Ryuichi Sakamoto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese musician

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1952

Place of Birth: Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Profession: actor, composer, record producer, pianist, musician, keyboardist, film score composer, university teacher, music arranger

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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About Ryuichi Sakamoto

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto (?? ??, Sakamoto Ryuichi, born January 17, 1952) (Japanese pronunciation: [sakamoto ????it?i]) is a Japanese composer, singer, songwriter, record producer, activist, and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
  • With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer, and arranger.
  • His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO.
  • He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album Thousand Knives in 1978.
  • Two years later, he released the album B-2 Unit.
  • It included the track "Riot in Lagos", which was significant in the development of electro and hip hop music.
  • He went on to produce more solo records, and collaborate with many international artists, David Sylvian, Carsten Nicolai, Youssou N'Dour, and Fennesz among them.
  • Sakamoto composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and his composition "Energy Flow" (1999) was the first instrumental number-one single in Japan's Oricon charts history.As a film-score composer, Sakamoto has won an Oscar, a BAFTA, a Grammy, and 2 Golden Globe Awards.
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  • Lawrence (1983) marked his debut as both an actor and a film-score composer; its main theme was adapted into the single "Forbidden Colours" which became an international hit.
  • His most successful work as a film composer was The Last Emperor (1987), after which he continued earning accolades composing for films such as The Sheltering Sky (1990), Little Buddha (1993), and The Revenant (2015).
  • On occasion, Sakamoto has also worked as a composer and a scenario writer on anime and video games.
  • In 2009, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the Ministry of Culture of France for his contributions to music.

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