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Japanese folk singers (29 P) Pages in category "Japanese folk musicians" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Hako Yamasaki (山崎ハコ, Yamasaki Hako, born May 18, 1957), [1] (birth name Hatsuko Yamasaki (山崎 初子)) is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter, actor, and writer.She recorded her first album in 1975. [2]
Min'yō, traditional Japanese folk song, must be distinguished from what the Japanese call fōku songu, from the English phrase 'folk song'. These are Western-style songs, often guitar-accompanied and generally recently composed, of the type associated with Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary and the like, and popular in Japan since the 1960s.
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...
Yoshio Akeboshi (明星嘉男, Akeboshi Yoshio), more commonly known as Akeboshi (アケボシ), is a Japanese folk singer. He is mainly known for the song Wind, used as an ending theme for the first season of the anime Naruto. His surname means "bright star," while his given name means "fine man." Akeboshi was born on July 1, 1978, in Yokohama
Minyo Crusaders (Japanese: 民謡クルセイダーズ) is a Japanese musical group that reworks traditional Japanese folk songs with arrangements inspired by various international music genres, including Caribbean, Latin and African music. The group was co-founded by Katsumi Tanaka and Freddie Tsukamoto, with the goal of reviving min'yō as a ...
Nobuyasu Okabayashi (Japanese: 岡林 信康, Hepburn: Okabayashi Nobuyasu, born July 22, 1946) [1] is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter whose career spans more than 50 years. Often compared to Bob Dylan , Rolling Stone Japan called him an icon of Japan's politically turbulent 1960s and 1970s.