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Urga (band)

Swedish band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ10710494 ↗
Source-derived summary

Urga are a Swedish music group that have released several albums under the Swedish record label Silence Records. A notable aspect of the band's music is the use of an invented language called 'Urganska'. They have also performed in Cirkus Cirkörs one of Scandinavia's leading performing circus companies.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Urga (band)” as swedish band. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 48-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. The account is most persuasive where Urga, band and Swedish can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as swedish band. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10710494. VIAF identifies the subject as 126288778. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Urga (band)” 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.