasia's 2010 world tour, which have put him to play live together with fellow ex-bandmate Michael Kiske, after more than twenty years since he left Helloween. After this tour it was announced, via Michael Kiske's official website, that Hansen would join his new band Unisonic, as they "instantly felt the magic of Helloween years again and had a lot of fun together on and off stage".〔http://www.michael-kiske.de/content/view/63/2/lang,br〕 In 2005, he toured with the young German power/Viking metal band Stormwarrior from his home town of Hamburg as lead singer, playing material from his classic Helloween debut album "Walls of Jericho" – the favorite album and greatest influence of Stormwarrior. "Stormwarrior featuring Kai Hansen" returned in 2007 to play at the Magic Circle Festival in Bad Arolsen and at the Wacken Open Air Festival. In 2008, Hansen played with Stormwarrior at Sweden Rock Festival 2008. In 2011, Hansen joined the hard-rock band Unisonic, as second guitarist and reunited with old friend and ex-Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske, who formed the band in 2009. The band released its debut album, ''Unisonic'' in 2012 and embarked on its first world tour. Hansen stated in an interview that despite being a member of Unisonic, he will not have less focus on Gamma Ray, and that that the next Gamma Ray album should arrive in 2013.〔http://www.uberrock.co.uk/interviews/54-march-interviews/4426-kai-hansen-unisonic-interview-exclusive.html〕 Unisonic's second album, ''Light Of Dawn'', was released in 2014 and a European and Japanese tour followed.〔http://www.ear-music.net/en/news/details/unisonic-announce-new-album-and-ep-for-the-kingdom/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kai Hansen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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