Stomu Yamashta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stomu Yamashta

Japanese musician

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1947

Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Profession: composer, keyboardist, percussionist, jazz musician

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Stomu Yamashta (or Yamash'ta), born Tsutomu Yamashita (???, Yamashita Tsutomu, 15 March 1947), is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer.
He is best known for pioneering and popularising a fusion of traditional Japanese percussive music with Western progressive rock music in the 1960s and 1970s. In the latter part of the 1970s, he led the supergroup "Go" with Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze, and Michael Shrieve.