1. Tatsuro Yamashita, occasionally referred to as Tatsu Yamashita or Tats Yamashita, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer, who is known for pioneering the city pop style of music.
12 Facts About Tatsuro Yamashita
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Tatsuro Yamashita is sometimes called the "king" of city pop.
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Tatsuro Yamashita was a member of the band Sugar Babe with musicians Taeko Onuki and Kunio Muramatsu, who released their only album Songs in 1975.
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Tatsuro Yamashita's 1979 award-winning album Moonglow gained only moderate success, but his 1980 song Ride on Time reached No 3 on the Japanese Oricon chart and the album of the same name topped the chart subsequently, propelling him to stardom.
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Tatsuro Yamashita's music has been regarded as a symbol of Japanese city pop, as represented by Ride on Time and For You in the early 1980s.
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Tatsuro Yamashita has been called a "sound craftsman" because of his commitment to music-making.
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Tatsuro Yamashita's music is heavily acoustic, but demonstrates a wide range of knowledge about analog and digital recording, and latest musical production technology, including computer programming.
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The English-version of the song, with lyrics by Alan O'Day, was recorded by Tatsuro Yamashita and has been covered by artists such as Pentatonix, the Commodores, All-4-One, and Idina Menzel.
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Tatsuro Yamashita is the most commercially successful Japanese male solo recording artist in the history of the Japanese album chart, selling approximately 9 million albums in total.
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Tatsuro Yamashita has composed for films and television commercials, and worked on records by other artists.
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Tatsuro Yamashita's wife is Mariya Takeuchi, whom he married in 1982.
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Tatsuro Yamashita alleged that Yamashita and his wife Mariya Takeuchi, who belong to the company, were in agreement with the company's policy.