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2024 In Asian Music
Events *2 January – 33rd Seoul Music Awards take place at Bangkok, hosted by Lee Seung-gi, Tiffany Young, BamBam and Youngjae. Winners include NCT Dream, NewJeans, SEVENTEEN and Kim Ho-joong. *6 January ** The 38th Golden Disc Awards take place at Jakarta, Indonesia **Japanese girl groups Tonai Bousho and Mameshiba no Taigun merge to form Mameshiba no Taigun Tonai Bousho a.k.a. MonsterIdol. *10 January – The 13th Circle Chart Music Awards take place in Busan, South Korea. * 24 January – Korean composer Unsuk Chin is announced as the recipient of the 2024 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. *31 January – The Manila Symphony Orchestra gives its 98th Anniversary Concert. *''unknown date'' – Japanese actress Hina Tachibana begins a solo singing career by releasing her version of "I'm Game!" (the closing theme ''Gods' Games We Play'') as a single. Albums *The Hu – ''Live at Glastonbury'' *A. R. Rahman – ''Ayalaan'', soundtrack to the film of the same name (January 10) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2 January
Events Pre-1600 * 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. * 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire. * 533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy. * 1492 – Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders. 1601–1900 *1680 – Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram and his bodyguards execute the rebel leader Trunajaya. *1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey. *1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. * 1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. *1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busan
Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, with its port being Korea's busiest and the sixth-busiest in the world. The surrounding "Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region" (including Ulsan, South Gyeongsang, Daegu, and some of North Gyeongsang and South Jeolla) is South Korea's largest industrial area. The large volumes of port traffic and urban population in excess of 1 million make Busan a Large-Port metropolis using the Southampton System of Port-City classification . Busan is divided into 15 major administrative districts and a single county, together housing a population of approximately 3.6 million. The full metropolitan area, the Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region, has a population of approximately 8 million. The most densely built-up areas of the city are situat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hikaru Utada
, who is also known by the mononym Utada, is a Japanese-American pop singer, songwriter and producer. By 2010, Utada had become one of the most influential, and best-selling, musical artists in Japan. Born in the United States to Japanese parents, record producer Teruzane Utada and singer Keiko Fuji, Utada began to write music and lyrics at an early age and often traveled to Tokyo as a result of her father's job. Eventually, a recording contract with Toshiba-EMI was signed. Under the stage name Cubic U, she released an English-language debut album '' Precious'' in early 1998, but it was a commercial failure. In the following year, heavily influenced by R&B and dance-pop, a Japanese-language debut '' First Love'' was released and became an immediate success. Backed by the success of singles "Automatic", " Time Will Tell", and " Movin' On Without You", the album sold two million copies in its first week in Japan, topped the Oricon charts for six non-consecutive weeks and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryujin (band)
Ryujin (formerly known as GYZE, stylized as RYUJIN) is a metal band originated in Hokkaido, Japan. Coming from the very north of Japan the members of the band label themselves as "Northern Nostalgic Metal band". The metal trio consists of Ryoji Shinomoto (guitar/vocals/composer), Shuji Shinomoto (drums) and Aruta Watanabe (bass/vocals). In early 2019 the band announced a new guitarist, SHINKAI, to be joining the band, while the drummer Shuji temporarily stopped his activities in the band, being substituted by a session drummer Han-nya. Under the name GYZE, they released four full-length albums and three limited edition EPs. A fifth studio album under their new name RYUJIN was announced on 13 September 2023. History In May 2009 in Sapporo, Japan, two brothers—Ryoji and Shuji Shinomoto—formed the first incarnation of GYZE. Initially called Suicide Heaven, after Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami disaster of 2011 the band was renamed to GYZE. Aruta was invited as a session ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayalaan
''Ayalaan'' () is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language science fiction film written and directed by R. Ravikumar, and produced by Kotapadi J. Rajesh under KJR Studios. It stars Sivakarthikeyan, Rakul Preet Singh, Sharad Kelkar and Isha Koppikar. The film was announced in October 2016 and principal photography took place from June 2018 to January 2021, with few reshoots in November 2022. It was predominantly shot in Chennai. The music is composed by A. R. Rahman and cinematography handled by Nirav Shah while editing is done by Ruben. The film has over 4500 visual effects shots, the most for an Indian film. ''Ayalaan'' is scheduled to be released in January 2024, during Pongal. Cast *Sivakarthikeyan *Rakul Preet Singh *Sharad Kelkar *Isha Koppikar as Eliza *Bhanupriya *Yogi Babu *Karunakaran *Bala Saravanan Production Development On 16 October 2016, Sivakarthikeyan and his former manager-turned-producer R. D. Raja of 24AM Studios, announced their next project, which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayalaan (soundtrack)
''Ayalaan'' is the soundtrack to the 2024 Tamil-language science fiction film of the same name directed by R. Ravikumar, starring Sivakarthikeyan, Rakul Preet Singh, Sharad Kelkar, and Isha Koppikar, and produced by KJR Studios and PhantomFX Studios. The film's soundtrack featured five songs composed by A. R. Rahman and lyrics written by Vivek, Madhan Karky, Krithika Nelson, thoughtsfornow, Sivakarthikeyan and Rahman themselves. The soundtrack was released on 10 January 2024 through Sony Music India. Development ''Ayalaan'' is Rahman's maiden collaboration with Sivakarthikeyan and Ravikumar; the former described it as a "dream come true" moment on working with the composer. Rahman agreed to score the film in late 2017, before his inclusion in January 2018. The music sittings for the film began on March. As per Sivakarthikeyan's request, Rahman had sung the introductory song (later named as "Vera Level Sago") for the film. By November 2019, Rahman had composed three songs for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hu
The Hu (stylized as The HU) is a Mongolian folk metal band formed in 2016. With traditional Mongolian instrumentation, including the Morin khuur, the Tovshuur, and Mongolian throat singing, the band calls their style of music "hunnu rock", ''hu'' inspired by the Hunnu, an ancient Mongol/Turkic empire, known as Hünnü in Mongolia. Some of the band's lyrics include old Mongolian war cries and poetry. History Two videos on YouTube released in late 2018, "Yuve Yuve Yu" (28 September) and "Wolf Totem" (16 November), had together garnered over 161 million views by March 2022. On 11 April 2019, " Wolf Totem" reached No. 1 on ''Billboard''s Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, making The Hu the first Mongolian musical act to top a ''Billboard'' chart. In addition, "Yuve Yuve Yu" reached No. 7 on the same chart while "Wolf Totem" debuted at No. 22 on ''Billboard''s Hot Rock Songs chart. On 17 May 2019, The Hu met Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga, who congratulated the band for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie (website)
is a Japanese entertainment news website that debuted on February 1, 2007. It is operated by Natasha, Inc. The website is named after the song of the same name by Julio Iglesias. ''Natalie'' has been providing news for such leading Japanese portals and social networks as Mobage Town, GREE, Livedoor, Excite, Mixi, and Yahoo! Japan. It has also been successful on Twitter, with 1,510,000 followers as of February 2017, being the third-most-followed Japanese media company, after '' The Mainichi Shimbun'' and '' The Asahi Shimbun''. History Natasha, Inc., a content provider, was founded in December 2005, becoming a limited company in February 2006 and being demutualized in January 2007. On February 1, 2007, Natasha, Inc. opened its own news website ''Natalie'', named after the song "Nathalie" by Julio Iglesias. It was dedicated exclusively to music news and created with the idea of updating on a daily basis, something that newspapers could not do. The website also offered o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gods' Games We Play
is a Japanese light novel series written by Kei Sazane and illustrated by Toiro Tomose. It began serialization online in September 2020 on Kadokawa's user-generated novel publishing website Kakuyomu. It was later published by Media Factory with four volumes since January 2021 under their MF Bunko J imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Kapiko Toriumi has been serialized in Media Factory's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Monthly Comic Alive'' since August 2021. It has been collected in a single '' tankōbon'' volume. An anime television series adaptation by Liden Films has been announced. Media Light novel The series written by Kei Sazane began serialization online in September 2020 on Kadokawa's user-generated novel publishing website Kakuyomu. It was later published as a light novel with illustrations by Toiro Tomose by Media Factory under their MF Bunko J imprint from January 25, 2021. As of August 2022, five volumes have been released. At Sakura-Con 2022, Yen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hina Tachibana
is a Japanese voice actress who is affiliated with Arts Vision. She is known for her roles as Nagi Hisakawa in ''The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls'', Maina Ichii in '' If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die'', and Rie Maruyama in '' Cue!''. Career Tachibana began her voice acting career after graduating from the Japan Narration Actor Institute. Her first role was as a background character in the anime series ''Zombie Land Saga'' in 2018. Her first named role was as the character Nagi Hisakawa in the mobile game '' The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage''. Her first major anime followed in 2019 when she voiced Maina Ichii in '' If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die''. Later that year she was cast as Rie Maruyama in the mobile game '' Cue!''. In 2021, Tachibana played Satono Diamond in the mobile game and anime series ''Uma Musume Pretty Derby''. In 2022 she reprised the role of Rie Maruyama for the anime series adaptation of ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manila Symphony Orchestra
The Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is one of the oldest orchestras in Asia. Founded by Alexander Lippay in 1926, the orchestra has played a major role in Philippine history, including acting as a symbol of resistance during the Second World War. Through the years, MSO has hosted artists Montserrat Caballé, Yehudi Menuhin, Igor Oistrakh, Eugene Istomin, Fou Ts'ong, Barry Tuckwell, Paul Badura-Skoda and Rony Rogoff, as well as conductors Andre Kostelanetz, Arthur Fiedler, Mendi Rodan, Robert Feist, Gareth Nair, Helen Quach, and Eduard Strauss II. Today, the Manila Symphony Orchestra provides a showcase for young Filipino musical talent. Origins The Manila Symphony Orchestra was founded by Alexander Lippay, and held its first concert on 22 January 1926 at the Manila Grand Opera House. They also played at the inauguration concert of the Metropolitan Theater on 10 December 1931. During this time the orchestra was plagued with financial difficulties. The introduction of the ''Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
31 January
Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the throne as King Eric X of Sweden. *1504 – The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French domination of northern Italy, while Spain receives the Kingdom of Naples. *1578 – Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons. 1601–1900 *1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James. *1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. *1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
