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XPQ-21

German electronic band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ2797877
Source-derived summary

XPQ-21 are a German electronic body music band, led by Jeyênne. They are best known for their hits "White And Alive", "Rockin' Silver Knight" and "Dead Body".

History

XPQ-21 was formed as a duo in 1998, consisting of Jeyênne and Nicque. They released their first single A Gothic Novel in 1998 and their album Destroy To Create in 1999.

Following Nicque leaving XPQ-21 in 2003, Jeyênne was joined by various new members. Live members have included Annelie Bertilsson (Cat Rapes Dog, And One), Martin Hillebrand, Moritz Zielke and Andy Haywire.

XPQ-21 returned in 2022 with the new single Machines on Monsters & Heroes, their own label.

In April 2022 Machines reached No. 2 in the Deutsche Alternative Charts (DAC) (German Alternative Charts). Their next single Temptation reached No.

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“XPQ-21” enters the record as german electronic band. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what XPQ-21, German and electronic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 1999, 2003, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around XPQ-21, German and electronic.
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“XPQ-21” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, XPQ-21, German and electronic provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2797877. VIAF identifies the subject as 127466096. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998, 1999, 2003 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from XPQ-21” 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.