V-Origin 8 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hello all, I am in urgent need of finding some English speaking or English educated Japanese singers or musicians to me who has been preferably educated in the West. Thank you very much for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaishaix 2,737 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I speak and read english, and I still couldn't understand your question :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disbanded 130 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Utada Hikaru? I'm not sure I understand the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Origin 8 Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hi all, my apologies for not clarifying my questions. There are some Caucasian friends of mine who want to establish music and movie deals with established popular Japanese media stars who are actresses, actors, musicians, singers or any other mainstream media celebrities who have a Native Fluency in both English and Japanese languages. Someone like Mayuko Kitagawa comes to mind who are born and bred in New York, USA but my Caucasian friends need to find more Native English-Speaking Japanese celebrities to work with them. All my Caucasian friends are multi-billionaires and more. So Please Help Me Out Here. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starsocks 7,986 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 There are some Caucasian friends of mine who want to establish music and movie deals with established popular Japanese media stars who are actresses, actors, musicians, singers or any other mainstream media celebrities who have a Native Fluency in both English and Japanese languages. All my Caucasian friends are multi-billionaires and more. So Please Help Me Out Here. Thanks. Most Japanese singers/actors/etc already have record deals or are signed to an agent. Your friends will need to go directly to them for any business enquires. If they manage to do that successfully, language shouldn't even be a concern anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AegyoInTheDark 30 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hi all, my apologies for not clarifying my questions. There are some Caucasian friends of mine who want to establish music and movie deals with established popular Japanese media stars who are actresses, actors, musicians, singers or any other mainstream media celebrities who have a Native Fluency in both English and Japanese languages. Someone like Mayuko Kitagawa comes to mind who are born and bred in New York, USA but my Caucasian friends need to find more Native English-Speaking Japanese celebrities to work with them. All my Caucasian friends are multi-billionaires and more. So Please Help Me Out Here. Thanks. MIYAVI (he's a musician and also great actor, see UNBROKEN by Universal pictures) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyavi Kiko Mizuhara https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiko_Mizuhara Masato Hayakawa (he's the vocalist of Coldrain) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldrain Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Shinoda Steve Aoki (well, we all know him) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Aoki That's all i can think of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Origin 8 Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 Most Japanese singers/actors/etc already have record deals or are signed to an agent. Your friends will need to go directly to them for any business enquires. If they manage to do that successfully, language shouldn't even be a concern anyway. Hi choi, thanks for replying. My friends have told me they are going to approach Mayuko's agencies, Avex and Sony Music tomorrow. Cos I am new to Japan and my friends are new to Japan as well. Do you think it is a guarantee that huge international music companies like Avex and Sony Music have english sales or english PR or english marketing personnel? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Origin 8 Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 MIYAVI (he's a musician and also great actor, see UNBROKEN by Universal pictures) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyavi Kiko Mizuhara https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiko_Mizuhara Masato Hayakawa (he's the vocalist of Coldrain) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldrain Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Shinoda Steve Aoki (well, we all know him) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Aoki That's all i can think of Hello, thanks for your replies. Do you know of any heavy-weight, super popular Japanese celebrities like ayumi hamasaki or namie amuro's levels of popularities who can speak English in the native fluency? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AegyoInTheDark 30 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Oh yeah, also Rinko Kikuchi and Devon Aoki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AegyoInTheDark 30 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hello, thanks for your replies. Do you know of any heavy-weight, super popular Japanese celebrities like ayumi hamasaki or namie amuro's levels of popularities who can speak English in the native fluency? Cheers. Then it must be Utada Hikaru Kiko Mizuhara is super popular though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiaraewiwiarae 6,637 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Jin Akanishi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AegyoInTheDark 30 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hi choi, thanks for replying. My friends have told me they are going to approach Mayuko's agencies, Avex and Sony Music tomorrow. Cos I am new to Japan and my friends are new to Japan as well. Do you think it is a guarantee that huge international music companies like Avex and Sony Music have english sales or english PR or english marketing personnel? Thanks. Try Amuse inc. They are one of the biggest talent agency in Japan, and they are the most international friendly (Babymetal, One Ok Rock, Perfume, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Origin 8 Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 Try Amuse inc. They are one of the biggest talent agency in Japan, and they are the most international friendly (Babymetal, One Ok Rock, Perfume, etc.) Thank you for your reply. Why would you say Amuse Inc is most international friendly. Is it because their talents sing or act in English more than any other Talent agencies? I am not that knowledgeable about J-Pop or Japanese media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kovian 139 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Thank you for your reply. Why would you say Amuse Inc is most international friendly. Is it because their talents sing or act in English more than any other Talent agencies? I am not that knowledgeable about J-Pop or Japanese media. Amuse inc is expending their business to oversea market, with the success of one ok rock, babymetal and perfume in oversea market. just last year they looking for talent and staff that are bilingual. you can check their website for more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiaraewiwiarae 6,637 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Ah, but Yamapi speaks English pretty well. He wasn't educated overseas though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudko 369 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hi all, my apologies for not clarifying my questions. There are some Caucasian friends of mine who want to establish music and movie deals with established popular Japanese media stars who are actresses, actors, musicians, singers or any other mainstream media celebrities who have a Native Fluency in both English and Japanese languages. Someone like Mayuko Kitagawa comes to mind who are born and bred in New York, USA but my Caucasian friends need to find more Native English-Speaking Japanese celebrities to work with them. All my Caucasian friends are multi-billionaires and more. So Please Help Me Out Here. Thanks. Others have already said Amuse but i will re-iterate that and say that they also have done TV and film projects in the West and have more in the works like for example the BABYMETAL animated series. They also have lots of talent fluent in English and holding auditions to find more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blank_stare 2,217 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I feel like you're trolling, but I'll entertain you. Other's have said Amuse already and their artists under its company. There's also Yamapi, Akanishi Jin, Keito Okamoto from Johnny's Entertainment. There's Dean Fujioka, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Osamu Mukai, Kei Hosogai, Jun Hasegawa, Yuya Yamashita, Yuri Furukawa (MC of Mischievous Kiss Japan Version), Mackenyu There's also Blasians in Exile's company LDH. Names are Mendy Sakaguchi, Ely and Likiya(brothers), and Nesmith. But its better if I just give you a video. And you'll just pick the ones you want to work with. The names of the people are in the description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qug7X8jDKVw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sakurahanabira 6,634 Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Hello, thanks for your replies. Do you know of any heavy-weight, super popular Japanese celebrities like ayumi hamasaki or namie amuro's levels of popularities who can speak English in the native fluency? Cheers. Utada Hikaru. She is Japanese-American and born/raised in New York. (I'm surprised you don't know her considering she's super popular and has sung for the Kingdom Hearts video games) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Origin 8 Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 Hello All, Thank you all for all your replies. It was an exhausting day for me and my billionaire buddies today. We wanted to rent cars but the traffic was too heavy and we couldn't find any car rental agents who can rent cars to us who speak english anyway so we have to slog by foot to visit various agencies in Tokyo. We visited Amuse and to our great disappointments, the so-called most international-friendly musician agencies said that they have no English-Speaking staff who can do sales business with us. We originally wanted to hire interpreters but no Japanese-English interpreters are around for us to be hired. We had many premonitions and intuitions and hunches and rumours that the Japanese music industries are not keen on expanding their music industries overseas. Otherwise, wouldn't they have English-speaking sales staff on call? Maybe the Japanese music industries are much more xenophobic than the Korean music industries which explain why K-Pop has outshined J-Pop in the international arena for the last 10 years or so? Just a disappointing, tiring day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AegyoInTheDark 30 Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 We had many premonitions and intuitions and hunches and rumours that the Japanese music industries are not keen on expanding their music industries overseas. Maybe the Japanese music industries are much more xenophobic than the Korean music industries which explain why K-Pop has outshined J-Pop in the international arena for the last 10 years or so? Just a disappointing, tiring day. What a troll Deluded K-pop fans, as always. Anyway, everyone knows that people don't even have to go to Japan to find Amuse. they have branches in USA and europe http://www.amusegroupusa.com and they have fucking contract with Warner Bros, they don't need your "millionaire buddy" lol https://www.warnerbros.com/studio/news/brc-baby-metal All their international artists are MUCH BIGGER than any kpop group in US/europe. for example One Ok Rock is now under big american label, FBR (with artist such as Twenty One Pilots, Panic! at The Disco, Paramore, All Time Low, etc.) And Babymetal, simply the biggest Asian group overseas right now and that's just ONE agency, while KPOP is still unheard and obscure outside asia. well except that weird fat guy singing Gangnam Style lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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