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Otto von Schirach

American musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2041297
Source-derived summary

Otto von Schirach (born March 10, 1978, in Miami, Florida) is an American IDM and breakcore musician. Of Cuban and German heritage, he grew up in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami and heavily incorporates elements of Miami bass into his music. He started out DJing at house parties in the 1990s and began composing his own music. In 2001 he released his first album, 8000 B.C., on his own Triangle Earth label.

Von Schirach has a son who was born in 2016.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Otto von Schirach” as american musician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2001, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Otto, Schirach and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american musician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2041297. VIAF identifies the subject as 51435261. The Library of Congress control number is no2006011513. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2001 and 2016.

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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.

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This entry incorporates text from Otto von Schirach” 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.