Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952
- Died
- 2023-03-28
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Skmt
- From Satie to Cage
- Electronic music
- Film music
- Traditional music in Africa
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Film & TV
Sound · Tokyo, Japan
Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, January 17, 1952 - March 28, 2023) was a Japanese composer, record producer, and actor who had pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.
Known for
- Ryuichi Sakamoto | Playing the Orchestra 2014 — Self2025
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries — Self (archive footage)2025
- Ryuichi Sakamoto's Last Days2024
- Tonovan Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era — Self2024
- Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV — Self (archive footage)2023
- SUGA: Road to D-DAY — Self2023
- Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus — Self2023
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022 — Himself2022
- Brilliant Trees Sessions2021
- NHK MUSIC SPECIAL2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 188,793
- Total plays
- 6,567,035
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Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一, Sakamoto Ryūichi, born January 17, 1952 - 28 March 2023) was a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who had pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer, and arranger. <a hre
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,723x
- The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)
· 2020 · cited 6,575x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,581x
- Protacs: Chimeric molecules that target proteins to the Skp1–Cullin–F box complex for ubiquitination and degradation
· 2001 · cited 2,300x
- The selective autophagy substrate p62 activates the stress responsive transcription factor Nrf2 through inactivation of Keap1
· 2010 · cited 2,154x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-01-17 ) January 17, 1952, Nakano, Tokyo , Japan
- Died
- March 28, 2023 (2023-03-28) (aged 71), Tokyo, Japan
- Education
- Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music ( BA , MA )
- Occupations
- Musician record producer actor
- Years active
- 1975–2023
- Spouses
- Natsuko Sakamoto ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1982 ) Akiko Yano ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1982 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2006 )
- Children
- 3, including Miu Sakamoto and Neo Sora
- Genres
- Classical electronic ambient avant-garde electro electro-pop experimental film score glitch minimal synth-pop techno world
- Instruments
- Keyboards vocoder marimba sampler vocals
- Works
- Ryuichi Sakamoto discography
- Labels
- Columbia Alfa MIDI Sony Japan EMI For Life Warner commmons A&M Restless
Key dates
- Born
- 17 January 1952
- Died
- 28 March 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Nakano
- Place of death
- Tokyo
- Spouse
- Akiko Yano
- Occupation
- bandleader
- Educated at
- Tokyo University of the Arts
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
Article
Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 龍一, Hepburn: Sakamoto Ryūichi; January 17, 1952 – March 28, 2023) was a Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his YMO bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. As a film score composer, Sakamoto won an Academy Award (Oscar), BAFTA, Grammy and two Golden Globe Awards.
Sakamoto began his career as a session musician, producer, and arranger while he was at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in the mid 1970s. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. He pursued a solo career at the same time, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album Thousand Knives in that year, and the album B-2 Unit in 1980. B-2 Unit includes the track "Riot in Lagos", which had a significant influence on the development of electro, hip hop and dance music. He went on to produce more solo records, and collaborate with many international artists, including David Sylvian, DJ Spooky, Carsten Nicolai, Youssou N'Dour, and Fennesz. Sakamoto composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games, and his composition "Energy Flow" (1999) was the first instrumental number-one single in Japan's Oricon charts history.
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