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49th Japan Record Awards
The 49th Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the New National Theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo, on December 30, 2007, starting at 6:30PM JST. The primary ceremonies were televised in Japan on TBS. Awards winners *Japan Record Award: Tsubomi **Artist and Arranger: Kobukuro **Songwriter and Composer: Kentaro Kobuchi **Record companies: Warner Music Japan *Best Vocal Performance: Exile *Best New Artist: Cute *Gold Awards: **ayaka ** w-inds. **Exile **Ai Otsuka **Miyuki Kawanaka **Kumi Koda **Kobukuro **Kiyoshi Hikawa **BoA **Kaori Mizumori *New Artist Awards: ** Cute ** Jyongri **Stephanie ** Satomi Takasugi See also * 58th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen References External linksOfficial Website {{Japan Record Awards Japan Record Awards Japan Record Awards Japan Record Awards Japan Record Awards is a major music awards show, held annually in Japan that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association. Until 2005, the show aired on New Year's Eve, but ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New National Theatre Tokyo
The is Japan's first and foremost national centre for the performing arts, including opera, ballet, contemporary dance and drama. It is located in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. Since 1997 more than 650 productions were staged. There are about 300 performances per season with approximately 200,000 theatergoers. The centre has been praised for its architecture and state-of-the-art modern theatre facilities, which are considered among the best in the world. In 2007, the NNTT was branded with the advertising slogan: ''Opera Palace, Tokyo''. Background The construction of the NNTT was completed in February 1997. Its first public performances took place in October of that year. The Tokyo Opera City Tower is connected to the theatre. It has concert halls, an art gallery, a media-art museum, office space, many restaurants and shops. The combined complex of the skyscraper tower and the theatre is called the "Tokyo Opera City". Besides the public performances, various enterprises are under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayaka
, known simply as Ayaka, is a female Japanese singer, songwriter and record producer formerly signed to Warner Music Japan. Born in Osaka, she moved to Tokyo to pursue a singing career. She married actor Hiro Mizushima on February 22, 2009. Biography Early life In the summer of 2003, Ayaka began a live performance in her hometown of Osaka. In the spring of 2004, she started going to the music school "Voice", the principal of which is her former music producer Yoshihiko Nishio, in Fukuoka. She commuted between Osaka and Fukuoka every weekend and started to learn a songwriting under the direction of Nishio. She eventually transferred to another high school in Fukuoka. The Demo (music), demo of songs which she produced in "Voice" was soon brought to the music industry and led to her contract with Warner Music Japan. 2006 In January 2006, Ayaka recorded "I Believe (Ayaka song), I Believe" as the opening theme for the Japanese drama ''Rondo''. The full single was first released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 2007 Events In Asia
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian calendar, Julian and Gregorian calendars and is also the last of seven months to have a length of 31 days. December got its name from the Latin word ''decem'' (meaning 10 (number), ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the Roman calendar#Legendary 10 month calendar, calendar of Romulus which began in March. The winter days following December were not included as part of any month. Later, the months of January and February were created out of the monthless period and added to the beginning of the calendar, but December retained its name.Macrobius, ''Saturnalia'', tr. Percival Vaughan Davies (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), book I, chapters 12–13, pp. 89–95. In Ancient Rome, as one of the four Agonalia, this day in honour of Sol Indiges was held on December 11, as was Septimontium. Glossary of ancient Roman religion#dies natalis, Dies natalis (birthday) was held at the tem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 In Japanese Music
The following is an overview of the year 2007 in Japanese music. It includes notable awards, lists of number-ones, yearly best-sellers, albums released, groups established and disestablished, deaths of notable Japanese music-related people as well as any other relevant Japanese music-related events. For overviews of the year in music from other countries, see 2007 in music. Events *December 31 – 28th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen Awards *May 26 – 2007 MTV Video Music Awards Japan *December 30 – 49th Japan Record Awards Number-ones * Oricon number-one albums * Oricon number-one singles Best-sellers Albums The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling albums in Japan in 2007, according to Oricon. Albums released The following section includes albums by Japanese artists released in Japan in 2007 as well as Japanese-language albums by foreign artists released in the country during this year. *February 2 – ''The Marrow of a Bone'' by Dir En Grey *February 28 – ''A Best 2: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Music Awards
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
58th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen
The , referred to from here on as "Kōhaku," aired on December 31, 2007, on NHK Hall in Japan. The music show on New Year's Eve is broadcast on both television and radio, and divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. Air time was from 19:20 to 23:45 (with an interruption from 21:25 to 21:30 for news). All times are JST. Chairpersons *Red team host: Masahiro Nakai *White team host: Tsurube Shōfukutei *Mediators: Kazuya Matsumoto and Miki Sumiyoshi *Radio announcers: Sen Odagiri and Ai Tsukahara Performance listing Results The winners were the shirogumi, the white team, which was revealed by illuminating the darkened Tokyo Tower in blue-white light. Viewing percentages in the Kantō region were 32.8% for the first section and 39.5% for the second. Judges * Aoi Miyazaki * Momoko Ueda * Hideki Okajima * Isao Aoki * Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII * Yui Aragaki * Ken Mogi * Mariko Bando * Tomonori Jinnai External links 58th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satomi Takasugi
is a Japanese pop singer, race queen, and former gravure idol. She is signed to Avex Trax sub-label Rhythm Zone and represented by the talent agency, Platinum Production. She is a former member of the avex girl group With, with fellow gravure idols Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Iori, and Kana Hoshino. Biography In 2001, Takasugi was discovered in Shibuya by the Platinum Production agency. While still in high school at the age of 16, in 2002 Takasugi along with Chinatsu Wakatsuk, Iori, and Kana Hoshino formed the gravure idol group With. As well as serving as gravure idols, the group also sang on the Avex label. The group went on to release a photobook but disbanded soon after, having little success. In 2006, Takasugi made her first live performance at "Rhythm Nation 2006" sponsored by Avex, playing a cover of Yoshiyuki Osawa's "Soshite Boku wa Tohō ni Kureru". The song was later released promotionally on the radio and other media. Takasugi became part of Rhythm Zone, a sub-label of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie (singer, Born August 1987)
Stephanie Nonoshita Topalian; Western Armenian: (born August 5, 1987), known simply as , is an American singer and actress of Armenian and Japanese descent who is signed with SME Records Japan, which is a part of Sony Music. She released two albums: her self-titled debut in 2008 and ''Colors of my Voice'' in 2009. She has won the Japanese Music Awards in 2007. A number of her songs have been featured in several Japanese films. She had roles in a few Japanese films, notably ''Pride'' and '' Tokyo Tribe''. In 2015, she represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 as a member of Armenian super group project Genealogy with the song " Face the Shadow". Early life and education She was born to a Japanese mother and an Armenian father in Los Angeles, California. Although she is residing in Japan, she has a strong commitment to her Armenian background and is very attached to her grandparents. Her paternal grandmother Koharik Mikaelian Topalian was born in Lebanon and her pate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jyongri
Jyongri (born August 30, 1988) is a Japanese pop singer of Korean ancestry currently signed with EMI Music Japan. Biography Background and early life Jyongri attended Osaka International School, and is fluent in both English and Japanese. She began learning to play the piano at the age of eight. It was not until Jyongri was eleven when she decided to become a singer; she started writing her own lyrics at this age. In 2004, when she was fifteen years old, she attended a five-week-long summer program at the Berklee College of Music. During this period Jyongri started to write her own music. Jyongri started working on her musical activities in June 2006 after graduating from Osaka International School. Jyongri was a student in Waseda University, a popular choice among other famous celebrities around the world. ''Close to Fantasy'' (2006–2007) In September 2006, a music video for a ballad titled "Wherever" started airing on music video channels, despite the fact that J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaori Mizumori
(born 31 August 1973, Kita, Tokyo) is a Japanese enka singer with Tokuma Japan Communications is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, m .... Her real name is . She started her enka singing career in 1995. Her songs are usually titled after Japanese landmarks and Japanese nature, which are widely accepted and well received, making Mizumori extremely popular and receiving many invitations to be the ambassador of many regions in Japan. Unlike her enka singing peers, Mizumori usually performs in Western dresses, instead of the traditional kimono. Currently she holds the record of having the most top ten singles for a female enka singer. All her singles have entered the top 10 Oricon Chart since 2004. Mizumori is also a regular at the annual NHK Red and White Song Festival, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyoshi Hikawa
is a Japanese enka singer who was born on September 6, 1977 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.Hikawa Kiyoshi: Profile Columbia Music Entertainment. Accessed May 6, 2008. His real name is and he is known as due to his young age and popularity. When he is marketing non-enka music, he goes by the name KIYOSHI, using capitalized letters of the Roman alphabet, instead of ''kanji'' or ''hiragana. His record company is Columbia Music Entertainment, and his agency is Nagara Productions. He was given his stage name by Takeshi Kitano, who initially supported his career. Today, Hikawa makes frequent appearances on , as well as NHK's annual ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen. History Hikawa was born on September 6, 1977 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. As a high school student, Hikawa was ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumi Koda
, known professionally as , is a Japanese singer from Kyoto, known for her urban and R&B songs. After debuting with the single "Take Back" in December 2000, Koda gained fame in March 2003 when the songs from her seventh single, "Real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba", were used as themes for the video game ''Final Fantasy X-2''. Her popularity grew with the release of her fourth studio album ''Secret'' (2005), her sixteenth single "Butterfly" (2005), and her first greatest hits album '' Best: First Things'' (2005), reaching the number-three, number-two, and number-one spots respectively. Though her early releases presented a conservative, quiet image, she has become a fashion leader among young women, setting trends such as the ero-kakkoii style. In 2006 and 2007, Oricon named Koda as the top selling artist of the year. Life and career Early life Koda was born into a family of musicians. Her grandfather was a Shakuhachi master and her mother was a Koto teacher; she is the older ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
