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Toshimitsu Deyama (Japanese: 出山 利三, Hepburn: Deyama Toshimitsu, born October 10, 1965), known exclusively by his stage name Toshi, [Note 1] is a Japanese singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist and a co-founder of the rock band X Japan, who rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is credited as founders of the visual kei movement.
Dynamite changed its name to Noise in 1978, while they were still in high school. [5] At this time, Toshi played guitar and they had a singer named Kurata. [6] In 1982, Noise disbanded and Yoshiki and Toshi formed a new band, they named it X while they tried to think of another name, [7] but the name stuck. X began to actively perform in the ...
Color (stylized as COLOR) was a Japanese punk rock band formed in Osaka in 1985 by vocalist Dynamite Tommy, who founded the Free-Will record label a year later. [1] [2] They are considered to be important to the formation of visual kei, [2] with the phrase "X of the East, Color of the West" (東のX、西のCOLOR) comparing the importance of the Kansai band to that of X Japan in Kantō.
Yoshiki was born on November 20, 1965, in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, as the elder of two brothers in a musically oriented family.His father was a tap dancer and jazz pianist, his mother played the shamisen, while his aunt played the koto. [14]
Toshihiko Tahara (田原俊彦, born February 28, 1961) is a Japanese idol singer, and solo vocalist, affiliated with Johnny & Associates. [4] In the 1980s he had a number of number 1 singles in Japan.
Brawl Brothers, known in Japan as Rushing Beat Ran (ラッシング・ビート乱 複製都市, Rasshingu Biito Ran: Fukusei Toshi, "Rushing Beat Chaos: The City of Clones"), [1] is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game developed and published by Jaleco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992.
Toshi Seeger (born Toshi Aline Ohta; July 1, 1922 – July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist.A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, her credits include the 1966 film Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, released through PBS in 2007. [1]
Hiroshi Tomioka (Japanese: 冨岡裕, Hepburn: Tomioka Hiroshi), better known by his stage name Dynamite Tommy, is a Japanese musician, record producer and businessman. He first rose to prominence as vocalist of the punk rock band Color in the late-1980s and early-1990s, but now predominantly works behind the scenes running his record label ...