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Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952) is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, and actor, based in Tokyo and New York. He began his career in 1978 as a member of the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), where he played the keyboards and occasionally sang the vocals. The band was an international success, with worldwide hits such as "Computer Game / Firecracker" (1978) and "Behind the Mask" (1978), the latter written and sung by Sakamoto. At around the same time, he began pursuing a solo career in pop music, debuting with an experimental electronic fusion album The Thousand Knives of Ryūichi Sakamoto (1978), and later released the pioneering electro music album B-2 Unit (1980), which included the electro classic "Riot in Lagos". After YMO disbanded in 1983, he produced more hit solo records, including collaborations with various international artists, through to the 1990s. He began...

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Discography

  • TOKYO JOE, 1985
  • Discord, 1998
  • Playing the Piano, 2009
  • Asian Games
  • Neo Geo, 1987
  • BTTB, 1999
  • Summer Nerves, 2005
  • Smoochy
  • Ocean Fire, 2007
  • 東京ジョー, 1985
  • Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1978
  • Sweet Revenge, 1994
  • Left Handed Dream, 1982
  • Cendre, 2007
  • Beauty, 1989
  • Tokyo Joe, 1997
  • The Heart of Asia
  • Esperanto, 1985
  • B-2 Unit, 1988
  • Chasm, 2004
  • The End of Asia, 1983
  • Flumina, 2011
  • Elephantism, 2002
  • Heartbeat, 1991
  • Out of Noise, 2009

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