1. Tetsuya Komuro is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer.
16 Facts About Tetsuya Komuro
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Tetsuya Komuro is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and has introduced contemporary electronic dance music to the Japanese mainstream.
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Tetsuya Komuro was a former owner of the disco Velfarre located in Roppongi, Tokyo.
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Tetsuya Komuro's career started as a keyboardist for Speedway in 1979.
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Tetsuya Komuro subsequently composed other soundtracks such as Heaven and Earth and Seven Days War.
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Tetsuya Komuro was an early pioneer of dance music in Japan, and came to stardom in the 1990s as producer with a long string of hits with artists such as TRF, Tomomi Kahala, Namie Amuro, Ami Suzuki, hitomi, Ryoko Shinohara and H Jungle with t In 1994, he composed the musical score to the Japanese anime film Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, based on the Capcom video game.
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Tetsuya Komuro was mainly helped in this task by the mix engineers Pete Hammond and Dave Ford.
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Tetsuya Komuro released albums as a solo singer or musician and was involved in the bands Globe, Kiss Destination and Gaball.
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Tetsuya Komuro worked in collaboration with French keyboardist Jean Michel Jarre from 1998 to 2001.
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Tetsuya Komuro admitted the fraud at his trial in January 2009.
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On May 11,2009, Tetsuya Komuro received a suspended three-year prison sentence.
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At the Avex Group Holdings' concert tour a-nation 2009, Tetsuya Komuro made a surprise appearance on August 22,2009.
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Tetsuya Komuro played a medley of his hit songs at the piano and later reunited on stage with his fellow members of the J-pop group globe, Marc Panther and his wife Keiko Yamada.
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Tetsuya Komuro composed almost all the songs on Love Songs, the 2010 album of Japanese pop-star Ayumi Hamasaki.
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Tetsuya Komuro composed the 2013 single "Feel The Love" by Ayumi Hamasaki.
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In January 2018, Tetsuya Komuro announced his retirement from the music industry, following revelations of an affair he had with a nurse who had been taking care of his wife Keiko after her brain surgery.