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K.K.K.K.K.

album by Kahimi Karie

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ6322958 ↗
Source-derived summary

K.K.K.K.K. is the second studio album by Japanese musician Kahimi Karie. It was released on July 15, 1998 by Crue-L Records and Polydor Records. In the United States, K.K.K.K.K. was issued on October 26, 1999 by Le Grand Magistery, following Kahimi Karie (1998) as Karie's second American album release.

Like most Kahimi Karie albums, the songs are predominantly sung in English, though several are written in French. A song with lyrics by Karie herself is also included ("What Is Blue?"), rare in her early work.

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The public source identifies “K.K.K.K.K.” as album by Kahimi Karie. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around album, Kahimi and Karie.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-07-15. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with album, Kahimi and Karie providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6322958. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “K.K.K.K.K.” 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.