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Yesterday was the birthday of Kitaro, who was born Masanori Takahashi in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. He was a major influence on Sandra Sakata of the art to wear boutique, Obiko, and art to wear fashion designer, Kaisik Wong (links below).
Kitaro is a graduate of Sahid University. Kitarō, which is his boyhood name meaning "man of love and joy", a practicing Buddhist himself, was born in a family of Shinto-Buddhist farmers.
After graduating his parents were first opposed to the idea of their
son having a musical career. In an effort to maneuver him towards their
vision, they made arrangements for him to take a job at a local
company. In return, he did not show for the job without telling them,
and managed to convince them to work on something he loved.
In high school Kitarō played electric guitar in a band that played American rhythm and blues of Otis Redding and covers by The Beatles.
After graduating, and learning to play drums and bass, Kitaro moved to
Tokyo to experience and become a part of the music scene, and it was
there that he discovered the synthesizer. His first synthesizer was analog, and he recalls having "just loved the analog sound that it made compared to today's digital sound".
He lived in Ward, Colorado,
on a 180-acre (72.85 hectare) spread and composed in his
2500-square-foot (230 m²) home studio "Mochi House" (it is large enough
to hold a 70-piece orchestra).[20] Around 2005, they relocated to Sebastopol, California.
Kitaro won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for Thinking of You (1999), with a record 16 nominations in the same category. He received a Golden Globe Award for the original score to Heaven & Earth (1993).
photo by Eddie Sung
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