Tetsuya Komuro
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, born November 27, 1958 in Fuchu, Tokyo Japan, is a Japanese keyboard player, songwriter and music producer. He is recognized for making dance music permeate in the Japanese public. He is also known as TK.
His career started as a keyboardist for Speedway in 1979. In 1984, he build up TM NETWORK with Takashi Utsunomiya and Naoto Kine. A year later, in 1985, his first solo work was the soundtrack "Vampire Hunter D" for the anime Vampire Hunter D, and his band, TM Network, did the closing credits song "Your Song". He subsequently composed other soundtracks such as Ten to chi to, Seven days War or City Hunter.
Moreover in 1989, Komuro had played with Warren Cuccurullo as a solo singer. In 1991, he collaborated with X Japan's Yoshiki as the V2.
TM Network changed its name to TMN in 1990. TMN disbanded in 1994, then in 1999 they reunited under their old name of TM Network, and remain active to this day. Also in 1994, he composed the musical score to the Japanese anime film Street Fighter II, based on the Capcom video game. This score was unfortunately removed from the US release of the film.
However by the early 1990s Komuro was spending much of his time writing and producing many other musicians and bands.
He was also an early pioneer of dance music in Japan, and came to stardom in the 1990s as producer with a long string of hits with artists such as TRF (TK Rave Factory), Tomomi Kahala, Namie Amuro, Ami Suzuki, hitomi, Ryoko Shinohara and H Jungle with t. He was mainly helped in this task by the mix engineers Pete Hammond and Dave Ford. Both were working for PWL, which was the home of the British producing team Stock Aitken Waterman.
He also released albums as a solo singer or musician and was involved in the bands globe, Kiss Destination and Gaball.
In 1997, he started his overseas career with the remix of the theme music of the action movie "". Komuro is perhaps best known in the west for his collaboration with French keyboardist Jean-Michel Jarre from 1998 to 2001. The duet wrote the theme song for the 1998 FIFA World Cup ("Together Now") as well as several other tracks and remixes. He and Jean-Michel also performed a concert on beaches in Okinawa on January 1st, 2001.
Collaborations
Tetsuya Komuro worked with the following artists as composer, writer, producer, arranger, engineer and/or keyboard player: 566, 566 feat. Sayuri Nakano, Naomi Amagata, Namie Amuro, An-J, Aniss, Asami, Yaya Auga, Backstreet Boys, Bakumatsujuku, Balance, Bananarama, B.C.J, Beatboys, Blaque Ivory with TK, Boy's Club, Bubble Aota (Noriko Aota), Civiles & Cole, Celina, Coco, Convertible, Cyber X feat. Keiko, dos, Female Non Fiction, Satomi Fukunaga, Gaball, Geisha Girls, globe, Hiromi Go, H Jungle with T, H.A.N.D., Tomoyo Harada, Shoichiro Hizume, Chiemi Hori, Mari Hoshino, Takahiro Ikeyama, Yuko Imai, Akira Ito, Kazue Itoh, Yoshimi Iwasaki, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jungle Massive, Tomomi Kahala, Yoshihiro Kai, Kalapana, Tetsuya Katsuragi, Keiko, Naoto Kine, Kiss Destination, Yukie Kobayashi, Miku Koda, Kyoko Koizumi, Cozy Kubo, Junko Kudo, Miku Leika, Riho Makise, Marc, Seiko Matsuda, Takahiro Matsumoto, Kayoko Matsunaga, Dannii Minogue, Rie Miyazawa, Miyuki, Alisa Mizuki, Move, Yuki Nae, Akina Nakamori, Miho Nakayama, Shinobu Nakayama, Yoko Oginome, Yuka Ohnishi, Yukiko Okada, Senri Oe, Kengo Otani, Push, Ring, R9, Mio Sakaguchi, Saruganseki, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Ayako Sekimoto, Serika with Dog, Manabu Shimizu, Ryoko Shinohara, Speedway, Miyuki Sugiura, Suirei, Suzuki, Ami Suzuki, Taeco, Nami Tamaki, Ryo Tamura, Minako Tanaka, Yuko Tsuburaya, Takashi Utsunomiya, TM Network (TMN), Tohko, Tokyo Performance Dole, TRF, Yuki Uchida, Yoshiki, Misato Watanabe, Y.S.P All Stars, Y.U.M, Saori Yagi, Yokappe, ZoieSee also
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