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The 1980s experienced
quite a boom in Japanese popular music around Asia, and that
led to big hits for many Chinese artists.
EMIL CHAU WAKIN is one who has made very successful
J-pop adaptations, using his down-to-earth style and incomparable
vocals to create signature hits in Mandarin and Cantonese that
his fans over the years and the miles cannot do without! The group was formed in the mid-1980s, and its early influences were the U.K.'s post-punk and ska (Jamaican dance music) scenes. By early 1992 The Boom had released their fourth album, Shishunki, that marked a change of direction in their music. The Boom's lead singer, KAZUFUMI MIYAZAWA (on the bottom right side of the picture above), had come to discover and fall in love with the Okinawan islands and their colorful folk traditions, intermingled with cultural influences from Southeast Asia and China, so distinctly different from those of mainland Japan. |
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Miyazawa took up the sanshin, a three-stringed lute that is central to Okinawan music, and The Boom cut three Okinawan-style tracks for the Shishunki CD. "Shima Uta" with its folk-like melody first topped the music charts in Okinawa as a single. Then the song went on to sell over 1.5 million copies nationwide in June 1993, and it was awarded Japan's annual "Grammy" equivalent for Best Single that year. So there's little wonder why this Japanese song had caught the attention of Emil Chau! Feel free to have a listen. — A. Kurita, WWS
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