What decade did Axl Rose and Masatoshi Ono vie for musical popularity?
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Axl Rose W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose Jr.; raised as William Bruce Bailey; February 6, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. He is the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, and has also been the band's sole constant member since its inception in 1985. In addition to Guns N' Roses, he has been the lead singer of AC/DC since 2016. Due to his powerful and wide vocal range and energetic live performances, Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including "Rolling Stone" and "NME".
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Masatoshi Ono Masatoshi Ono (小野正利 , Ono Masatoshi , born January 29, 1967 in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan) , also known as Sho, is a Japanese rock/heavy metal singer-songwriter and vocal coach. Ono got his start in the 1980s as vocalist of the heavy metal band Fort Bragg. In 1992, he released his first solo single, "Pure ni Nare", on Sony Records. But it wasn't until his third single, "You're the Only...", that he hit it big. The single helped Ono win the "Rookie of the Year" award at the 34th Japan Record Awards and an invitation to that year's "Kōhaku Uta Gassen".
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Dance-pop Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s. It is generally up-tempo music intended for nightclubs with the intention of being danceable but also suitable for contemporary hit radio. Developing from a combination of electronic dance music and pop music, with influences of disco music, post-disco, new wave, synth-pop, electropop and house, it is generally characterised by strong beats with easy, uncomplicated song structures which are generally more similar to pop music than the more free-form dance genre, with an emphasis on melody as well as catchy tunes. The genre, on the whole, tends to be producer-driven, despite some notable exceptions.
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Synth-pop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s, reached its heyday in the 1980s, and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the "Krautrock" of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.
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Aming Aming (あみん) is female Japanese pop/folk duo composed of Takako Okamura and Haruko Kato that debuted in 1982 with their hit "Matsu wa". However, they disbanded quickly, in November 1983.
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B-flower b-flower are a Japanese indie pop band formed in Kyoto, Japan, in the late 1980s. The band would be put under such banners as ネオアコースティック ("Neo-Acoustic") in Japan (see below), which refers to the sound heavily influenced by the British independent music scene of the 1980s, most notably alternative rock. ネオアコ ("Neo-Aco"), as often dubbed, was popular with the country's young generations in the 1990s.
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Naoto Inti Raymi Naoto Nakamura (中村 直人 , Nakamura Naoto ) , better known by his stage name Naoto Inti Raymi (ナオト・インティライミ , Naoto Intiraimi ) , is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He initially debuted with Sony in 2001 under the stage name Naoto (なおと ) , however rose to fame in 2010. He is also known for being a radio personality on bayfm in 2005, and for his travel diary "Sekai yo Odore", published in 2006.
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Yuya Uchida (entertainer) Yuya Uchida (Japanese: 内田 裕也 , Hepburn: Uchida Yūya , born November 17, 1939 in Nishinomiya) is a Japanese singer, record producer, and actor. With a career nearing six decades, he is regarded as a major figure in Japanese popular music.
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The Four Seasons (band) The Four Seasons is an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in the 1960s and 1970s. The Vocal Group Hall of Fame has stated that the group was the most popular rock band before the Beatles. Since 1970, they have also been known at times as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. In 1960, the group known as the Four Lovers evolved into the Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli as the lead singer, Bob Gaudio (formerly of the Royal Teens) on keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on lead guitar and baritone vocals, and Nick Massi on electric bass and bass vocals.
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Chiyo Okumura Chiyo Okumura (born February 18, 1947, Ikeda, Osaka) (奥村 チヨ Okumura Chiyo) is a popular Japanese pop singer, and former fashion model who debuted in the 1960s.
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Utada Hikaru Utada Hikaru (宇多田 ヒカル , born January 19, 1983) , who also goes by the mononym Utada ( ), is a Japanese American singer and songwriter. She debuted under the stage name "Cubic U" in 1998, releasing the English-language album "Precious", but rose to prominence in 1999 with the release of her second album (and first Japanese-language release), "First Love", which sold over eight million copies in Japan and became the best selling Japanese-language album of all time.
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Use Your Illusion Tour The Use Your Illusion Tour was a concert tour by the rock band Guns N' Roses which ran from January 20, 1991 to July 17, 1993. It was not only the band's longest tour, but one of the longest concert tours in rock history, consisting of 194 shows in 27 countries. It was also a source of much infamy for the band, due to riots, late starts, cancellations and outspoken rantings by Axl Rose.
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Seiko Matsuda Seiko Matsuda (松田 聖子 , Matsuda Seiko , born March 10, 1962) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Due to her popularity in the 1980s and her long career, she has been dubbed the "Eternal idol" by the Japanese media.
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Music Mania Music Mania was a series of annual concerts, headlined by 2000s pop acts.
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Katy Rose Kathryn Rosemary Bullard (born January 27, 1987), known as Katy Rose, is an American singer, songwriter, producer, musician and actress. Her music styles vary from indie rock, Electropop, grunge, pop, lounge music and techno.
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Arashi Arashi (嵐 , literally "Storm") is a Japanese idol group consisting of five members formed under the Johnny's Entertainment talent agency. The members are Ohno Satoshi, Sakurai Sho, Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazunari, and Matsumoto Jun. Arashi officially formed on September 15, 1999, in Honolulu, Hawaii, and made their debut CD on November 3, 1999. The group was initially signed to Pony Canyon and released one studio album and six singles—beginning with their 1999 eponymous debut single before moving to the Johnny's subsidiary label J Storm in 2001, which was initially set up for their succeeding releases. While their debut single sold close to a million copies, the group took a mixture of pop and alternate/contemporary approach to its music which attracted core followers, but subsequently faced commercially slow sales.
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Not in This Lifetime... Tour The Not in This Lifetime... tour is an ongoing series of concerts by hard rock band Guns N' Roses, featuring classic lineup members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, marking the first time since the Use Your Illusion Tour in 1993 that the three performed together.
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Ichirou Mizuki Toshio Hayakawa (早川 俊夫 , Hayakawa Toshio , born January 7, 1948 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan) , better known by his stage name Ichirou Mizuki (水木 一郎 , Mizuki Ichirō ) , is a Japanese vocalist, lyrist, composer, voice actor and actor best known for his work on theme songs for anime and tokusatsu. For over 40 years, he has recorded over 1200 songs for Japanese film, television, video and video games. He is referred to by fans and fellow performers alike as the "Aniki" (アニキ , "big brother" ) of the "anison", or anime music genre. He has produced the singing duo Apple Pie since 1990 and created the supergroup JAM Project in 2000.
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Hollywood Rose Hollywood Rose was an American hard rock group formed in 1983 and is best known as the precursor group for what would eventually become Guns N' Roses. The group was founded by Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin and Chris Weber while they were aided during live shows by Rick Mars, Johnny Kreis, Steve Darrow and Andre Troxx. Rose, Stradlin and Weber, along with Kreis, recorded a five-song demo in 1984. However, after a number of lineup changes, which includes Weber and Kreis being replaced by Slash and Steven Adler (both then of Road Crew) respectively as well the departure of Stradlin, the group disbanded the same year.
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Geoff Tate Geoff Tate (born Jeffrey Wayne Tate, January 14, 1959; he later changed his first name to Geoffery or Geoffrey) is a German-born American singer and musician. He rose to fame with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, who had commercial success with their 1988 album "" and 1990 album "Empire". Tate is ranked fourteenth on "Hit Parader"' s list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. He was voted No. 2 on "That Metal Show's" top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Award for "Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal". In 2015, he placed ninth on OC Weekly's list of the 10 Best High-Pitched Metal Singers. After his farewell tour as Queensrÿche, he renamed his band , after the Queensrÿche .
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Ax (manga) AX (アックス ) is a Japanese underground manga anthology. In October 2008, North American publisher Top Shelf announced that it will release a 400-page selection of underground manga stories called "AX Collection", edited by Sean Michael Wilson. The first volume was nominated for "Best American Edition of Foreign Material" at the 2011 Harvey Awards. "AX" has featured manga artists such as Suehiro Maruo, Shinichi Abe, Nishioka Kyoudai, Naoto Yamakawa, Usamaru Furuya, Toshio Saeki, Akino Kondoh, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, and Toyo Kataoka.
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Yuri Ichii Yuri Ichii (市井 由理 , Ichii Yuri , born December 20, 1972) is a Japanese pop idol, best known for being a member in the breakthrough Japanese hip hop trio, East End X Yuri. She was also a singer with the revolving-door group Tokyo Performance Doll (TPD) alongside Ryoko Shinohara. She was part of TPD for a while but sought to do something different; she decided to try rap. Ichii began practicing her rapping in preparation for a solo show with her friend Gaku, who was a part of the group East End. In February 1994 when Gaku performed with Yuri for part of her show, she was seen by File Records (the independent record label that signed East End). They were impressed with her and decided to sign them together for a mini-album.