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Ryuichi Sakamoto

1952 - 2023

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ryuichi Sakamoto is the 170th most popular composer (down from 155th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Japan (down from 88th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Composer.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is most famous for his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and for his film scores for the films Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and The Last Emperor.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 170 out of 1,451. Before him are Kurt Weill, Adrian Willaert, William Byrd, Karol Szymanowski, Hugo Wolf, and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. After him are Gian Carlo Menotti, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Michel Legrand, Luciano Berio, Henri Vieuxtemps, and Max Reger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 35. Before him are Jeff Goldblum, Hun Sen, Merrick Garland, Sammo Hung, Anneliese Michel, and Gary Moore. After him are Larry Fink, Péter Erdő, Oleg Blokhin, Jacques Audiard, Dominique Mamberti, and Maria Schneider. Among people deceased in 2023, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 34. Before him are Pat Robertson, Helmut Berger, Sixto Rodriguez, Jacques Delors, The Iron Sheik, and Carlos Saura. After him are Harry Belafonte, Raquel Welch, Mohamed Al-Fayed, C. R. Rao, Ryan O'Neal, and Astrud Gilberto.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 91 out of 6,245. Before him are Naoto Kan (1946), Empress Michiko (1934), Kōbō Abe (1924), Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Liv Ullmann (1938), and Emperor Itoku (-553). After him are Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Junko Tabei (1939), Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), Date Masamune (1567), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), and Tokugawa Hidetada (1579).

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Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Ryuichi Sakamoto ranks 1. After him are Ichirou Mizuki (1948), 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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