Japanese violinist taro hakase biography

Japanese musician (born 1968)

Musical artist

Taro Hakase (葉加瀬 太郎, Hakase Tarō, born January 23, 1968 in Suita, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese musician who specialises as a violinist and composer.

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Biography

Career

Hakase was involved in a Japanese band called Kryzler & Kompany which formed while he was in college. He played the violin, while Tsuneyoshi Saito played keyboards, and Yoshinobu Takeshita played bass.^[1] Their first eponymous album was released in September 1990 and sold 74,000 copies.

Their second, Kryzler And Company #, sold over 81,000 copies. Steve McClure of Billboard wrote that they have become "Japan's unlikeliest pop idols, attracting hordes of screaming fans, a far cry from the decorum and reserve usually shown by Japan's classical music audiences."^[2] The band provided the music for Celine Dion's single "To Love You More" which was recorded as the theme song for the Japanese drama Koibito Yo (My Dear Lover Toggle share options BOG