I'M ANJALI RAO IN TOKYO AS PART OF OUR SPECIAL JAPAN NOW SERIES. THIS IS TALK ASIA. WE'RE WITH ONE OF JAPAN'S BEST KNOWN SINGERS, KEN HIRAI. AS THE UNDOUBTED KING OF JAPAN'S R & B SCENE, HE'S ONE OF ONLY A FEW TRULY SOULFUL VOICES IN A SEA OF J-POPSTERS. KH: I consider myself a Japanese J-pop singer who happens to love soul music. AND UNLIKE OTHER CHART-TOPPERS WHO CHURN OUT SINGLE AFTER SINGLE, WHEN IT COMES TO HIS WORK, KEN TAKES HIS OWN SWEET TIME!

Feb 26, 2007 Ken Hirai Talkasia Interview. You also compose your own work which is really pretty rare these days on the pop scene. Ken Hirai on stage. Here you can find sentimentalovers shared files. Download Ken Hirai SENTIMENTALovers rar mediafire free from TraDownload. 0 Comments Leave a Reply.

HE IS RECORDING NOW, THOUGH, AND HE INVITED TALK ASIA INTO THE STUDIO. BLOCK A AR: Ken, welcome to Talk Asia0You haven't released an album since 2004, though you are working on a new single now.

What have you been up to in the interim? KH: Back in 2005, I released a new single, and after that I produced my best-of disc for my 10th anniversary. As far as this year is concerned, I've been keeping busy.

I released a new single back in the summer and I also went on a concert tour for my anniversary in between. I even did a full summer tour this year. Right now I'm in the studio recording my next single. So to sum it all up for you, I've been working very hard. AR: As far as albums go, though, it is sort of your trademark, isn't it?

You put one out and then you're the talk of town and suddenly you just go very, very quiet. What's that about?

KH: I really have no special reason for taking this approach. Recording an album is a very demanding process and it consumes a lot of time and energy. In recent years, my albums were usually released towards the end of year. Then the new year comes after that and it's time to take a break. Slayers Evox Auto Installer V2.6 Password. It is not that I have been enjoying any vacations -- I am continuously making music.

It's just that I am working more often on activities behind the scenes, and the public might think I haven't been working during that time. AR: Everybody knows that you have done a lot so far. You've got countless thousands of fans, you've got plenty awards as well.

Did the response to your music take you by surprise, though, given that when you think of R&B, Japan doesn't automatically spring to mind? KH: I love the music of R&B -- everything from soul music in the 1970's like Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, to the so-called new classic soul you see with performers like D'Angelo. Download Free Cours De Tuyauterie Gratuit Pdf Creator.

I managed to bring that style of music into J-POP and in doing so I presented it specifically to the Japanese market. However, I don't necessarily consider myself to be a pure R&B singer, especially when you consider some of my recent work. KH: I consider myself a Japanese J-pop singer who happens to love soul music. That's today. But surely around the year 2000, I was a little more conscious of the styles you find in American R&B music. AR: Still though with a voice like yours, I guess it would've been really easy to just slot into main stream J-Pop if you had wanted to.

Anita Blake The Killing Dance Pdf. What was it specifically that struck you about R&B and made you think this is the direction I want my career to go on? KH: These days I am making music now in a much broader genre and I don't consider myself a pure R&B performer. But the reason that I got into R&B in the first place was simply that I loved the music. And if I may say it in this way, I was able to take advantage of the R&B boom that was going on in Japan at that time. R&B was taking off. Back then, five years had passed since my debut on the music scene and I had not had an overly successful career up to that point.