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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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