Tetsuya Komuro ( 小室 哲哉 , Komuro Tetsuya , born November 27, 1958) is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and has introduced contemporary electronic dance music to the Japanese mainstream. He was also a former owner of the disco Velfarre located in Roppongi , Tokyo.
34-451: TM Network is a Japanese rock/new wave/pop musical band, made up by Tetsuya Komuro (keyboardist), Takashi Utsunomiya (vocalist) and Naoto Kine (guitarist). They became popular in Japan as the "futuristic pop songs with synthesizer" after the release of their 1987 single "Get Wild". Tetsuya Komuro became a famous producer of dance -oriented J-pop singers in 1990s, and as such they are considered
68-506: A company position directly under his control. On May 11, 2009, Komuro received a suspended three-year prison sentence. According to the sentencing judge, Komuro's acceptance of responsibility and the fact that restitution had been made greatly influenced the final sentence, and further went on to state that no good to society would come from Komuro's imprisonment. At the Avex Group Holdings' concert tour a-nation 2009 , Komuro made
102-613: A composer and producer, Komuro wrote a song "My Revolution" for Misato Watanabe . The song received the Golden Award at 28th Japan Record Awards in 1986. TM Network released single "The Point of Lovers' Night" on July 7, 1990. The single also topped the Oricon weekly charts, beating out Wink 's single " Yoru ni Hagurete (Where Were You Last Night) ". TM Network changed its name to TMN in 1990. In 1991, he collaborated with X Japan drummer and pianist Yoshiki as V2. TMN disbanded in 1994. By
136-925: A concert (complete show) for the first time with his father Julio Iglesias in a tour in Romania , on 22 May at Sala Polivalentă in Cluj-Napoca and 2 July at Sala Palatului in the capital Bucharest . Iglesias is a Catholic and descendant of the religious Filipino-Spanish clan Arrastia from the Arrastia family of Lubao, Pampanga the Philippines . In October 1999, he legally changed his name from Julio José Iglesias to Julio Iglesias Jr. In May 2011, Iglesias Jr. became engaged to Belgian model Charisse Verhaert (born 1982) after 7 years of dating. The religious wedding took place on 3 November 2012 in Aldea del Fresno , Spain. In August 2020,
170-535: A country music contract. His single "The Way I Want You" was released to country radio on 10 March 2008 and was produced by Gone Country host John Rich . Iglesias Jr. also appeared on the ABC TV show the superstars . He was partnered with soccer player Brandi Chastain; they finished in fourth place in the competition. In 2014, he joined the band Latin Lovers with Nuno Resende and Damien Sargue . In 2015, he performed
204-554: A press campaign to further gain exposure of Iglesias Jr. to the English speaking entertainment industry. Some of his notable accomplishments was his participation on Oprah Winfrey 's talk show and was featured in an advertisement for Gap and he modeled for designer John Bartlett VII on Sixth Fashion Show. He was offered two soap opera jobs, one at Televisa and one in the ABC soap opera All My Children . Iglesias Jr. also received an offer from
238-474: A prototype of the J-pop genre. However, their 2000 album Major Turn-Round was influenced by progressive rock . Vocalist Takashi Utsunomiya and guitarist and songwriter Naoto Kine were originally in a band together called Speedway during their school days. Keyboardist and songwriter Tetsuya Komuro would join for a few months before leaving to pursue solo activities. When he sent a demo tape he made to some friends he
272-459: A surprise appearance on August 22, 2009. He played a medley of his hit songs at the piano and later reunited on stage with his fellow members of the J-pop group globe, Marc Panther and his wife Keiko Yamada . Komuro composed AAA 's double A-side single " Aitai Riyū/Dream After Dream (Yume Kara Sameta Yume) ". The single was released on May 5, 2010. He composed almost all the songs on Love Songs ,
306-533: A world record. In 1995, he monopolized all top 3 positions of the copyright distribution rankings for the JASRAC Award, a record in Japan's music history. At his peak as a record producer the artists he predominantly produced for came to be known as TK Family and at one time included Namie Amuro , hitomi , TRF , Tomomi Kahara and Ami Suzuki amongst others. As of 2008, records produced by him had sold more than 170 million copies, primarily in Japan. Total sales of
340-414: Is reported to view Komuro as his "Sensei" or "Teacher". In 1997, he started his overseas career with the remix of the theme music for the soundtrack to the 1997 American film Speed 2: Cruise Control , which Japanese MMA fighter Kazushi Sakuraba and English pro wrestler Johnny Smith later adopted as their entrance music . Komuro also released albums as a solo singer or musician and was involved in
374-601: The Hispanic media in the United States but attained minority success. He worked for Hola Magazine , appearing in several photoshoots. More recently he has taken part in a series in Spain called Club de Flo , in which Spanish politicians and celebrities have to present a comedy routine. The show was unsuccessful and cancelled after several episodes. He has moved back to Spain and is living with his mother Isabel Preysler. He appeared on
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#1732906251567408-443: The closing credits song "Your Song". He subsequently composed other soundtracks such as Heaven and Earth and Seven Days War . As a solo singer, Komuro released singles "Running to Horizon" and "Gravity of Love" in 1989. "Running to Horizon" topped the Oricon charts. "Gravity of Love" also topped the Oricon charts, beating out Seiko Matsuda 's "Precious Heart". In 1989 and 1990, Komuro collaborated with Warren Cuccurullo . As
442-566: The 1988 anime film Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack . Several musicians have supported them at their live shows as backing bands such as Tak Matsumoto ( B'z ), Daisuke Asakura ( Access ), and more. They changed their name to TMN in 1990, and broke up in 1994. In 1996 Komuro and Utsunomiya got Kine to play on a song they did together and included it on a new compilation album. They fully reunited under their original name in 1999 and released three singles. Afterwards they signed with an independent label, Rojam Entertainment, which released
476-471: The 2010 album of Japanese pop-star Ayumi Hamasaki . He also composed the 2013 single "Feel The Love" by Ayumi Hamasaki . In January 2018, Komuro announced his retirement from the music industry, following revelations of an affair he had with a nurse who had been taking care of his wife Keiko after her brain surgery. In July 2020, Komuro once again returned to the industry producing singles for Ayumi Hamasaki & Nogizaka46 . In February 2021, it
510-496: The CD single for the studio version of the song "How Crash?", which was performed for the first time during the concerts. Sony Music Japan later announced that their TM Network catalog would become available on all music download services worldwide. Shortly after this the band releases their next single "Please Heal the World" as NFT released exclusively through the messaging service Line. In 2022
544-635: The Producers of the Broadway show Grease to star as Danny, but decided to turn down these job offers because he wanted to focus on his music. Iglesias Jr. signed a recording agreement with Epic Records and he traveled to Miami where he began to record his first album, Under My Eyes , with Rodolfo Castillo. Released in 1999, the recording of this album took them to New York City and Los Angeles, two songs released from this English language album are "One More Chance" and "Under My Eyes". Among promotional appearances for
578-583: The Spanish version of Dancing with the Stars called "¡Mira quien baila!" but was voted out in the thirteenth week. He has played the lead role in a drama film entitled The Music of You directed by Lloyd DeSouza. In 2008, Iglesias Jr. was the winner of the first season of CMT reality Television show Gone Country , in which artists from other genres of music lived together in a house in Nashville and competed to win
612-592: The album, Iglesias Jr. performed "One More Chance" at the Miss Universe 1999 Pageant and opened for Cher on her tour of North America. The album failed to gain success in the United States and soon after Iglesias Jr. departed from Epic Records. Iglesias Jr's. second album, Tercera Dimension , was released in 2003 on the Warner Music Group and featured Spanish pop rock songs with the singles "Los Demas" and "Dejame Volar". Both albums received public interest from
646-457: The band announced the "Fanks Intelligence Days" tour, which marked Komuro's first tour since news of his infidelity became public. They collaborated with musicians such as Julio Iglesias Jr. , Sheila E. and Leehom Wang for "Happiness×3 Loneliness×3" in 1999. Tetsuya Komuro In the Oricon singles chart of April 1996, he monopolized all the top 5 positions as the songwriter and producer,
680-759: The band's ninth album, Major Turn-Round in 2000. In 2004 the band would release their tenth album Easy Listening , which showed Komuro's interest in trance music. Once Komuro had finished touring extensively with globe he got Kine and Utsunomiya back together to make their eleventh album SPEEDWAY in 2007. The band then ceased activities following the fraud allocations against Komuro. Following Komuro's return to music they resumed working together again. They them signed with avex Entertainment and released their twelfth album Quit30 in 2014. The band continued to tour regularly, but Komuro's withdrawal from public appearances in 2018 following revelations of infidelity to his wife, globe singer Keiko Yamada , once again put an end to
714-416: The bands Globe , Kiss Destination and Gaball. On December 31, 1998, his band Globe's song "Wanna Be A Dreammaker" received the grand prix award at the 40th edition of Japan Record Award . In 1999, Komuro, Utsunomiya and Kine reunited under their old name of TM Network, and remain active to this day. Komuro worked in collaboration with French keyboardist Jean Michel Jarre from 1998 to 2001. The duet wrote
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#1732906251567748-615: The district from Tokyo they all came from. On August 22, 1983, TM Network took part in the "Fresh Sounds Contest " (フレッシュサウンズコンテスト) which was sponsored by Coca-Cola . They performed the song "1974", and the event was aired on TBS . This was their first step towards a record deal. They made their record debut with single "Kin'yōbi no Lion (Take It to the Lucky)" ( lit. "Friday's lion") and album Rainbow Rainbow on April 21, 1984. They first became famous in Hokkaido . They later found success with
782-407: The early 1990s, Komuro was spending much of his time writing songs for and producing many other musicians and bands. He was also an early pioneer of dance music in Japan, and came to stardom in the 1990s as producer with a long string of hits with artists such as TRF (TK Rave Factory), Tomomi Kahala , Namie Amuro , Ami Suzuki , hitomi , Ryoko Shinohara and H Jungle with t. In 1994, he composed
816-474: The film. He was mainly helped in this task by the mix engineers Pete Hammond and Dave Ford . Both were working for PWL , which was the home of the British producing team Stock Aitken Waterman . Not only that, "TK" is also credited for the rise to fame of Daisuke Asakura , a popular Japanese composer, keyboardist and music producer who began his major musical career as a backup keyboardist for TM Network . Asakura
850-453: The group's activities. In 2021, the group reunited once more and began performing a series of virtual concerts titled How Do You Crash It? The first concert was streamed on October 9, 2021, the second streamed on December 11, and the third in February the following year. In the summer of 2022, avex released live CDs of all three concerts and a compilation Blu-Ray. The deluxe edition contained
884-670: The help of his friend and manager Darius Jordi Lassus, first got into show business as a model. It was his manager that negotiated an exclusive male modeling agreement with Joey Hunter (at the time he was the president of the Male Model division) at the Ford Models Agency in New York. It was through Joey Hunter, that Iglesias Jr. was discovered by photographer Bruce Weber . He went on to campaign for Versace . Shortly after, Iglesias Jr. signed on with publicity executive Ruben Malaret who began
918-552: The musical score to the Japanese anime film Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie , based on the Capcom video game. Ryōko Shinohara recorded the theme song of the anime film, " Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokoro Zuyosa to ", with Tetsuya Komuro. The single of the theme song was released on July 21, 1994, and sold over two million copies on Oricon charts. This score was removed from the US release of
952-669: The older brother of Enrique Iglesias . His parents divorced in 1979. Iglesias Jr. and his siblings moved to Miami to live with their father. Iglesias Jr. went to college near San Francisco at Menlo College in Atherton, California . He won a chance to participate in NBC 's Out of the Blue and he worked for the Travel Channel , where he hosted a travel show that took him to Latin America. Iglesias Jr., with
986-451: The singles he has written exceed 42 million copies, making him the fourth best-selling lyricist in Japan. His career started as a keyboardist for Speedway in 1979. In 1984, he created the TM Network with Takashi Utsunomiya and Naoto Kine. A year later, in 1985, his first solo work was the soundtrack Vampire Hunter D for the anime movie Vampire Hunter D , and his band, TM Network, did
1020-458: The songs "Self Control", "Get Wild", " Beyond the Time ", and others, becoming one of the most popular rock bands in Japan. In particular, in the anime world, "Get Wild", used as the first ending song of City Hunter , sold a combined 525,010 single in Japan. "Get Wild" has received a number of covers by many J-pop bands and singers, as well as Vocaloids . "Beyond the Time" was used as the ending theme
1054-469: The theme song for the 1998 FIFA World Cup , " Together Now ", as well as several other tracks and remixes. He and Jarre also performed a concert on beaches in Okinawa on January 1, 2001. On November 4, 2008, Komuro was arrested and charged with fraud, for taking ¥500,000,000 in exchange for a promise to sell to a Hyōgo -based investor the copyright to his songs, which he had already sold to somebody else (which
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1088-497: Was Avex Group Holdings according to reports). Reportedly, he planned to use the money to pay a portion of his ex-wife's alimony. He admitted the fraud at his trial in January 2009. In March 2009, Masato Matsuura , president of the Avex Group Holdings, recovered the losses for the plaintiff, paid him extra ¥100 million in compensation and a further ¥48 million in delay damages. Matsuura also stated that Komuro will work at Avex in
1122-483: Was encouraged to make new versions of the songs with a full band. In 1983 He contacted Utsunomiya and Kine about working together, and Speedway was abandoned in favor of this new group. They settled on the name TM Network. The name is commonly thought to stand for "Time Machine Network", supported by a statement by Tetsuya Komuro on a 1984 appearance on the show LiveG . However, on September 6, 2006, an episode of Trivia no Izumi claimed that TM actually stands for Tama ,
1156-467: Was reported that Keiko's divorce had been finalized. Julio Iglesias Jr. Julio Iglesias Jr. (born Julio José Iglesias Preysler ; 25 February 1973) is a Spanish singer-songwriter. Julio Iglesias Jr. was born Julio José Iglesias Preysler in Madrid , Spain , the son of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler . He is the younger brother of Chabeli Iglesias and
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