Tetsuya Komuro
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Tetsuya Komuro (小室哲哉 Komuro Tetsuya, born November 27, 1958 in Fuchu, Tokyo Japan) is a popular Japanese keyboard player, songwriter and music producer.
He got his start as a keyboardist for TM NETWORK in 1984. A year later, in 1985 his first solo works was the soundtrack for the anime Vampire Hunter D, also his band TM Network did the closing credits song "Your Song".
Moreover in 1989, he had played with Warren Cuccurullo as a solo singer.
TM Network renewed its name to TMN in 1990. TMN disbanded in 1994, then in 1999 they had reunited under their old name of TM Network, and remains active to this day.
However by the early 1990s he was spending much of his time writing and producing other bands. In 1991, Komuro collaborated with X Japan's Yoshiki as the V2.
He was an early pioneer of techno/rave music in Japan, and rode the early 1990s disco boom to stardom with a long string of hits with bands such as TRF (TK Rave Factory), Tomomi Kahala, Namie Amuro, globe, hitomi, Ryoko Shinohara and H Jungle with t.
In 1997, he dealt with the remix of the theme music of the action movie "Speed 2: Cruise Control".
He is perhaps best known in the west for his collaboration with French keyboardist Jean-Michel Jarre from 1998 to 2001. The duet wrote the theme song for the 1998 FIFA World Cup ("Together Now") as well as several other tracks and remixes. He and Jean-Michel also performed a concert in Okinawa beaches on January 1st, 2001.
External links
- KOMURO.NET (http://www.komuro.net/)Official site
- ROJAM (http://www.rojam.com/)ROJAM ENTERTAINMENT
- Nippop Profile | Tetsuya Komuro (http://nippop.com/artist/artist_id-127/artist_name-tetsuya_komuro/)