COMPOSER

Ichirou Mizuki

1948 - 2022

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Toshio Hayakawa (早川 俊夫, Hayakawa Toshio; January 7, 1948 – December 6, 2022), better known by his stage name Ichirou Mizuki (水木 一郎, Mizuki Ichirō), was a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, voice actor and actor best known for his work on theme songs for anime and tokusatsu. For over 50 years, he had recorded over 1,200 songs for Japanese film, television, video and video games. He was referred to by fans and fellow performers alike as the Aniki (アニキ, "big brother") of the anison, or anime music genre. He produced the singing duo Apple Pie since 1990 and created the Anison band JAM Project in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ichirou Mizuki is the 293rd most popular composer (up from 355th in 2019), the 262nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 355th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 293 out of 1,451. Before him are Reynaldo Hahn, Emmanuel Chabrier, Clemens Krauss, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, and Franz Benda. After him are Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Georg Böhm, Gioseffo Zarlino, Antonio Soler, Louis-Claude Daquin, and Johann Jakob Froberger.

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Among people born in 1948, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 86. Before him are Brian Eno, William Gibson, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Svetlana Savitskaya, Edmund Kemper, and Jayalalithaa. After him are Raymond Leo Burke, Charles Maung Bo, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dominique Sanda, René Arnoux, and Beppe Grillo. Among people deceased in 2022, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 70. Before him are Jerry Lee Lewis, Hannah Pick-Goslar, Claes Oldenburg, Ayaz Mutallibov, Arata Isozaki, and Mehran Karimi Nasseri. After him are Tony Brooks, Frank Drake, Edward C. Prescott, Ivan Reitman, Jean-Jacques Sempé, and James Lovelock.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 262 out of 6,245. Before him are Arata Isozaki (1931), Kiyonosuke Marutani (null), Masahiro Hamazaki (1940), Empress Jingū (169), Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358), and Setsu Sawagata (null). After him are Kenzo Ohashi (1934), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Katō Kiyomasa (1561), Eizo Yuguchi (1945), Masanori Tokita (1925), and Shumpei Inoue (null).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Ichirou Mizuki ranks 2. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952). After him are Toru Takemitsu (1930), Miki Matsubara (1959), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Shunsuke Kikuchi (1931), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), Keiko Abe (1937), Kenji Kawai (1957), Akira Ifukube (1914), and Koji Kondo (1961).

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