Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto  ya kasance mawaƙi, mawaƙi, keyboardist, mai yin rikodin rikodin, mawaƙi da kuma ɗan wasan kwaikwayo. Ya bi nau'o'i daban-daban a matsayin mai zane-zane kuma a matsayin memba na ƙungiyar Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). Tare da abokan aikinsa na YMO Haruomi Hosono da Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto ya rinjayi kuma ya jagoranci nau'ikan kiɗa na lantarki da yawa. A matsayinta na mawaki na fim, Sakamoto ta lashe lambar yabo ta Kwalejin (Oscar), BAFTA, Grammy da lambar yabo ta Golden Globe guda biyu.

Sakamoto ya fara aikinsa a matsayin mawaƙi, furodusa, da kuma mai shirya yayin da yake a Jami'ar Fine Arts da Kiɗa ta Tokyo a tsakiyar shekarun 1970. Babban nasararsa ta farko ta zo ne a shekarar 1978 a matsayin wanda ya kafa YMO . Ya bi aikin solo a lokaci guda, ya saki kundin gwaji na lantarki mai suna Thousand Knives a wannan shekarar, da kuma kundin B-2 Unit a 1980. B-2 Unit ya Haɗuwa da waƙar "Riot in Lagos", wanda ke da tasiri sosai a kan ci gaban electro, hip hop da kiɗa na rawa.[1][2][3] Ya ci gaba da samar da karin rikodin solo, kuma ya hada kai da masu fasaha da yawa na duniya, ciki har da David Sylvian, DJ Spooky, Carsten Nicolai, Youssou N'Dour, da Fennesz. Sakamoto ya kirkiro kiɗa don bikin buɗewa wasannin Olympics na 1992 na Barcelona, kuma waƙarsa "Energy Flow" (1999) ita ce ta farko da aka yi amfani da ita a tarihin sigogi na Oricon na Japan. [4][5]

An haifi Ryuichi Sakamoto a ranar 17 ga Janairu, 1952, a Tokyo . Mahaifinsa, Kazuki Sakamoto, sanannen editan wallafe-wallafen ne, kuma mahaifiyarsa, Keiko (Shimomura) Sakamoto ta tsara hatunan mata. Ya fara karatun piano yana da shekaru 6, kuma ya fara yin waka yana da shekaru 10. Tasirinsa na farko ya haɗa da Johann Sebastian Bach da Claude Debussy - wanda ya taɓa kiransa "ƙofar duk kiɗa na ƙarni na 20." Ya kuma ce, "kiɗan Asiya" (Javanese Gamelan) "ya rinjayi Debussy sosai, kuma Debussy ya rinjayi ni sosai. Don haka, kiɗa yana kewaye da duniya kuma ya zo cikakkiyar zagaye. "

Ya gano jazz da rock and roll a matsayin matashi, lokacin da ya fada tare da taron 'yan tawaye na hipster. Har ila yau, mawaƙa na jazz kamar John Coltrane da Ornette Coleman, da kuma ƙungiyar mawaƙa irin su The Beatles da The Rolling Stones sun rinjaye shi. Ya bayyana sha'awarsa ta siyasa a lokacin da yake dalibi a matsayin "ba kashi 100 cikin 100 na Marxist ba, amma irin wannan".[1] A lokacin da daliban Japan suka yi zanga-zangar, shi da Yasuhisa Shiozaki tare da wasu abokan aji da yawa sun rufe kansu a ofishin shugabannin makarantar sakandare, suna neman canje-canje ga yadda ake gudanar da makarantar.[2]

Sakamoto ya shiga Jami'ar Fine Arts da Kiɗa ta Tokyo a shekarar 1970,  inda ya sami B.A. a cikin kiɗa a shekara ta 1974 da MA a shekara ta 1976, tare da jaddadawa ta musamman kan kiɗa na lantarki da kabilanci. Ya yi karatun ethnomusicology a can tare da niyyar zama mai bincike a fagen, saboda sha'awarsa ga al'adun kiɗa daban-daban na duniya, musamman Jafananci, Okinawan, Indiya, Indonesian da al'adun kide-kide na Afirka. An kuma horar da shi a cikin kiɗa na gargajiya kuma ya fara gwaji tare da kayan aikin kiɗa na lantarki da ke akwai a jami'ar, gami da masu haɗawa kamar Buchla, Moog, da ARP.

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