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6 unusual facts about J-pop


Garnet Crow discography

The discography of Garnet Crow,a Japanese J-pop band, consists of eight studio albums, one extended play, and thirty-one singles.

Hiro-x

Hiromitsu-Aoki, popularly known as HIRO-X, is a modern J-pop artist.

Mayu Nozomi

In 2012, she was involved in the music project Kiss, a J-pop group consisting of her, Aino Kishi, and Jessica Kizaki.

Music Channel Romania

Noteworthy, Music Channel is known for also airing Latin pop, adult contemporary, J-pop and K-pop among other genres that don't receive significant airplay from other music stations.

Risa Coda

Coda tried to launch a career as a J-pop singer with Sexual Kiss records in late 2006 with a CD single featuring the Eurobeat song "Paradiso" (パラディソ).

Superrock KYOI

KYOI retained a representative in Japan to advise the programmer of the latest in Japanese pop music trends.


A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

Ally Burnett

Ally Burnett is an American pop and rock singer/songwriter best known for song placements on MTV shows such as 'Jersey Shore' and her theme song for 'The Seven'.

Banda Uó

Banda Uó is an brazilian band of pop tecnobrega composed by Davi Sabbag, Mateus Carrilho, and Candy Mel started in 2010 on the city of Goiânia.

BZN

BZN started out as a pop-rock band in their native Volendam in 1966, playing early-Bee Gees-like harmony pop.

Cherry Boone

Boone came to public attention after the death of her friend, pop singer Karen Carpenter, who died in 1983, from complications arising from anorexia nervosa.

Cinderella's Eyes

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney of the Financial Times found that Roberts had pushed her "mainstream pop background to the limit".

Collège du Léman

Mustafa Sandal, popular Turkish pop music singer, record producer, businessman, and occasional actor.

Damien Sargue

Damien Sargue, born 26 June 1981, is a French pop singer known for his performance of Romeo in Gérard Presgurvic's Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour.

Drobe

At launch, the site featured a news feed, POP email checker and a search facility "incorporating AcornSearch.com".

East Bay Grease

"Sparkling in the Sand" became a #1 ballad in the San Francisco Bay Area with major airplay on defunct AM radio station, KDIA, then local pop stations, KYA and KFRC and then eventually a standard oldie on FM stations, KSOL and KBLX.

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

For All You've Done

Pop singer and former Australian Idol contestant Paulini Curuenavuli was also at the conference promoting her Number 2 hit single "Angel Eyes" from her forthcoming album One Determined Heart.

Frida Öhrn

She is the singer of Indie-pop band Oh Laura and one of the three singers in the band Cookies 'N' Beans, performing in the Swedish Melodifestivalen (Eurovision Song Contest qualifier) in 2009 with "What If" and in 2013 with "Burning Flags".

Garfield in Paradise

They meet the tribal chief who explains that the villagers learned English "from watching a lot of beach movies", and that the car was originally owned by the Cruiser, a James Dean/Fonzie-styled legend who drove his car into the village in 1957 and introduced the people to the 1950s pop culture.

Greetings from Imrie House

It contains singles "Just the Girl", "Catch Your Wave" and "Say Goodnight" and an iTunes single, "Pop Princess".

Greg Cipes

The song "Rescue" on the band's 2007 debut release Conscious Revolution features teenage pop star Jesse McCartney.

Honey to the B

Honey to the B is the debut album album by pop singer Billie Piper, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music).

Issa Bagayogo

Bagayogo blends his native Malian traditions with western pop music and has drawn comparisons to some of the great Malian musicians such as Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté.

Ivo Fabijan

Ivo Fabijan-Mrvelj (Vrbovac, Odžak, 1950 - Zagreb, 2006), was a controversial Croatian musician, singer and composer, and produced pop music and patriotic songs.

Jos mä oisin sun mies

"Jos mä oisin sun mies" is a song by a Finnish pop singer Jontte Valosaari.

Kaire Vilgats

As a backing vocalist, Vilgats often supports different pop acts of Estonia, such as Anne Veski, Ivo Linna or Maarja to name a few.

Katie Stevens

In her performance of "Chain of Fools", DioGuardi told her she had found where she belonged: R&B-pop, but she needed to work on being younger.

Kauppakorkeakoulun Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat

The choir's artistic range spans classical Finnish (e.g. by Jean Sibelius, Leevi Madetoja, Toivo Kuula, Selim Palmgren, and Armas Järnefelt) and international male choir music, modern compositions (e.g. by Einojuhani Rautavaara and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi), barbershop, as well as pop music arrangements.

Las Supremas de Móstoles

Las Supremas de Móstoles (or The Supremes of Móstoles, in English) is a Spanish pop band made up of three sisters, Susi, Vicky and Luisi (two of them are twins).

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Macross: Do You Remember Love?

During the latest assault, Valkyrie pilot Hikaru Ichijyo rescues pop idol Lynn Minmay, but are both trapped in a section of the fortress for days.

Miranda Chartrand and Adam Nichols

On November 4, Chartrand and Nichols performed "I've Got Nothing" at a gig at 93 Feet East in London, which was headlined by former pop star Chesney Hawkes.

Morris Palter

In 2001, Wide Awake Bored was their first official bubblegum pop punk album.

Music of Zimbabwe

Jit is a generic term for electric guitar-driven pop, and includes wildly popular groups like the New Black Eagles and the Four Brothers.

Paula Yates

She first came to prominence in the 1980s, as co-presenter (with Jools Holland) of the Channel 4 pop music programme The Tube.

Peter Rose

Peter DeRose (1900–1953), composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era

Poslednja Igra Leptira

Music and lyrics were witen by Neša Radulović, except for "Dečko, 'ajde o'ladi" ("Chill Out, Boy") for which music was written by Radulović and Sašo Bogojevski. Special guest on this album was Riblja Čorba frontman Bora Đorđević. The biggest hit from the album was "Dečko, 'ajde o'ladi", Radulović's duet with Lidija Asanović, which brought them Oskar popularnosti award for the Pop Band of the Year.

Russell Thompkins, Jr.

From 1971 to 1974, the Stylistics had twelve consecutive U.S. R&B top ten hits and five top ten U.S. pop hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New".

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

S Club Search

S Club Search is a CBBC reality television show that documents the audition process and formation for the pop group S Club Juniors in 2001.

Semplicemente

"Semplicemente" (en: Simply) is a pop song by Italian duo Zero Assoluto, released in 2005.

Serge Noskov

After the graduation, he returned to Syktyvkar, where he wrote the 1st String Quartet, “Psalms” for a choir a'capella on texts of a poem by Victor Savin in Komi language, and the Bible, musical “Ogorod”, numerous songs with lyrics by Komi poets of 19th century, also, a few songs for a pop-group “Aski”.

Snorri

Snorri Snorrason (born 1977), an Icelandic singer who rose to popularity after winning the Icelandic version of Pop Idol,

Steve Strange

In 2002, Strange took part in the Here and Now Tour, which featured a revival of various 80s pop acts.

Suzanne Tamim

After winning a Gold Medal on Studio El Fan, she was hailed not only for her beauty but also for a voice that was equally suited to pop tunes and classical Arabic melodies.

Teenage Jesus

Album came about when The Emotron played with Chicago Synth-Pop Act The Mystechs, Singer/Label Owner Emil Hyde asked The Emotron if they would like to record and put out a DIY release on his label Death By Karaoke Records.

Tessellation

"Tessellate" - song by the British alternative indie pop quartet Alt-J (∆).

Thai hip hop

In early 1990s Thai hip hop is origins by pop/dance artists include Jetrin Wattanasin in album Jor-Ae-Bor (จ เ-ะ บ), and Touch Na Takuathung in album Touch Thunder (ทัช ธันเดอร์), the album mixed dance-pop with rap, also artists such as Raptor a duo consisting of Louis Scott and Joni Anwar mixed dance-pop with rap, and some success in song "Superhero" (ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่) from album Raptor (แร็พเตอร์).

The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland

The film featured a music score by Patricia Cullen, along with songs by pop musicians John Sebastian and Natalie Cole.

The Wonderland Tour 2005

McFly covered a snippet of American Pop Punk band Green Day's hit American Idiot and played a full cover song by The Who who they had previously worked worked with.

This Is Pop Music

This Is Pop Music is the 3rd album by the Norwegian singer/song-writer Espen Lind and the second released under his name.

V-pop

In the 1990s, more and more young artists began to appear in the overseas Vietnamese music industry, Trish Thùy Trang, Nguyễn Hưng, Bằng Kiều, Nguyễn Thắng, Andy Quách, Dương Triệu Vũ, Don Hồ, ...

Where Were You Last Night

Where Were You Last Night is a 1989 album released by Swedish pop artist Ankie Bagger.

You're My Mate

"You're My Mate" is a song by English pop group Right Said Fred released as the second single from their album Fredhead.

Zeus B. Held

After writing and producing the groundbreaking album by Gina X Performance “Nice Mover”, (followed by three more Gina X albums), his first UK production credits were with Fashion and Dead or Alive, he produced Pete Wylie's "Sinful" album and an LP by Men Without Hats for Polygram US which yielded a number one in many European countries and a US Top 20 hit with "Pop Goes The World".


see also

Amairo no Kami no Otome

The song has been covered several times, including by the J-Pop group Mi-Ke, the singer Hitomi Shimatani, and a Mandarin version by Cyndi Wang.

Anri

It was one of the first J-pop songs used as an anime theme song, and it was included in a recent Dance Dance Revolution game.

Arakaki

Hitoe Arakaki (born 1981), the oldest member of the J-pop group SPEED in Japan

Hisako Arakaki (born 1977), Ryukyuan J-pop singer from Okinawa, Japan

Ayumi

Ayumi Ishida (Morning Musume member) (石田 亜佑美, born 1997), a Japanese singer who is a member of the J-pop girl group (Morning Musume)

BeForU discography

BeForU debuted in 2000 with their popular song "DIVE," which was notable as being the first J-POP song in the Dance Dance Revolution series.

Chihara

Minori Chihara (born 1980), Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer

Dave Rodgers

Considered by many to be the "Godfather of Eurobeat", he has written and produced songs for J-pop artists such as Namie Amuro, V6 and MAX, which proved to help introduce some of the Japanese music fans to the electronic music genre known as Eurobeat.

Enjoy Full

Enjoy Full (stylized as Enjoy☆Full) is the second mini-album of Japanese voice actor and J-Pop singer, Nobuhiko Okamoto.

Foolish Foolish

"Foolish foolish" is a J-Pop song written by Kenko-P, and recorded by Yuya Matsushita.

Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel

It includes three vocal songs: "Flowers of the Hearts" sung by voice actress Motoko Kumai, "Emotionally" sung by Saori Yamada, and a remix of the first TV ending theme song, "Kesenai Tsumi" (Inerasable Sin) sung by J-pop singer Nana Kitade entitled "Kesenai Tsumi~raw“breath”track~".

Go-Bang's

They broke up in 1994, and since then, Kaori Moriwaka (singer/songwriter) has become a solo singer/songwriter/producer/actress, while Mitsuko Saito (drums) and Misa Tanishima (bass guitar) have dropped beneath the radar, though apparently Saito has been seen drumming for a few other bands, fashion-modeling and played a drummer as an extra in one of J-pop singer Namie Amuro's Please Smile Again music videos.

Haruna

Haruna Iikubo (飯窪 春菜, born 1994), former model and current 10th generation member of J-pop group Morning Musume

Kusano

Hironori Kusano (born 1988), singer, idol, and former member of the J-pop group News

Majokko Megu-chan

(The theme song lyrics were penned by lyricist Kazuya Senke, known for writing hit songs with similarly suggestive lyrics in 1973-74 for then-teenage J-pop idol Momoe Yamaguchi.)

Miki 1

It featured all of her previous singles from her debut "Aenai Nagai Nichiyōbi" (released March 2002) to her single "Boogie Train '03" (released February 2003). The album also contained the single "Boyfriend", which was originally released in November 2002, her last single for that year. Five months after the release of MIKI 1, Miki made her debut in J-pop group Morning Musume to become a part of the 6th generation of members.

Nana Mizuki Live Diamond x Fever

Nana Mizuki Live Diamond x Fever is the 8th live DVD and 2nd Blu-ray Disc release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Nana Mizuki Live Fighter -Blue x Red Side-

Nana Mizuki Live Fighter -Blue x Red Side- is the 7th live DVD and 1st Blu-ray Disc release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Nana Mizuki Live Formula at Saitama Super Arena

Nana Mizuki Live Formula at Saitama Super Arena is the sixth live DVD release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Nana Mizuki Live Museum x Universe

Nana Mizuki Live Museum x Universe is the 5th live DVD release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Nana Mizuki Live Rainbow at Budokan

Nana Mizuki Live Rainbow at Budokan is the 3rd live DVD release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Nana Mizuki Live Skipper Countdown the DVD and More

Nana Mizuki Live Skipper Countdown the DVD and More is the 2nd live DVD release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Nana Mizuki Livedom -Birth- at Budokan

Nana Mizuki Livedom -Birth- at Budokan is the 4th live DVD release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Shinji Miyazaki

His work pulls from many inspirations, among them J-Pop and American pop influences, as well as jazz artist Gil Evans.

Smile×Smile

Smile×Smile (released on July 24, 2003) is J-pop artist Mayumi Iizuka's seventh album and was produced by Tore Johansson, who is a Swedish musician.

Sono Mirai wa Ima

Sawao Yamanaka, The Pillows lead song-writer, wrote "Beehive" for the J-Pop artist Chihiro Yonekura, which is featured on her album "azure".

Susunu! Denpa Shōnen

Bluem of Youth - A J-Pop duo that garnered its biggest success with their involvement with the show.

Wandering Sun

This series was itself a ground-breaker in that it was perhaps the first anime series to depict the entertainment industry - specifically popular music, which would be a major plot point in many anime to come from Creamy Mami to Perfect Blue.

Wonder Momo

Besides appearing in video games, J-pop singer Haruko Momoi released an album influenced by the video game fully titled as WONDER MOMO-i〜New recording〜 (a pun combining her last name with the name of this game).