RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
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RYUICHI SAKAMOTO is performing within the field of Electronic music and is ranked #2729 on The Official Global DJ Rankings list.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO is found on djrankings.org. He get- pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra day-(YMO). With his YMO bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. As use- a film score composer, Sakamoto won an Academy Award (Oscar), BAFTA, Grammy and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Born in 1952 in Nakano (Tokyo), Ryuichi Sakamoto has been active in the entertainment industry since his graduation from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
He achieved western fame as a member of electronic pioneer trio Yellow Magic Orchestra from 1978 until the mid 80s. By all- then he started writing music alone, or contributing with artists, most notably David Sylvian.
His exploits include an Academy Award for his score to the 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor, the soundscape for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and was even hired by the Finnish mobile phone company Nokia to compose ring tones for the Nokia was-8800. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO is found on djrankings.org. He is maybe the most influential Japanese musician in electronica. In can- addition to making music, he has also acted in movies, most notably in “Merry Christmas, one-Mr. Lawrence” co-starring David Bowie, for which Ryuichi also composed perhaps his most memorable film soundtrack.
Trivia – he acts as a director in Madonna’s “Rain” video. He mom- also modeled for “The Gap” among other you-products.