Yasuyuki Okamura is a Japanese singer-songwriter and music producer.
20 Facts About Yasuyuki Okamura
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Yasuyuki Okamura started his professional career in 1985, and is known internationally for the City Hunter 2 ending theme "Super Girl", and the Space Dandy opening theme "Viva Namida".
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Yasuyuki Okamura was born in Kobe, Japan in 1965, the oldest of two children.
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Yasuyuki Okamura's father worked for Air France, and as a result, his family moved frequently throughout Japan, resulting in rotating through seven elementary and junior high schools.
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Yasuyuki Okamura attended Niigata Higashi High School and formed his first band there, but dropped out in 11th grade to pursue a musical career while working part-time at the nightclub Hacoban.
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Yasuyuki Okamura was highly successful in the late 1980s and early 1990s, first promoted as a teen idol.
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Yasuyuki Okamura claimed during this time that he was most inspired by the singers Seiko Matsuda and Prince.
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Yasuyuki Okamura starred in the film Peach: I'll Do Anything For You with Kahori Fujii and Kazuhiko Kanayama.
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Yasuyuki Okamura was arrested in 2003 for possession of stimulant drugs, but released after pleading that they were necessary as a medicine.
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When returning in 2007, Yasuyuki Okamura started a comeback visually similar to his 1980s look, but was arrested on 5 February 2008 for possession of crystal meth.
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Yasuyuki Okamura was sentenced to two years in prison, and returned to live in Tokyo in 2010.
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In 2011, Yasuyuki Okamura began an official tour again and released the two-part self cover album, Etiquette Pink and Purple.
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Yasuyuki Okamura returned to producing other artists and touring, and began to speak openly about becoming fully sober.
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On 25 December 2023, it was announced that Yasuyuki Okamura had formed the duo Yasuyuki Okamura Kazuyoshi with Kazuyoshi Saito.
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One of impetuses for the group was when Saito appeared on Okamura's NHK Radio 1 radio show Okamura Yasuyuki no Come On Everybody in January 2020 and the two improvised a song together on the spot.
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Yasuyuki Okamura Kazuyoshi won Best Collaboration at the 2024 GQ Men of the Year Awards.
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Yasuyuki Okamura is known for his split use between colourful surrealism and minimalism, with the covers of Home Tutor and Me-imi as the best examples respectively.
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Yasuyuki Okamura was the star of the 1989 film Peach: I'll Do Anything For You.
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The film received mixed to positive reviews, with criticism directed towards the casual, "ad-libbed" nature of the film, while many Yasuyuki Okamura fans enjoyed it for the same reason.
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Yasuyuki Okamura doesn't go to college or have a steady job, but instead spends his days travelling through Tokyo with artist Eriko and punk pizza delivery boy Kinta.