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Ballads II
is the eighth compilation album by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama is a Japanese singer and actress. She is affiliated with Big Apple Co., Ltd. Nakayama is nicknamed , and sometimes uses the pseudonyms or when she writes the lyrics. Biography History Nakayama was born in Saku, Nagano, Japan. Following her .... Released through King Records on December 18, 1996, the album features 15 ballads selected by Nakayama from her past releases. To coincide with the release of this album, the 1989 compilation '' Ballads'' was reissued on the same day with a new matching cover art. The album peaked at No. 25 on Oricon's albums chart and sold over 41,000 copies. Track listing Charts References External links * * * {{Authority control 1996 compilation albums Miho Nakayama compilation albums Japanese-language compilation albums King Records (Japan) compilation albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miho Nakayama
is a Japanese singer and actress. She is affiliated with Big Apple Co., Ltd. Nakayama is nicknamed , and sometimes uses the pseudonyms or when she writes the lyrics. Biography History Nakayama was born in Saku, Nagano, Japan. Following her mother's remarriage, her family moved to Koganei, Tokyo. There, Nakayama attended Koganei Municipal Junior High School. Idol career After being discovered by a talent scout while shopping in Harajuku, she made her debut on 21 June 1985 with her single " C", as well as a starring role in the film ''Be-Bop High School''. Throughout her career as a singer and actress, Nakayama recorded 22 studio albums and scored eight No. 1 singles on Oricon's charts; two of them selling over a million copies each. She also starred in a Famicom Disk System dating sim made by Nintendo titled '' Nakayama Miho no Tokimeki High School'', in which she played a high school student trying to mask her true identity. Acting career In 1995, director Shunji Iwai ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuo Ariga
Nobuo Ariga (; 14 October 1964 – 27 February 2023), also known as Hiroo Ariga () in his early years of career, was a Japanese singer-songwriter, bassist, arranger and record producer. Life and career Born in Tokyo, while studying at the Nihon University College of Art, Ariga co-founded the band , in which he performed as a bassist. After the band disbanded, he was part of the Shinji Harada's supporting band Crisis. In 1987, he made his debut as singer-songwriter, with the single "Ameiro no Boku to Kimi". He also worked as a producer and arranger, collaborating among others with Hiroko Yakushimaru, Fumiya Fujii, and Misato Watanabe. In 2020, after collaborating with the band as a producer since 2007, he joined the group as a bassist. Diagnosed with end-stage prostate cancer Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancerous tumor worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men. The prostate i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miho Nakayama Compilation Albums
is a feminine Japanese given name and a masculine Croatian name. It can have many different meanings in Japanese depending on the kanji used. Possible Japanese writings Miho can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *実穂, "truth, ear of grain" *美穂, "beauty, ear of grain" *美保, "beauty, care" *未歩, "future (part of the word 未来), step" *美帆, "beauty, sail" *美歩, "beauty, walk" The name can also be written in hiragana "みほ" or katakana “ミホ”. People with the name * , Japanese sprint canoeist * , Japanese voice actress * Miho Bošković (born 1983), Croatian water polo player * Miho Dukov (, born 1955), former Bulgarian wrestler * , Japanese actress * , Japanese singer * , Japanese football player * , Japanese table tennis player * , Japanese singer and songwriter * , Japanese composer and jazz musician * Miho Iwata (born 1962), Japanese performance artist, scenographer and choreographer * , former Japanese football player * , J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Compilation Albums
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Centennial Olympic Park bombing rect 200 0 400 200 TWA FLight 800 rect 400 0 600 200 1996 Mount Everest disaster rect 0 200 300 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thinking About You (Anata No Yoru Wo Tsutsumitai)
is the 33rd single by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Written by Masato Odake and Maria, the single was released on February 16, 1996, by King Records. Background and release "Thinking About You (Anata no Yoru wo Tsutsumitai)" was used as the ending theme of NTV's at the request of free announcer Yoshiko Sakurai. "Thinking About You (Anata no Yoru wo Tsutsumitai)" peaked at No. 13 on Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in N ...'s weekly singles chart and sold over 107,000 copies. Track listing Charts References External links * * * {{Authority control 1995 songs 1996 singles Songs in Japanese Miho Nakayama songs King Records (Japan) singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hajime Mizoguchi
is a Japanese cellist and composer. Mizoguchi started playing piano at the age of 3, and the cello at the age of 11. From 1978–1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello. In 1986, he released his first album, ''Half Inch Dessert'', being listed as composer, arranger, and performer. From that time on, he has released more than 20 albums including motion picture soundtracks. His compositions include the soundtrack to the animated feature film '' Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade''. In 2006, he composed the music to ''Tokimeki Memorial Only Love'' (along with Teruyuki Nobuchika) and the Fuji TV noitamina series ''Jyu Oh Sei''. He composed and plays the opening and ending theme for TV Asahi's series ''See the World by Train is a Japanese short factual television programme broadcast daily by TV Asahi since June 1987. Produced by Telecom Staff and sponsored by Fujitsu, it follows railway journeys in various countries arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Hoffman
Marc Hoffman (born April 16, 1961) is a composer of concert music and music for film, pianist, vocalist, recording artist and music educator. Hoffman grew up in Salisbury, North Carolina, then attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and received a degree in composition. He continued his education at The Dartington International Summer School of Music in Devon, England then studied film composition at the University of Southern California. He studied with David Ott, Sherwood Shaffer, Leo Arnaud and Neil Hefti. His film credits include researching period instruments and arrangements as music historian for the 1985 film ''Revolution'', and scoring the 2006 film ''The Mill'' for Ralph Singleton, producer, and Grainger Hines, director. As music director for ''The Mill'', he also placed the work of 13 other artists in the film. Hoffman wrote concert music, music for theater, pop, Christian music and film composition until the early 1990s when he decided to focus his attenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiawase Ni Naru Tame Ni
is the 26th single by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Written by Nakayama, Yūho Iwasato, and Toshifumi Hinata, the single was released on April 21, 1993, by King Records. Background and release "Shiawase ni Naru Tame ni" was used as the theme song of the NHK TV serial , marking the first time Nakayama recorded a theme song for a TV program she did not star in. "Shiawase ni Naru Tame ni" peaked at No. 4 on Oricon's weekly singles chart. It sold over 414,000 copies and was certified Platinum by the RIAJ. Nakayama performed the song on the 44th ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen , more commonly known simply as ''Kōhaku'', is an annual New Year's Eve television special produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK ne ...'' in 1993. Track listing Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certification References External links * * * {{Authority control 1992 songs 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced '' kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on ''Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballads (Miho Nakayama Album)
is the second compilation album by Japanese entertainer Miho Nakayama. Released through King Records on March 20, 1989, the album features 12 ballads selected by Nakayama from her past releases, plus new recordings of "Sentimental Tsūshin", "Kabin", and "Try or Cry". The album was reissued on December 18, 1996, as ''Ballads I'' with a different cover to match that of ''Ballads II''. The album peaked at No. 2 on Oricon's albums chart and sold over 195,000 copies. It was also certified Gold by the RIAJ The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include p .... Track listing Charts Certification References External links * * * {{Authority control 1989 compilation albums Miho Nakayama compilation albums Japanese-language compilation albums King Records (Japan) co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation Album
A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If from several performers, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology. Content and scope Songs included on a compilation album may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers. If by one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
