Tomoyasu Hotei - Tomoyasu Hotei ( Hotei Tomoyasu born on February 1 1962 in Takasaki Gunma Japan) is a Japanese musician guitarist composer singer-songwriter producer and actor. With a career spanning more than 30 years Hotei has sold millions of albums and has collaborated with acclaimed artists around the world. Hotei first rose to prominence in the 1980s as the guitarist for Bowy one of Japan's most popular rock bands before starting a solo career. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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