MISATO WATANABE ( 渡辺美里 ) | ru

Watanabe Misato (渡辺 美里, born 12 July 1966) is a female Japanese pop music artist. Her debut single 'I'm free' was released by Epic Sony (now Epic Record Japan) on 2 May 1985. It was a cover of a track with the same title from the Footloose original soundtrack. The b-side of the single was another cover song 'Don't Cry', a song from the band Asia. Her first number-one national chart place was 'My Revolution', composed by Tetsuya Komuro, in 1986. Apart from 'My Revolution', Misato also has a number of hit singles reaching the Top 3. Misato's first album...

Садао Ватанабе (Sadao Watanabe) родился 1 февраля 1933 года в Точиги (Япония) в семье учителя музыки. Благодаря отцу Садао с ранних лет обучался игре на кларнете, играл на нём в школьной группе, позже переключился на альт-саксофон. В возрасте 18 лет, в 1951 году приехал в Токио и брал частные уроки у флейтиста из симфонического оркестра Филармонии Токио. В 1955 году Садао Ватанабе вошел в квартет Тошико Акиёши (Toshiko Akiyoshi), в 1956 возглавил его после отъезда пианистки в США. В 1960 году Ватанабе отправляется на обучение в музыкальный колледж «Berklee College Of Music» (Бостон), а так же продолжает свою музыкальную карьеру...

The Watanabes are an international indie pop band performing and recording in Tokyo. They enjoy drinking banana juice together and are keen students of Ikebana. The band began life in the orange-laden prefecture of Ehime, and named themselves Watanabe in tribute to the warm and friendly people of the region, whilst also alluding to British indie favourites The Smiths.Three years later, they packed up and shifted to Tokyo in search of new inspiration and regular trains. In February 2011 The Watanabes released their second album ‘You’re Dancing I’m Absorbed’ on Manchester based label BabyBoom Records. Recorded under the wise Glaswegian...

Born in Tokyo in 1969, Misato Mochizuki has obtained a Masters degree in composition at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo in 1992. She then moved to Paris and obtained a First prize for composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in 1995 in the class of Paul Méfano and Emmanuel Nunes. She then integrated the “Composition and Computer Music” program at IRCAM in 1996 and 1997 under the direction of Tristan Murail. The works of Misato Mochizuki have obtained numerous international awards and distinctions. Among them: Fellowship award for the Darmstadt Summer...

Takashi started DJing as a student in Fukuoka (the home of Tonkotsu Ramen), and claimed his deejaying moniker (he DJ’s as DJ Warp) thanks to the Warp label t-shirt he was wearing the first time he spun records. In the intervening years he’s developed a taste for superb hard house and deep – minimalistic techno, and – after a stint in Okayama, where he ran small underground techno events “Pulse”, he moved back to Kyushu, where he now spins, makes music and runs Missile parties in Kagoshima. .