Kan Mikami

Person · Open Library

Born

1950

Works

4

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

9,096

Total plays

200,081

Kan Mikami (三上寛) takes much of his inspiration from the school of singer/songwriters and blues vocalists. From the rural district of Tsugaru, Mikami's parched voice and plaintive electric guitar (sometimes the only backing) reveals the true spirit of the folkish sad blues, even though he sings in Japanese. Of course, comparisons to Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf are just as far from the truth as Bertolt Brecht or Jacques Brel, but the guitarist weaves elements of all of them to create an undeniabl

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 9,734x

2. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,222x

3. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2021 · cited 6,477x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

   · 2017 · cited 6,083x

5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

   · 2016 · cited 5,645x

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Key dates

Born

20 March 1950

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

Japan

Occupation

singer-songwriter

Languages spoken

Japanese

Genre

traditional folk music

Instrument

voice

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