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Ze Gonzales

musical artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ19794275 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zé Gonzales (born José Henrique Castanho de Godoy Pinheiro; April 26, 1969), known by his stage name DJ Zegon, is a Brazilian DJ and producer of electronic music and hip-hop.

He started his career in the 1990s as the band DJ for Planet Hemp, one of the top hip-hop acts in Brazil in the 1990s. In the 2000s, he met and began collaborating with Los Angeles based Squeak E. Clean on the N.A.S.A. project. As of 2012, he formed the bass music group Tropkillaz alongside DJ and Producer Andre Laudz.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ze Gonzales” is musical artist. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gonzales, musical and artist, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gonzales, musical and artist is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “musical artist” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19794275. The first chronological checks are 1969 and 2012.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Ze Gonzales” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.