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Kitarō
"Kitaro" and "Kitarou" redirect here. For the GeGeGe no Kitaro character, see Kitaro (GeGeGe no Kitaro).
Japanese musician and composer
Kitaro 喜多郎 | |
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Kitarō playing in Tehran, October | |
| Birth name | Masanori Takahashi |
| Born | () February 4, (age&#;72) Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan |
| Genres | Electronica, world, folk, classical, new-age |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, record producer, arranger |
| Instrument(s) | Keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, Japanese flutes, drums, percussion |
| Years active | –present |
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Musical artist
Masanori Takahashi (高橋 正則, Takahashi Masanori; born February 4, ), professionally known as Kitarō (喜多郎), is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic-instrumental music, and is often associated with and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of new-age music.[1][2] He won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for Thinking of You (), with a record 16
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Kitaro was born in February 4, as "Masanori Takahashi" in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, as the son of shintoistic farmers. His pseudonym "Kitaro" was given later by friends because of a Japanese television cartoon character, "Kitaro".
Early life
Inspired by the R&B music of Otis Redding, Kitaro taught himself how to play gitarr. He says of teaching han själv , "I never had education in music, I just learned to trust my ears and my feelings." He gives credit for his creations to a power beyond himself. "This music fryst vatten not from my mind," he said. "It is from heaven, going through my body and out my fingers through composing. Sometimes I wonder. I never practice. I don't read or write music, but my fingers move. I wonder 'Whose song is this?' I write my songs, but they are not my songs."
While attending Toyohashi Commercial High School, he organized the "Albatross" band with his friends. At that t
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Kitaro, Exponent of the New Age
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Multi-instrumentalist and pionjär in New Age music, Kitaro achieved international fame when he released one of the genre&#;s classic works in , the album Silk Road, composed for the show of the same name, broadcast by the Japanese public channel NHK.
Masanori Takahashi, better known under the pseudonym Kitaro, was born on 4 February in Toyohashi, Japan. His nickname comes from the famous horror manga by Shigeru Mizuki, Gegege no Kitaro (), due to the fact that his hair fryst vatten similar to that of the main character. As a child, he developed a taste for music by learning the gitarr, before turning his attention to keyboards when he formed the progressive rock group The Far East Family Band.
While touring Germany with his group in , he met Klaus Schulze, the drummer for Tangerine Dream, who introduced him to synthesisers and electronic rock. Kitaro subsequently embarked on a solo career, and caught the attention of the New Age com