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Your Selection
is a series of four compilation albums by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama, released through King Records on March 7, 2001. Each enhanced CD uses a soap bar motif for the cover and includes a music video of the last track of the disc. ''Your Selection 1'' ''Your Selection 1'' compiles Nakayama's eight most popular songs, as voted on her homepage in late-2000, plus the singles " Love Clover" and "A Place Under the Sun". The album peaked at No. 28 on Oricon's albums chart and sold over 9,000 copies. Track listing Charts ''Your Selection 2'' ''Your Selection 2'' consists of the 10 most popular B-sides, as voted by fans. The album peaked at No. 62 on Oricon's albums chart and sold over 5,000 copies. Track listing Charts ''Your Selection 3'' ''Your Selection 3'' features the 10 most popular non-single songs, as voted by fans. The album peaked at No. 67 on Oricon's albums chart and sold over 4,000 copies. Track listing Charts ''Your Selection 4'' ''Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miho Nakayama
is a Japanese singer and actress. She is affiliated with Big Apple Co., Ltd. Nakayama is nicknamed , and sometimes uses the pseudonyms or when she writes the lyrics. Biography History Nakayama was born in Saku, Nagano, Japan. Following her mother's remarriage, her family moved to Koganei, Tokyo. There, Nakayama attended Koganei Municipal Junior High School. Idol career After being discovered by a talent scout while shopping in Harajuku, she made her debut on 21 June 1985 with her single " C", as well as a starring role in the film '' Be-Bop High School''. Throughout her career as a singer and actress, Nakayama recorded 22 studio albums and scored eight No. 1 singles on Oricon's charts; two of them selling over a million copies each. She also starred in a Famicom Disk System dating sim made by Nintendo titled ''Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School'', in which she played a high school student trying to mask her true identity. Acting career In 1995, director Shunji Iwai cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuro (musician)
, better known by his stage name TAKURO, is a Japanese musician and lyricist best known as one of the guitarists and leader of the rock band Glay, for which he is also the main composer and lyricist. As a musician and composer, Takuro has worked with different artists and has also released solo works. Takuro and his older sister were raised by a single mother, as she never remarried after his father's death, when Takuro was three years old. He considers his mother an early influence in his musical career, as he was strongly impressed by her singing. Biography History Later on, during his adolescence, he would be influenced by John Lennon, and would develop a great interest in writing lyrics. His lyrics are often based on his feelings about different situations in his life, as well as events in the world. Takuro often expresses his opinion on different issues, and has been invited to write about different topics by newspapers. In 2007 he wrote a series of articles about his ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March Color
is the 36th single by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Written by Nakayama, Masato Odake and Yūko Ōtaki, the single was released on June 4, 1997, by King Records. The single peaked at No. 29 on Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...'s weekly singles chart and sold over 25,000 copies. Track listing Charts References External links * * * {{Authority control 1997 singles 1997 songs Japanese-language songs Miho Nakayama songs King Records (Japan) singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayo Okamoto
is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter. Her 1995 debut single "Tomorrow" peaked at number 1 on the Oricon weekly single charts. She released her greatest hits album ''Rise 1'' in 2000. The album topped the Oricon weekly album charts. Expo 2010 Shanghai China theme song plagiarism It was alleged that the promotional song for Expo 2010 Shanghai China, " Right Here Waiting for You 2010", was plagiarized Plagiarism is the fraudulent representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.From the 1995 '' Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary'': use or close imitation of the language and thought ... from Okamoto's 1997 song "Sonomama no Kimi de Ite". Okamoto's agency later announced that the Expo Committee subsequently requested permission to use the song, to which Okamoto's agency agreed.Mainichi"岡本真夜：上海万博ＰＲ曲に盗作された疑いの「そのままの君でいて」が正式決定" (April 19, 2010). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirai E No Present
is the 35th single by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama and a collaboration with Mayo Okamoto (as "Mayo"). Written by Okamoto and Nakayama, the single was released on November 1, 1996, by King Records. Background and release "Mirai e no Present" was Nakayama's second collaboration single since "Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto" in 1992. Co-writer Okamoto performed backing vocals on the song; she later on self-covered the song as "Will... (Mirai e no Present)" on her 1997 album ''Smile''. The song was used as the theme song of the Fuji TV drama series , which also starred Nakayama. The B-side, "Darlin", was used by Astel Tokyo on a commercial that also featured Nakayama. "Mirai e no Present" peaked at No. 6 on Oricon's weekly singles chart, becoming her last career top-10 single. It sold over 409,000 copies and was Nakayama's last single to be certified Platinum by the RIAJ The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Hey
Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's '' Thriller'', ''Rock with You'', '' Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough, Workin’ Day and Night'' and the flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit "''Longer''". Additionally, he has performed with artists such as George Benson, Al Jarreau, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, George Duke, Lionel Ritchie, Rufus and Chaka Kahn, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Patti Austin, among many others. He is known as the Seawind trumpeter and arranger who plays with Gary Grant, Larry Williams and Bill Reichenbach Jr.. Biography Jerry Hey was born in 1950 in Dixon, Illinois to a family of musicians. His mother was a pianist and his father was a trombonist. Jerry also had two older brothers who played the trombone and tuba. After compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurt To Heart (Itami No Yukue)
is the 32nd single by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Written by Keiko Yokoyama, the single was released on July 21, 1995, by King Records. Background and release "Hurt to Heart (Itami no Yukue)" was used as the theme song of the TBS drama series . The B-side, "I Love You", was used as an insert song in the drama. "Hurt to Heart (Itami no Yukue)" peaked at No. 10 on Oricon's weekly singles chart. It sold over 319,000 copies and was certified Gold by the RIAJ The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include p .... Track listing All music is arranged by Jerry Hey. Charts Certification References External links * * * {{Authority control 1995 singles 1995 songs Japanese-language songs Japanese television drama theme songs Miho Nakayama songs King Records (Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tada Nakitaku Naru No
is the 28th single by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Written by Yurie Kokubu, Nakayama, and Masaki Iwamoto, the single was released on February 9, 1994, by King Records. Background "Tada Nakitaku Naru no" is composed in the key of B flat major and set to a tempo of 87 beats per minute. Nakayama's vocals span from G3 to D5. Lyrically, it tells the story of a woman feeling left behind by her friends who are getting married one by one. The song was used as the theme song of the TBS drama series , which also starred Nakayama. Nakayama performed the song on the 45th ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen'' in 1994, marking her seventh and final appearance on NHK's New Year's Eve special. In 2015, she performed the song for the first time in 18 years on national TV during the 2015 FNS Music Festival, earning the most-watched segment of the broadcast. She self-covered the song on her 2019 album ''Neuf Neuf''. Chart performance "Tada Nakitaku Naru no" debuted at number 3 on the Oricon Singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Hisaishi
, known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. He is also known for his piano scores. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, Western classical, and Japanese classical. He has also worked as a music engraver and arranger. He has been associated with director and animator Hayao Miyazaki since 1984, having written scores for all but one of Miyazaki's films. He is also recognized for his music for filmmaker 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, including ''A Scene at the Sea'' (1991), '' Sonatine'' (1993), ''Kids Return'' (1996), '' Hana-bi'' (1997), ''Kikujiro'' (1999), ''Brother'' and ''Dolls'' (2002), and for the video game series '' Ni no Kuni''. He was a student of anime composer Takeo Watanabe. Life and career Early life Hisaishi was born in Nakano, Nagano, Japan, as . He started learnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anata Ni Nara
is the Japanese word for "you". Anata may refer to: * Anata, a Japanese language second-person pronoun, sometimes used by married couples to refer to their partners * Anata (band), a technical death metal band from Varberg, Sweden that formed in 1993 * 'Anata, a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate in the central West Bank *Anata, a festivity celebrated since the early 1990s in the city of Oruro, Bolivia linked to pre-Hispanic agricultural practices * "Anata" (song), a song by Utada Hikaru * "Anata", a song by L'Arc-en-Ciel from their 1998 album ''Heart The heart is a muscular organ in most animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide t ...'' See also * Anatta, the Buddhist doctrine of "non-self" {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Hayama
is a Japanese musical arranger and guitarist under Being Inc. records. Biography In 1978, he debuted with his own blues band under Trio Records. In 1990s he entered to Being recording agency. Takeshi becomes the main arranger of Japanese singer-songwriter Maki Ohguro. Along with Masao Akashi they were the most busy arrangers during 90s. During the same period time he provided arrangements for another Being artist as Zard, Deen or Wands as is under charge of arranging famous million-sells hits as Makenaide, Kono Mama Kimi Dake wo Ubaisaritai, Motto Tsuyoku Kimi wo Dakishimetara or Anata Dake Mitsumeteru. After establishment of Giza Studio he continued providing arrangements for artist as Aiuchi Rina, U-ka Saegusa in dB or Aya Kamiki. Takeshi appears sometimes as a supportive guitarist in hills PanKoujou Live. Since 2012, he's a music teacher of rock and pop department in Senzoku Gakuen of Music. In celebration of his 60 birthday, he held special live with former vocalist of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
