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Gobbinjr

musical artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ56249717 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gobbinjr (stylized in all lowercase), the stage name of musician Emma Witmer, is an American indie pop musician from New York City.

History

Emma Witmer grew up in Wisconsin. She began releasing music as a student at New York University. Witmer released her first full-length album titled Manalang on Yellow K Records. In 2016, Witmer released her first EP titled vom night. In 2018, she released her second full-length album; it was her first on the record label Topshelf Records.

Editorial summary

“Gobbinjr” enters the record as musical artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gobbinjr, musical and artist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gobbinjr, musical and artist.
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Why this record matters

“Gobbinjr” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gobbinjr, musical and artist provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Feb 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56249717. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gobbinjr” 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.