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HKT48 is a Japanese female idol group based in Fukuoka. The group is produced by Yasushi Akimoto, and it is the third sister group to AKB48 (after SKE48 and NMB48).The group's 21 first-generation members were announced on October 23, 2011, and their debut performance take place at the end of 2011. HKT48 is named after the Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, where Yasushi Akimoto originally intended to base the group.HKT48's theater is located in Hawks Town Mall in Chuo-ku, Fukuoka. Plans for a group entitled HKT48 were first revealed by AKB48 producer Yasushi Akimoto on November 19, 2008.HKT48 was officially announced on...

There are at least two artists with this name 1. Kouhei Matsunaga grew up in Osaka, Japan. He studied architecture and was listening to hardcore techno and rap music. He started to make music back in 1992 focusing on rather experimental music. Kouhei also worked with artists like Merzbow, John Watermann, Asmus Tietchens, Rudolf Eb.er, Anla Courtis, Greg Davis, Conrad Schnitzler, Lesser, Sean Booth (Autechre), Mika Vainio, Max Turner, PM (Puppetmastaz) and Sensational (ex Jungle Brothers). For his project NHK he collaborates with Toshio Munehiro. Today Kouhei lives in Berlin. 2. A Japanese punk/loligrind band .

Kottarashky is a 21st century digital master musician with his hands sunk deep in the past - vintage Balkan field recordings, classic jazz and blues, psychedelic sounds, club beats and extraordinary, archetypal Gypsy voices, guttural shouts and lyrical laments are all molded and thrown into new shapes. The songs of his debut album “Opa Hey!” sound like tales told by people who have all the time in the world: time to contemplate, enjoy, engage and dream; to take pleasure in unexpected twists and turns; to be inspired by the details and vividness of marginal existence. Kottarashky is an architect by...

Anoushka Shankar (अनुष्का शंकर) (b. 1981), is a sitar player and composer from India. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Shankar. She began playing sitar under her fathers guidance at the age of nine and blossomed into a wonderful musician. She is becoming increasingly known for not only her recital work but for her own classical Indian compositions. Born on 9th June 1981, when Shankar was eight years old her father began training her in the sitar. She gave a public performance at the age of thirteen; since then she has become a world...