Haruomi Hosono , sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in Japanese pop music history, credited with shaping the sound of Japanese pop for decades as well as pop music outside of Japan. He also inspired genres such as city pop and Shibuya-kei, and as leader of Yellow Magic Orchestra, contributed to the development and pioneering of numerous electronic genres.
Hosono at the Tokyo International Film Festival, 2019
Hosono performing with YMO in 2008.
J-pop, natively also known simply as pops , 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 in the Japanese music scene.
Ichiro Fujiyama, influential ryūkōka singer
Nippon Budokan, legendary place for Japanese musicians
Shibuya-kei artist Keigo Oyamada (left) with YMO member Ryuichi Sakamoto
Concert of pioneer of visual kei, X Japan at Hong Kong in 2009 after their 2007 reunion