Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO), a group he formed in 1978 alongside Hosono Haruomi and Takahashi Yukihiro, used synthesisers in instrumental songs intended for dancing-a novel combination at the time. There, he also explored an interest in the traditional music of Japan’s Okinawa prefecture as well as in that of India and Africa.Įarly in his career, Mr Sakamoto trained his ears on the sound of technology. He graduated from one of Tokyo’s top conservatories, where he studied Western classical music, becoming especially enamoured with Claude Debussy. Mr Sakamoto was born in Tokyo in 1952 and took to music early.
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