Japanese Record Producers - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ringo Sheena, Verbal, Mai Kuraki, Tatsuro Yamashita, Taku Takahashi, Lyrics Born, Susumu Hirasawa, T (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ringo Sheena, Verbal, Mai Kuraki, Tatsuro Yamashita, Taku Takahashi, Lyrics Born, Susumu Hirasawa, Tetsuya Komuro, Yasuaki Shimizu, Tak Matsumoto, DJ Honda, Masaharu Fukuyama, Tsunku, Misia, Masataka Matsutoya, Hiro, Seiji Kameda, Yasutaka Nakata, Kazuhiko Kato, Tatsuya Kimura, TAKUYA, Nigo, Yasushi Akimoto, Yoshi Terashima, Tetsur Oda, M.c.A.T, Shin Terai, Max Matsuura, K.A.Z, Teruzane Utada, Hoppy Kamiyama, Jun Sasaki, Takeshi Furukawa, Toshiro Yabuki, Yoshiharu Abe, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Koss. Excerpt: Yumiko Shiina Shiina Yumiko, born on November 25, 1978), known by her stage name Ringo Shiina Shiina Ringo), is a Japanese singer-songwriter, music composer and music producer. She is also the founder and lead vocalist of the band Tokyo Jihen. She describes herself as "Shinjuku-kei Jisaku-Jien-ya a Shinjuku-style writer-performer)." She was ranked number 36 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians compiled by HMV in 2003. Shiina was born in Urawa (now part of Saitama), Saitama Prefecture, to K tar Shiina, an employee of the oil companies, and Akiko, a homemaker. She was born with an esophageal atresia in which the esophagus narrows as it approaches the stomach. Treatment of this involved several operations, at least one of which required her right shoulder blade to be cut open. These surgeries left Shiina with large scars on her shoulder blades, said to give the impression that an angel's wings had been removed. Her first exposure to music came from her father's interest in jazz and classical music; her mother had majored in dance in college and practiced ballet. Her parents owned a large collection of music, a piano, and a guitar, and her father was a devoted reader of music magazines. Shiina started piano lessons at four and studied classical ballet the following year. While very outgoing as a...