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White Key
"White Key" is the fourth single released by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki under music label Sony Music in December 1998. Information The main song of the single was also at the TV commercial of the Japanese product "Kissmark", in the same way that "''all night long''" was used before. The full single was produced by Tetsuya Komuro is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and introduced contemporary electronic dance music to the Japanese mainstream. He was also a former owner of the .... This it's also her second single that includes a b-side; the first was her debut single "''love the island''". Following her blacklisting from the music industry in September 2000, production and distribution of the single stopped in its entirety. Track listing #White Key #:Composed by Cozy Kubo & TK #:Written by Marc & TK #:Produced by Tetsuya Komuro #White Key (Doze of Mix) #:Remixed by TK # #:Compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Suzuki
is a Japanese recording artist, DJ, and actress from Zama, Kanagawa, Japan. Having been discovered at the talent TV show '' Asayan'', she was one of the most popular female teen idols in the late 1990s. However, in 2000, Suzuki faced legal problems with her management company resulting in a controversial blacklisting from the entertainment industry. Suzuki attempted to resurrect her career under her own steam with two indie singles before signing to Avex Trax in 2005. She released " Delightful", a dance song that reached No. 3 on the Japanese Oricon charts with a style similar to electronic club music, significantly different from her pop idol days. Since her appearance in the 2006 film '' Rainbow Song'', Suzuki has gradually made a name for herself in the acting field, starring in various movies, television series, and musicals. Biography 1998: ''Asayan'' and debut While attending high school, Ami auditioned for Japanese talent show '' Asayan'', which was searching for a you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SA (album)
SA is Ami Suzuki's debut album released under label Sony Music Japan on 25 March 1999. Background information The album was released on March 25, 1999, through True Kiss Disc, former sub-label of Sony Music Japan dedicated exclusively to artists produced by Tetsuya Komuro. The album was then released on MiniDisc format on April 29, 1999. Its title comes from Suzuki's initials. The album also received the "Pop Album of the Year" award at the 14th Japan Gold Disc Awards. A digitally remastered version of the album was subsequently released on Blu-spec CD format on September 11, 2013, simultaneously with her second album '' Infinity Eighteen Vol. 1''. Chart performance The album topped the Oricon charts, sold over 2.5 million copies and achieved platinum status by the Recording Industry Association of Japan 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 Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...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] |
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of Sony. It was originally founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed as Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture known as Sony BMG, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the Sony Music name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuya Komuro
is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and introduced contemporary electronic dance music to the Japanese mainstream. He was also a former owner of the disco Velfarre located in Roppongi, Tokyo. In the Oricon singles chart of April 1996, he monopolized all the top 5 positions as the songwriter and producer, a world record. In 1995, he monopolized all top 3 positions of the copyright distribution rankings for the JASRAC Award, a record in Japan's music history. At his peak as a record producer the artists he predominantly produced for came to be known as TK Family and at one time included Namie Amuro, hitomi, TRF, Tomomi Kahara and Ami Suzuki amongst others. As of 2008, records produced by him had sold more than 170 million copies, primarily in Japan. Total sales of the singles he has written exceed 42 million copies, making him the fourth best-selling lyricist in Japan. Life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Night Long (Ami Suzuki Song)
"All Night Long" (stylized as "all night long") is a song recorded by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki for her debut studio album, '' SA'' (1999). It was written and produced by Japanese producer and songwriter Tetsuya Komuro. The track was released following Suzuki's two collaborative efforts with Komuro. "All Night Long" premiered on November 5, 1998, as the third single from the album. Musically, the track was described as a drum and bass and pop song. Upon its release, "All Night Long" garnered positive reviews from music critics and was praised for its composition and production. It also achieved success in Japan; it was Suzuki's highest-charting single on the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart, until it was surpassed by " Be Together" (1999). The song has sold over 396,000 units in Japan, Suzuki's seventh best selling single in that region. The accompanying music video for "All Night Long" was shot in Japan; it features Suzuki inside a club with friends, and running around an empty b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nothing Without You (song)
"Nothing Without You" is the fifth single released by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki in February 1999, the first Ami single released on that year. Information The main song of this single also appeared in a TV commercial for a videogame from Tecmo called "Monster Farm 2", and was one of the 50 best-selling singles of that year. This was Ami's first single with only three songs on it since her debut single, "Love the Island "Love the Island" is the debut single of Japanese singer Ami Suzuki released on July 1, 1998 through True Kiss Disc, sub-label of Sony Music Entertainment Japan owned by Tetsuya Komuro. Information "Love the Island" was used in TV commercials fo ...". It peaked at number three on the Oricon chart. Following her blacklisting from the music industry in September 2000, production and distribution of the single stopped in its entirety. Track listing #"Nothing Without You" #"Nothing Without You" (remix) #"Nothing Without You" (TV mix) Ami Suzuki songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Suzuki Songs
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1998 Singles
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghanistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
