Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter R

An Academy Award-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer an

An Academy Award-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, record producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo. He played the keyboards in the influential electropop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. His 1999 musical composition "Energy Flow" is the first number-one instrumental single in the Japan's Oricon charts history.[1] He was ranked at number 59 in a list of the top 100 most influential musicians compiled by HMV.[2]

A musician working for Konami. In 2000, Ryu?, along with kors k won a contest started by Konami, in

A musician working for Konami. In 2000, Ryu?, along with kors k won a contest started by Konami, in which composers are to make music such that the winners would get their songs in the next beatmania IIDX installment. Ryu?'s entry "starmine" and kors k's "Clione" won the contest and both songs were featured in beatmania IIDX 4th style.Ryu? returned in beatmania IIDX 9th style with a remix of dj TAKA's "Abyss", and composed more songs in 10th style onwards. Since then, Ryu? has become a mainstay composer for Konami's Bemani series as well as a freelance musician. Ryu? has become a part of beatnation records, which compose of kors k, dj TAKA, L.E.D., Sota Fujimori and DJ YOSHITAKA.