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Kitaro

Napkin Terrorizer member

Japan

Kitaro is credited on 853 releases across 148 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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853

Pressings credited

148

Albums

6

Decades active

42

In collections

Biography

Masanori Takahashi (高橋 正則, Takahashi Masanori; born February 4, 1953), professionally known as Kitarō (喜多郎), is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic-instrumental music, and is often associated with and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of new-age music. He won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for Thinking of You (1999), with a record 16 nominations in the same category. He received a Golden Globe Award for the original score to Heaven & Earth (1993).

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Credited work

853 releases · 148 albums · active 1978–2023

  • Performance · 2,770
  • Other credits · 595
  • Engineering · 469
  • Production · 180
  • Mastering · 2

Studios: Sound Design Studio, Tokyo · Hitokuchizaka Studio · Kamakura Studio · Kitaro Nagano Yasaka Atelier

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