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Lary (singer)

German singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ14538236 ↗
Source-derived summary

Larissa Sirah Herden (born 20 June 1986), known professionally as Lary, is a German singer and actress.

Career

In 2014 she dropped her debut album FutureDeutscheWelle — that's how she describes the type of her music — with the singles System, Sirenen, Jung & Schön, Kryptonit, Propeller and Bedtime Blues. One year later, in 2015 she was featured on German rapper MoTrips hit single So wie du bist, which was certified platinum in Germany. In 2017 she released the single Lieblingssongs along with German rapper and singer Olson.

On 4 May 2018, Lary released the song Das neue Schwarz as the first single of her second studio album Hart fragil, which was released on 20 July 2018. The second single Mond was released on 1 June 2018.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lary (singer)” is german singer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lary, singer and German, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1986, 2014, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-06-20. For this dossier, Lary, singer and German is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “german singer” 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

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q14538236. VIAF identifies the subject as 1590152636066920050395. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lary (singer)” 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.