Char

Person · Open Library

Works

32

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Japan

Active from

1955-06-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

58,876

Total plays

684,025

1. Char, who celebrates the 35th anniversary of his recording debut in 2011, is considered one of Japan’s most influential guitarists and an elder statesman of the Japanese music scene. He is noted for playing a Stratocaster, and he has done much to popularize the Fender Mustang® guitar in Japan. Born Hisato Takenaka in 1955, he took up guitar at age 8 after hearing the Ventures and assembled his first band, Fox, at age 11. Regarded as something of a prodigy, he was heavily influenced by the Ven

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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   · 2018 · cited 1,465x

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   · 2013 · cited 1,418x

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