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Shaka Loveless
Person · male · Kingdom of Denmark · Aarhus · born 1984
Danish rapper and singer
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Also known as 沙卡·洛夫莱斯
Timeline
1980s
Biography
Biography
Shaka Loveless Grøn (born 5 March 1984) is a Danish rapper and singer with reggae roots. He is also a lead vocalist for the Danish hip-hop / R&B band The Gypsies (earlier known as The Electric Gypsies with a more rock-oriented sound).
Shaka Loveless is the son of famous blues player James Loveless and has been a regular part of the Danish blues scene, as a solo artist, and in his long collaboration as member of Shades of Blue, where he played with guitarist Uffe Steen, bassist Morten Brauner and drummer Claus Daugaard.
Besides being lead vocalist for The Gypsies, he has also developed a successful solo career with his 2012 charting hit "Tomgang" that rose to No. 1 on the Danish Singles Chart. The platinum selling single "Tomgang" is produced by Donkey Sound like the rest of his debut album which was released by Universal Music in October 2012.
Albums
with The Gypsies
2007: One Hand Up
2009: For the Feeble Hearted
solo
Singles
with The Gypsies
2007: "Underground"
2008: "Part of Me"
2009: "The Mirror"
2009: "American Girl"
Solo
Featured in
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Shaka Loveless head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7462535seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_Lovelessbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_Loveless
Why this artist is in the database
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Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Kim Matthäi Leland · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q7462535 · MusicBrainz: bb757041-0d2a-48ea-a625-887f3a781575
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