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Naon No Yaon
is an annual all-female music festival held at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall in Tokyo, Japan's Hibiya Park. Created and "produced" by Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Show-Ya, performing artists and staff members are restricted to females, but attendance is open to everyone. History Naon no Yaon is produced by all-female band Show-Ya and each member recommends acts and helps decide the performers, but lead singer Keiko Terada is the main force behind the festival. She was inspired by The Alfee's performance to 100,000 people on the Tokyo waterfront in 1986. After Terada explained her thoughts on a radio program, Show-Ya's record company and agency got onboard with the idea. With the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Japan), Equal Employment Opportunity Law enacted just that same year, the music industry was still male-dominated and all-female bands were rare. Whenever Show-Ya appeared on a music television show, they would ask fellow female talents who were there at the same ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall
The is an outdoor music venue in Hibiya Park, located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Owned and managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, music events are limited to weekends and holidays between April and October out of consideration for the surrounding urban area. The venue is scheduled to close for extensive rebuilding on October 1, 2025. There are actually two concert halls - the smaller was erected during the Meiji era, and the larger was first built in the Taishō era. The larger venue is colloquially abbreviated to . As the site of the first full-scale rock music concert in Japan, it is also referred to as the . History and facilities Hibiya Park, where the concert hall resides, was built in 1903 as Japan's first Western-style park. It was designed to incorporate three elements: Western flowers, Western food, and Western music. The last was achieved with the creation of the smaller music hall in 1905. It could accommodate about 1,000 people, but due to many Tokyo residents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Wrestler
Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to real-life wrestling combat. is a form of athletic theaterEero Laine (2017). "Stadium-sized theatre: WWE and the world of professional wrestling". In Chow et al. (2017). ''Performance and Professional Wrestling'', p. 39: "The business of professional wrestling is the business of theatre. Even if on the surface professional wrestling seems anathema to theatrical sensibilities, it is hard to deny the formal similarities. After all, professional wrestling is scripted entertainment performed live in front of an audience by actors portraying characters." centered around mock combat with the premise that its performers are competitive wrestlers. In the United States, the term "professional wrestling" does not refer to authentic wrestling, which was never popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Records
Tower Records is an international retail franchising, franchise and online music store that was formerly based in Sacramento, California, United States. From 1960 until 2006, Tower operated retail stores in the United States, which closed when Tower Records filed for bankruptcy and liquidation. Tower Records was purchased by a separate entity and was not affected by the retail store closings. On November 13, 2020, Tower Records announced that it had returned as an online retailer with plans to open future physical locations. History Inception, expansion, and description In 1960, Russell Solomon opened the first Tower Records store on Broadway, in Sacramento, California. He named it after his father's drugstore, which shared a building and name with the Tower Theatre (Sacramento, California), Tower Theatre, where Solomon first started selling records. The first stand-alone Tower Records store was located at 2514 Watt Ave in the Arden Arcade area of Sacramento. By 1976, Solomon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Maki & Oz
, born Maki Annette Lovelace, is a Japanese singer and lyricist, whose career spans more than five decades. After debuting as a folk singer in 1969 with the million-selling single "Toki ni wa Haha no Nai Ko no Yō ni", she quickly shifted to rock music and is best known for fronting the band Oz from 1972 to 1977. Maki was one of the first female rock vocalists in Japan, and her work with Oz and Blues Creation has been credited with pioneering Japanese rock in general. Early life Maki Annette Lovelace was born in Kamakura, Japan to a Japanese mother and an American father. Her father left Japan shortly after Maki's birth, and she has no recollection of him. Her paternal grandfather was Irish, and her paternal grandmother was Polish-Jewish. Maki grew up in Ōta, Tokyo, where her maternal grandparents lived. In 1968, she dropped out of St. Hilda's School during her second year. Spending her time in jazz cafés and discotheques in Shinjuku and Shibuya, she eventually went to see '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TRF (group)
TRF (an abbreviation of TK Rave Factory) is a Japanese pop band. Its members are DJ Koo, Sam, Etsu, Yu-ki and Chiharu. History The band debuted as "trf" in 1993. From 1994 to 1995, the band released five singles produced by Tetsuya Komuro, each selling over a million copies under the Avex record label. In 1995, their song "Overnight Sensation: Jidai wa Anata ni Yudaneteru" received a Japan Record Award. The following year, the band changed their name to an all-capital "TRF" with their single "Hey! Ladies & Gentlemen". Yu-ki did voice acting for the children's animation movie '' Elmer's Adventure: My Father's Dragon'', for which she sang the opening theme song as well. She also performed the opening song to the 2006 Tokusatsu series ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'' as well as several variants of it. Chiharu worked on the choreography for J-pop singer Shizuka Kudō, and appeared in a drama as herself. Sam was married to popstar and protégé of Tetsuya Komuro, Namie Amuro, in 1997, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personz
is a Japanese rock band formed in 1983 by lead vocalist Jill, guitarist Tsukasa Tanaka, bassist Mitsugu Watanabe, and drummer Tsutomu Fujita. In 1992, Tanaka left the band and was replaced by Takeshi Honda. Members Current members * (vocals, lyrics) * (bass) * (drum) * (guitar) Former members * (guitar) Discography Singles * RomanEsque-HeartAche 2.24.1988* Be Happy 7.21.1988* Can't stop the Love 9.21.1988* Dear Friends 2.21.1989* 7 Colors: Over the Rainbow 5.25.1989* Fallin' Angel～嘆きの天使～ 2.06.1989* True Love 0.23.1991* Future Star 5.12.1993* I Need You 1.17.1993* sayonaraは言わない 3.02.1994* 悲しみの天使 6.01.1994* Venusの憂鬱 1.16.1994* Stay as a friend ～友達のままで～ 3.01.1995* Tell Me Why 0.25.1995* Blue Heaven 5.09.1996* Open Sesame! 9.11.1996* Yume no Hate made mo 1.13.1996* River 2.25.1998* Dear Friends: 21st Version 2.09.2001* Singin' 9.26.2002* Heartsong 携帯サイトにての限定販売 5.19.2006* B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanase Aikawa
is a Japanese singer. She publishes her music under the Motorod label, a division of Avex Group. Biography Early life She was born in Higashiyodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan on February 16, 1975. Throughout her school years, Nanase had sung and participated in several singing competitions. When Aikawa auditioned for Sony Music Entertainment at the age of 15, she failed, but met a well-known music producer Tetsuro Oda. At the age of 17, she dropped out of school, and she contacted Oda to be trained by him. At the age of 20 she released her first single, ''Yume Miru Shoujo ja Irarenai'' on November 8, 1995. Career After she released her first single on November 8, 1995, she released three more singles, and then her first full album ''Red'' in 1996, which sold more than two million copies in its first month. That album won her an invitation to perform on Kōhaku Uta Gassen, a New Year's Eve singing contest between male and female teams of popular singers sponsored by NHK (one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zone (band)
was an all-female rock band started in Sapporo, Japan, in 1997. It started as a dance group and turned into an all-female band. Zone has been categorized in a new genre called "bandol" (a portmanteau of the words "band" and " idol"). The band was started and managed by Studio RunTime and its first single, "Good Days", was released by the major record label Sony Records, on February 7, 2001. The group officially disbanded on March 2, 2013. Zone's most famous song is " Secret Base (Kimi ga Kureta Mono)", released on August 8, 2001. It sold about 744,000 copies in Japan. History Zone started with eight members in 1997, then reduced to six and finally to four – Miyu Nagase, Mizuho Saito, Maiko Sakae and Takayo Ookoshi – by the time it released its first indie disc in 1999. Tadayuki Ominami, a representative of Sony Records, noticed that the crowd reaction at the group's first concert was particularly enthusiastic. Initially, Zone was solely focused on singing and da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minako Honda
, better known as , was a Japanese idol and musical singer. In 1985, she made her debut with the single "Satsui no Vacance". She was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia on January 5, 2005. At 4:38 A.M. on November 6, 2005, Honda died at the Juntendo University Hospital in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Early life Kudo was born in Japan on July 31, 1967, at Narimasu Maternity Hospital in Narimasu, Itabashi. Kudo's family initially lived in Shibamata, Katsushika. They moved to Asaka, Saitama, where Kudo enrolled at Shirayuri Kindergarten. Beginnings As a child Kudo was very involved with singing, largely influenced by her mother who dreamed of becoming a singer. In Kudo's graduation collection from Asaka's 6th Elementary School in Aska City, she wrote that, "It would be nice if I could become an actress or singer." While at Asaka Daiichi Junior High School at the age of 14, she would audition for Star Tanjō!, where in the TV qualifying round she would sing "Hello Goodbye" by Yoshie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nokko
Nokko (born November 4, 1963) is a Japanese singer. She was the lead singer of the popular band "Rebecca," which had a string of hits in Japan in the 1980s. Nokko was born in Urawa, Saitama, as . Under her stage name Nokko, she also had multiple hits in Japan throughout her solo career in the 1990s, and released an English-language album in the US produced and mixed by Goh Hotoda and Francois Kevorkian. History In 1990, she married Takehiko Kogure, former group leader of Rebecca. They divorced in 1993. In 2002, she married Goh Hotoda, a sound engineer who has mixed hit singles for artists including Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Hikaru Utada. They now live in Atami, Japan, where on August 1, 2006, the couple welcomed the birth of their daughter, Kano. Legacy Nokko's song "Ningyo" (mermaid), which was her 4th solo single on her 4th solo album, "Colored", was the theme song for the 1994 drama '' Toki o Kakeru Shōjo'' starring Yuki Uchida (born November 16, 1975) is a Japanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Lewis (musician)
is a Japanese musician who was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Biography Lewis was born to a half-Japanese mother and an American father. She also has one brother. Her many hits include the popular song "Roppongi Shinju", " Good Bye My Love" and many others which have been covered by other Asian artists. She semi-retired from show business in the 1990s after suffering from chronic panic attacks, and settled in Los Angeles. She released a few self covers albums in the 2000s. Lewis has been active as a creative director, consultant and designer. Her works include interior designs for private homes, business offices, restaurants and shops, releasing a line of original jewelry, creating original animation, logos and other projects. She has also been involved as the president, COO and marketing consultant for several software companies in the USA. Personal life Lewis was married to Japanese singer Masahiro Kuwana from 1980 to 1984. They had a son together, Myuji, who was born in 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Princess (band)
was a five-piece Japanese Pop music, pop/Rock music, rock All-female band, girl band active from 1983 to 1996. They previously released music under the names and . Career After being assembled via open audition of 1400 hopefuls as the female music group Akasaka Komachi by TDK, TDK Records in 1983, the band was housed with their manager in the Tokyo suburb of Arakawa, Tokyo, Nishi-Nippori for over two years to develop their musical skills and experience. In March 1984, the band made the first of several appearances on Japanese television. In 1985 the band transferred from TDK Records to another management company, changed their name to Julian Mama, but did not release any singles or albums. In May 1986, the band made their recording debut with the Extended play, EP ''Kiss de Crime'', released by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, CBS Sony. In August 1986, the band transferred their management to Shinko Music Entertainment. In May of that year the CEO of Shinko had declined to rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
