The Essence (feat. Chaka Khan)

Recording by Herbie Hancock.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
FR6F31341830
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xe6c382e61512f40c575d9822146d212b47ca81e6639361ff064dc687b581684a
Copyright registration time
2026-07-06T05:53:19+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-06T06:56:49Z
Bitcoin block
956889
Canonical record hash
sha256:e5fb7e346df509baae8ede8b5b4f96ff3b470d0a7ebc917aed994bf73ebb2ad9

What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.