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East End X Yuri
East End × Yuri (pronounced “East End Plus Yuri”) is a Japanese hip hop music, hip hop group that was composed of East End and singer Yuri Ichii, ex-member of J-pop girl group Tokyo Performance Doll. They were the first Japanese hip-hop artists to have a Single (music), single sell over a million copies in Japan. A feat achieved twice with the singles "DA.YO.NE" and "MAICCA". Their commercial success spread the genre to a wider audience, and as a result, hip-hop became more accepted in Japanese society. Biography 1994 In February, East End, friends of Tokyo Performance Doll's Yuri Ichii, appeared as guests at Ichii's live performance at Theater Apple in the basement of Shinjuku Koma Theater in Shinjuku, Tokyo. File Records' president Yoshio Sato, who was watching the performance, gave the nod to form "East End × Yuri". In June, they released their debut mini album "Denim-ed Soul" and held a live concert to celebrate the release of the record at Space Lab Yellow in Nishi- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordy (singer)
Jordy Claude Daniel Lemoine (born 14 January 1988), known as Jordy, is a French singer and musician. He was known for his hit single " Dur dur d'être bébé!" when he was four years old. He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines. He is the son of music producer Claude Lemoine, who was involved with the Rockets from 1976 to 1992. Career Jordy is listed in the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as the youngest singer ever to have a No. 1 charted single. He achieved this in 1992, at the age of four-and-a-half, with the song " Dur dur d'être bébé!" ("It's Tough to Be a Baby"). "Dur dur d'être bébé!" was No. 1 for 15 weeks in France, and was a dance hit across Europe, Brazil, Latin America, South Korea, and Japan. It landed at No. 58 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, making him the youngest artist to ever chart there. As a teenager, Jordy appeared on Season 2 of the French television show ''La Ferme Célébrités ''La Ferme Célébrités'' is the French version of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 network and by some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters who buy the program. The show ends shortly before midnight. Before the show began broadcasting on television in late 1953, the show was held on 3 January and only consisted of a radio broadcast. The program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The "red" team or is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the "white" team or is all male (or groups with male vocals). At the end of the show, judges and the audience vote to decide which group performed better. The honor of performing on ''Kōhaku'' is strictly by invitation, so only the most successful singing acts in the Japanese entertainment industry can p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
