As a member of the Japanese techno-pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sakamoto Ryuichi helped pioneer modern electronic music
Mr Sakamoto was born in Tokyo in 1952 and took to music early. He graduated from one of Tokyo’s top conservatories, where he studied Western classical music, becoming especially enamoured with Claude Debussy. There, he also explored an interest in the traditional music of Japan’s Okinawa prefecture as well as in that of India and Africa.
“I want to break down the walls between genres, categories or cultures,” he said many years later. He described his philosophy as “outernationalism”. “Being outernational is like Moses in the desert. There’s no country.”
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