‘Music’ Archives
KITARO still goes on SILK ROAD
I like a Japanese musician called KITARO. Some may know this guy as he won Grammy award several times in the USA. His music is a synthesizer based music but its sound is really warm and it has human sensitivity without mechanical image. 30 years ago or so, Japanese national TV station, NHK, had a popular program telling about SILK ROAD, [...]
Bob Dylan is on tour in Japan now
Starting from March 11th, Bob Dylan is now on his concert tour in Japan until 29th of March. I like him, but I didn't touch his music so often. Maybe I think he is an artist rather than a singer or musician. I like to hear his words, and I like to know how he thinks of today's world. It's a kind of measure of our life today, I think like [...]
Monkey Magic by Godiego
There used to be a good music group called GODIEGO. Back in 1980's, GODIEGO was probably one of the top hit makers in Japan. The band members were all nice musicians with high music technique and music knowledge background. They made some hits, especially when they produced a TV program song album in Japan, they had the big time. MONKEY [...]
Keiko Maruyama, a sophisticated songwriter, with Megumi Oishi
Keiko Maruyama(photo) is a singer/songwriter of Japan. Now she is not that active, so some old fans only know the songs of her old time. Her songs are very sophisticated and they made gentlemen of Japan feel happy at the time. This song is Douzo Konomama, or "Please leave as it is" in English translation. Song is backed up by bossa nova [...]
WAKAREUTA – Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima is regarded as an old singer now. But probably her presence in Japanese music is still influential. She doesn't have many hit songs. Maybe 10 to 15 at most. She has been singing more than 30 years, so the hit song mumbers are not many to her career. But some songs of hers are still in the heart of the Japanese [...]
Susan Boyle to Japan in April
Susan Boyle came to Japan last year and she joined the national TV program on December 31st then. She was known to Japanese before that stage but probably that show made her more famous in Japan as it has usually about 50% rating every year. Her first concert tour in Japan seems to have been decided. Coming April she will sing in the Budokan, [...]
John Lennon Museum to be closed
There is John Lennon Museum in Saitama ( close to Tokyo ), Japan. This museum was built about 10 years ago under the licence from Yoko Ono. Recently this museum announced that they would close it soon. This was intended to close 5 years after the opening, but people liked it. It stayed more 5 years in Japan. All the exhibits in the [...]
Whitney Houston in Japan
It's the 7th Japan concert tour for Whitney Houston, and her last tour in Japan was 1997. 13 years have passed since then. During the last decade, her gossip was too much. Most of the news about her coming from the world was not good news. As far as I read the report of the concert, it seems not to be bad at all. Although Whitney looks [...]
WINGS TO FLY-Susan Boyle…Great !
SUSAN BOYLE came out to the world with her amazing voice. And again, she made it. Her Japanese debut CD, I dreamt a dream, has a bonus track called WINGS TO FLY. Please listen to it by clicking above YouTube Video. This is an old hit song in Japan, which was sung by also an old pop group called AKAI TORI or Red Birds in English [...]
HIKARU UTADA says Good bye to her new lover
HIKARU UTADA is, probably, the Japanese top musician who can work not only in Japan but in the world. She was born in the USA and her bilingual ability helps herself work in the world music market. Also her parents are also singer and producer respectively, so her destiny to become a musician might have been decided when she was born [...]
