Tatsurō Yamashita (山下 達郎, Yamashita Tatsurō, born February 4, 1953), occasionally referred to as Tatsu Yamashita[2] or Tats Yamashita,[3] is a Japanese singer-songwriter and record producer, who is known for pioneering the city pop style of music.[4][5][6]
His most well-known song is "Christmas Eve", a best-selling song released in Japan in the 1980s. It has appeared on the Japanese charts for over 35 consecutive years.[7][8][9][10]
He is known for his collaborations with his wife Mariya Takeuchi on many songs, including "Plastic Love",[11] and the American songwriter Alan O'Day, with whom he co-wrote the songs "Your Eyes", "Magic Ways", "Love Can Go the Distance", and "Fragile".[12] He is sometimes called the "king" of city pop.[13][14][15]
Yamashita is considered a major contributor to Japanese music and is ranked by HMV Japan as the sixth among the top 100 Japanese Artists.[15][16][17]
Career
Yamashita was a member of the band Sugar Babe[18] with musicians Taeko Onuki and Kunio Muramatsu, who released their only album Songs in 1975.[19][1] After the group disbanded in 1976, Yamashita signed to RCA and launched his solo career, releasing the album Circus Town the same year. Also in 1976, he teamed up with Eiichi Ohtaki, the producer of Sugar Babe,[20] and Sugar Babe member Ginji Ito to release Niagara Triangle Vol. 1 which was cited by MTV as one of the finest collaborative efforts of that period.[21] His 1979 award-winning album Moonglow gained only moderate success,[22] but his 1980 song Ride on Time reached No. 3 on the Japanese Oricon chart and the album of the same name topped the chart subsequently,[23][24][16] propelling him to stardom.[1]
Tatsuro's music has been regarded as a symbol of Japanese outdoor music, as represented by Ride on Time and For You in the early 1980s.[25][26][27]
In 2011, Yamashita's newly-released album Ray of Hope topped the weekly Oricon Albums Chart, making him the fourth singer to have topped the chart at least once per decade for four decades running.[28][29]
He has been called a "sound craftsman" because of his commitment to music-making.[30][31] A mutli-faceted musician, some of his songs are recorded entirely by himself, including vocal backup, guitar arrangement, synthesizer, and percussion. His music is heavily acoustic, but also demonstrates a wide range of knowledge about analog and digital recording, and latest musical production technology, including computer programming.
"Christmas Eve", one of Yamashita's best-known songs in Japan and the best-selling Japanese single of the 1980s,[7][8][9] first appeared on his 1983 album Melodies. It topped the charts in 1990 and has since ranked in the top 100 on the Japanese charts every Christmas season. The song was most famously a commercial song for JR Central's "Xmas Express."[32] It has sold nearly 2 million copies since its release and continues to be sold in small quantities as a limited edition every Christmas season. The English-version of the song, with lyrics by Alan O'Day, was also recorded by Yamashita and has been covered by artists such as Pentatonix, the Commodores, All-4-One, and Idina Menzel.
As a solo artist, Yamashita has released 13 original studio albums, five cover albums, two live albums, multiple compilations, and over 50 singles. He is the most commercially successful Japanese male solo recording artist in the history of the Japanese album chart, selling approximately 9 million albums in total.[33][34] He has also composed for films and television commercials, and worked on records by other artists. Yamashita frequently collaborated with Alan O'Day, who wrote the English lyrics for some of his most popular songs, such as “Christmas Eve”. He has also collaborated with his wife Mariya Takeuchi, whom he married in 1982. They have one daughter.[35]
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^Ride on Time (album) (LP front cover). Tatsuro Yamashita. BMGJapan. 1980.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^Big Wave (Tatsuro Yamashita album) (LP sleevenotes). Tatsuro Yamashita. Warner/Moon Records. 1984.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^オリコン・ヒットチャート Ｎｏ．１ＡＬＢＵＭ １９８０－１９８９ - [List of the number-one on the Japanese Weekly LP Chart from 1980 to 1989] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on May 4, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2009.
^""「職人でいる覚悟」山下達郎が語る仕事-2 - 朝日求人ウェブ". 朝日新聞デジタル (朝日新聞社)" ["Work that Tatsuro Yamashita talks about," prepared to be a craftsman "-2-Asahi Shimbun Web". Asahi Shimbun Digital (Asahi Shimbun)] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 11, 2014. Retrieved August 12, 2021..
^"槇原敬之、井上陽水抜く！アルバム総売上枚数男性ソロ歴代1位に！" [Noriyuki Makihara become the best-selling male solo artist on the Oricon albums chart, defeating Yosui Inoue]. March 10, 2006. Retrieved May 9, 2009.
^"音楽プロデューサー松尾潔氏がジャニーズ〝性加害〟言及で契約終了 山下達郎も同意" [Record Producer Kiyoshi Matsuo's contract with Johnny's was terminated due to references to "sexual assault," and Tatsuro Yamashita agreed.]. Tokyo Sports Web (in Japanese). Tokyo Sports. July 1, 2023. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
^Kurosaki, Satoshi (July 2, 2023). "ジャニーズ批判で事務所クビ、山下達郎氏に飛び火のワケ" [Why a record producer was fired from his office for criticizing Johnny's, and why Tatsuro Yamashita was involved in the incident.]. Dairy Cyzo (in Japanese). Cyzo [ja]. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
^"検索結果-ORICON STYLE アーティスト/CD検索 シュガー・ベイブ" [Searching results albums by Sugar Babe (available only 1989 to present)]. oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Original confidence. Retrieved May 20, 2009.
^"検索結果-ORICON STYLE アーティスト/CD検索 山下達郎，伊藤銀次，大瀧詠一" [Searching results albums by Tatsuro Yamashita, Ginji Ito, Eiichi Otaki (available only 1989 to present)]. oricon.co.jp (in Japanese). Original confidence. Retrieved May 20, 2009.
^"Tatsuro Yamashita". Yamachan Land (Japan's charts archives) – Singles Chart Daijiten – (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
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