Jpop

The theme song for the new 2010 Doraemon movie “Nobita’s Great Battle of the Mermaid King” Doraemon Nobita no Ningyo Daikaisen” 映画ドラえもん のび太の人魚大海戦 is a beautiful song by 23 year old Japanese American R&B singer Thelma Aoyama 青山テルマ from Okinawa.
A few weeks ago on January 27th, Thelma had released her newest single, Fall in Love, which [...]

Here we have Japan’s top 30 singles from CDTV for the first week of February with Korean group Tohoshinki occupying number 1 with “BREAK OUT!”.
30- Motohiro Hata – “Ai”
29- NERDHEAD – “BRAVE HEART” feat. Kana Nishino
28- FictionJunction – “Toki no Mukou Maboroshi no Sora”
27- Dohatsuten – “Doman Naka Bushi”
26- Saburo Kitajima – “Fuu Fuisshou”
25- [...]

Japanese band Monkey Majik  is well respected in Japan and the group  has collaborated on singles with Jpop artists M-flo, SEAMO 高田 尚輝, and the Yoshida Brothers 吉田兄弟. In July 2007 they released their fourth full-length album “Sora wa maru de” 空はまるで, (roughly translated into “the sky is so” ) in which the title [...]

Pretty 23 year old Japanese fashion model Saki Namba (Saki Nanba) 難波 さき  is an exclusive model for Happie NUTS magazine.  The 23 year old from Hyogo who likes singing karaoke, playing video games and watching DVDs recently featured in the new music video Tokyo Tower 東京タワー by Jpop singer  GOKIGEN SOUND ごきげんさん.
GOKIGEN SOUND music [...]

The world’s youngest guitar pro is 9 year old Yuto Miyazawa 宮澤佑門.  This tokyo born  rock guitar child prodigy was discovered by Steve Bernstein, president of Zenbu Media in December 2007  and was named  “The Youngest Professional Guitarist” by Guinness Book of World Records in August, 2008.
Since his discovery, Miyazawa has had the opportunity to [...]

Who’s on top of the Jpop charts during this first month of 2010?  Here we have Japan’s top 30 singles from CDTV for the week of January 17th week with diva Ayumi Hamasaki occupying number 1 with “You were… / BALLAD”.  Kana Nishino’s Dear…/Maybe drops to 25 while 9mm Parabellum Bullet’s “Inochi no Zenmai” [...]

Japanese hip hop masters  m-flo エムフロウ consist of producer and DJ Taku Takahashi and emcee Verbal.  These guys are have some great records and everyone in the hip hop and Jpop scene in Japan wants to collaborate with them.
One of their early and best collaborations was  miss you which was released on October 22nd, 2003.  [...]