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Michele Guaitoli

Italian singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ65187103 ↗
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Michele Guaitoli (born 12 April 1985 in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia) is an Italian metal singer, music producer, songwriter, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist. Known for his work in symphonic metal and power metal, he is currently the lead singer for Visions of Atlantis, Temperance and Era.

Career

He began music at the age of seven with piano lessons, perfecting his skills in modern singing and jazz in adulthood.

In 2003 he joined the Italian heavy metal band Overtures in which he is not active anymore. The debut album Beyond the Waterfall was released 2008.

He has been singing for the Italian power metal band Temperance since spring 2018 and can be heard on four of the band's studio albums.

In late 2018 he also joined the symphonic metal band Visions of Atlantis, having previously replaced then-singer Siegfried Samer on a couple of gigs. Together with the Austrians he has already released three studio records and three live records and has played concerts not only in many European countries but also in Latin and North America. He also performed at major festivals with the band. Among them the German Wacken Open Air, the Masters of Rock in the Czech Republic or the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Michele Guaitoli” as italian singer. 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—1985, 2003, 2008, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-04-12. The account is most persuasive where Michele, Guaitoli and Italian 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 italian singer. 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 Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65187103. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2003, 2008 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Michele Guaitoli” 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.