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Michio Mamiya (b Asahikawa, 29 June 1929) is a Japanese composer.
A pupil of Ikenouchi (1947-52), he has collected and arranged folk music. His compositions draw on it and since 1963 also on African music and jazz.
His works include dramatic, choral and orchestral pieces, some for Japanese instruments. .
Michio Kaku (born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in and co founder of string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs and a best-selling author.
Kaku was born in San Jose, California to Japanese immigrant parents, and attended and played first board on the chess team of Cubberly High School in Palo Alto in the early 1960s. At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, N.M., he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku graduated...
Michio Miyagi (宮城道雄, April 7, 1894 - June 25, 1956) was a Japanese musician, famous for his koto playing.
He was born in Kobe. He lost his sight in 1902, when he was 8 years old, and started his study in koto under the guidance of Nakajima Kengyo II, dedicating the rest of his life to the instrument. In 1907 he moved with his family to Incheon, in southern Korea. When he was 14 years old, in 1909 he finished his first composition, Mizu no Hentai. At 18 he reached the rank of kengyo, the highest rank for a koto...
Michio is a guitarist and composer and lives in Düsseldorf/Germany. With the Michio Flamenco Project (guitar, bass, vocals, dance, shakuhachi, percussion) he performs all over Europe and Japan. His latest CD, Así nada más, was released in October 2008 under the Alameda Production label and is distributed by Galileo MC.
Find more at www.michio-world.org.
The secret behind Michio's music lies in the successful blend of Mediterranean guitar, passionate Andalusian song and influences from the Far East. Michio transgresses boundaries in his compositions, inviting you to listen, dance or simply relax and chill out.
Yet when he performs live it becomes...
