8.Famous Japanese Musician and Producer

   There are many way to become famous concerning music. In overseas or domestic, as musician or composer or producer, for technique of playing instrument or beautiful voice or character of the person. In this article, I show famous Japanese rock musician from the point of active in foreign country and producing.

   Nowadays, Japanese musician tend to held live or performance abroad. Formerly, Japanese artist tried to advance to overseas no more often than recent days. Japanese artists who succeeded in becoming famous in foreign country are not so much before. Sakamoto Q is famous for SUKIYAKI, and he sold thirteen million CD's around the world, this record has not been broken yet. But, the number of bands or artist, whose stronghold is overseas or who often held their live abroad, are increasing these days. I show some example of rock musician who is active in foreign music scene.

     B'z is rock band which is famous in both domestic and overseas. that is made up of two members, Koushi Inaba, vocal and lyricist, and Takahiro Matsumoto, guitar and composition. They debut in 1988 with the song of " Dakara sono te wo hanashite".

They did not succeed in CD single sales at the first. 4th single CD became the number 7, then 5th single, "Taiyou no Komati", became number 1 of ranking of Oricon. After that, they have achieved many big recods in Japan. As the number one record, all sales of single CD - almost 35 million - , the number of single CDs that became number one on the oricon ranking - 45 works -, all sales of CD album - almost 46 million -, and the number of the million sales CDs - 41 works - . And, they awarded Japan gold disk grand prize, Japan yusen grand prize, and so on many times. Moreover, they  are only group that is inducted into a hall of fame of Hollywood Rockwalk.
　

Then, I show famous Japanese producer, Tetsuya Komuro.
Tetsuya Komuro is a musician and producer, and made komuro boom. He has own group of TM Network, famous for "Get Wild", and performance, while he offered many artists.

 

 

 For example, Arisa Mitsuki, Ryouko Shinohara, trf, hitomi, YUki Utida, H Jungle with t, globe, Tomomi Kahara, and Namie Amurro. They achieved big hit or million sales, thus people called the series of hit songs or artists, who were given song of komuro, "Komuro boom" or "Komuro family". 
Now, he is not popular like before, but he has been big artist yet.

   In Japan, famous musisians exists. I hope that you know them little bit in this article.