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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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