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Jeff Miyahara (born February 4, 1977) is a Japanese-Korean record producer and songwriter based in
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. Beginning his career in the music industry in 1999, he has worked with many Japanese artists such as JUJU,
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, as well as international artists like
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, and
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. He has accrued many
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rated No. 1 Digital Download hits, including "Kimi No Subete Ni" by Spontania ft. JUJU and JASMINE's "sad to say". He was awarded several Gold Disc Awards by the
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in 2005, 2008, 2009, and was titled Nikkei Entertainment's "Hitmaker of the Year" in 2010. He has sold over 40 million units to date. In 2009, Miyahara signed a deal with UM360 (Universal Music 360, the management division of
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) after the success of his 2008 breakout hit "Kiminosubeteni", a hip-pop track he produced for Spontania featuring JUJU, which sold over 5 million digital downloads. In this year alone he was involved in the release of over 50 CDs. He currently has projects in the works with artists in the
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, while continuing his work in Japan. Miyahara has cited his multi-cultural and multi-lingual background (LA-raised, half Korean, half Japanese) as the foundation on which his approach to songwriting and production is conceived.


Biography

During his teenage years Miyahara began playing
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and was impressed both by heavy metal and the burgeoning
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culture of mainstream music in the 1980s. While Miyahara was still in school he developed his skills as a music producer. During this same period he traveled to Korea, where he became friends with other musicians of similar backgrounds and first began taking part in recording sessions as a producer. In 1999, he commenced his full scale music career. In 2002, Miyahara released his first song as a producer, "Tsubasa wo kudasai", which was used as the theme song for Japan's national team in the 2002
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and
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. Miyahara's breakthrough success came in August 2008 with the release of Spontania feat. JUJU's "Kiminosubeteni", which he produced. The song reached number 1 on the USEN chart, fourth in the yearly iTunes ranking :ja:君のすべてに and was downloaded over 5 million times. In 2009, another of Miyahara's productions, JUJU feat. JAY'ED "Ashitagakurunara" ranked No. 1 on the
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hit charts :ja:明日がくるなら


J-POP Music Group

Jeff's most recent initiative is the J-POP Music Group. J-POP Music Group is a team of top-tier (and Grammy Award-winning) writers, producers, engineers, and brand-builders.
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is an example among many of their projects. Jeff discovered Chris and with help from his J-POP Music Group, turned Chris into a polished, multi-award-winning, and purportedly 1.4 Million+ album-selling phenomenon.


Discography


Singles


Albums


DVDs


References


External links


Official website
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