The Last Emperor
Ryuichi Sakamoto
['johann pachelbel', 'fort minor', 'rota', 'claude debussy', 'haven gillespie', 'yuvan shankar raja', 'the box tops', 'rise against', 'club nouveau', 'siw malmkvist', 'megadeth', 'hawthorne heights', 'frank loesser', 'feargal sharkey', 'stacey q', 'queen latifah', 'manowar', 'lalo schifrin', 'harvey danger', 'cherrelle', 'meghan trainor', 'far east movement', 'jean sibelius', 'project 86', 'cat stevens', 'harris jayaraj', 'david gray', 'alain boublil', 'duran duran', 'edward elgar', 'katy perry', 'bananarama', 'edvard grieg', 'kalomira', 'cyndi lauper', 'sentenced', 'the jimi hendrix experience', 'moonspell', 'carl perkins', 'superfly', 'bloodhound gang', 'steven van zandt', 'alannah myles', 'the chambers brothers', 'emma bunton', 'barbra streisand', 'daft punk', 'cavalera conspiracy', 'kt tunstall', 'devi sri prasad', 'demi lovato', 'ralph benatzky', 'sean kingston', 'razorlight', 'afrojack', 'charlie parker', 'gloria gaynor', 'electric light orchestra', 'leona lewis', 'pixie lott', 'freddy king', 'elvis costello', 'stereolab', 'three 6 mafia', 'sandy west', 'jerry herst', 'georg philipp telemann', 'eubie blake', 'crystal gayle', 'jimmy barnes', 'warcry', 'juanes', 'x japan', 'suicidal tendencies', 'faith no more', 'billy bragg', 'arthur darvill', 'elliot goldenthal', 'celtic frost', 'color me badd', 'creedence clearwater revival', 'lynyrd skynyrd', 'boogie down productions', 'joy division', 'leighton meester', 'zimmer', 'joseph haydn', 'the kills', 'pixies', 'rodgers', 'the hollies', 'sigmund romberg', 'everclear', 'jimmy mchugh', 'spice girls', 'garth brooks', 'the wanted', 'jim nabors', 'you am i']
Kōji Ueno
Kōji Ueno (上野 耕路 Ueno Kōji, born February 1, 1960 in Chiba Prefecture) is an award-winning Japanese composer, musician, arranger and keyboardist. He is noted for his unique style of music. He graduated from Nihon University's department of music at its faculty of art, and in 1978, began his career in music with his first music ensemble, 8&1/2, after which he worked with the group Halmens between 1979 and 1981. In 1980, Ueno formed the musical group Guernica, noted for its unique form of avant garde music, along with vocalist Jun Togawa and lyricist Keichi Ohta. In the 1980s, Ueno worked with renowned composer Ryuichi Sakamoto on the soundtracks of the films Koneko Monogatari, Oritsu Uchūgun - Oneamisu no Tsubasa, and The Last Emperor. In 2004, he composed the music for the lauded Takashi Nakamura-directed anime TV series, Fantastic Children. Ueno has recently formed the musical group Netszo & Gansaku, with the first album, Polarity Integration released by Sony Music on April 2007. Ueno has also lectured on film music at the Faculty of Art at Nihon University. He has won several awards, including the award for best musical composition at the 1989 Mainichi Film Festival for his composition of the musical score for the film Untama Giru, and has also won numerous international awards, including the best music at the Festival Des Trois Continents in Nantes in 1989, as well as the "Cristal tcheque pour la musique contemporaine" at the 32nd Golden Prague International Television Festival in 1995, held in Prague, for his score for the NHK television series, The Pale Cast of Thought.