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Lars Holte

Norwegian musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ6491541 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lars Petter Holte (born 31 January 1966) is a Norwegian trance DJ and producer. Known under the name DJ Lars Holte he was mostly active during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was central to the development and growth of the genre through the 1990s and in the 2000s he played on several big events like Hyperstate and SommerParade, and worked closely with Tiësto.

Holte has released three records with mixes of other artists and a small number of songs produced by himself.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-01-31. The account is most persuasive where Lars, Holte and Norwegian 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 norwegian musician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Feb 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6491541. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lars Holte” 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.