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Remember Shakti – The Believer

live album by Remember Shakti

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ16968499 ↗
Source-derived summary

Remember Shakti – The Believer is a live album by the world fusion band Remember Shakti, that was released in 2000 on the Verve label. The live set features

John McLaughlin on guitar, electric mandolinist U. Srinivas, Vikku Selvaganesh playing ghatam, and tabla player Zakir Hussain. The album peaked number 20 in the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Remember Shakti – The Believer” as live album by Remember Shakti. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Remember, Shakti and Believer.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Remember, Shakti and Believer providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Remember Shakti – The Believer”, the useful work is to connect “live album by Remember Shakti” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16968499. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Remember Shakti – The Believer”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Remember Shakti – The Believer primary sources, Remember Shakti – The Believer archive and Remember research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Remember Shakti – The Believer” 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.