Yoko Wylegala: The best lesson in life is to never stop learning
Albert Einstein once said that the "important thing is not to stop questioning." A similar aphorism applies to composer and classical musician Yoko Hamabe Wylegala, whose life has been defined since the age of 7 by studying and questioning one subject or another. "My parents ...
Popular Zimbabwean musician Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi dies at 66
Zimbabwe's most successful and internationally renowned musician Oliver Mtukudzi died on Wednesday after suffering from diabetes, ending a career that spanned four decades and 67 albums. The 66-year-old singer, affectionately known as "Tuku," died at a local clinic on Wednesday afternoon, the Minister of Information ...
'Taka' Hirose: Looking and playing the part
A veteran of the U.K. music scene, Takashi "Taka" Hirose has been playing bass guitar in popular British indie-rock band Feeder for more than two decades. As chilled off stage as he is energetic on it, the 50-year-old Gifu Prefecture-native reminisces about his time ...
Koto player Azumi Yamano revels in space and atmosphere
"The koto is a plucked string instrument in which the sound and music really reflect the player."
'Monsieur' Kamayatsu, ex-member of '60s rock band Spiders, dies at 78
Rock musician Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu, who played with The Spiders at the height of the Group Sounds era in the 1960s, died of cancer at a Tokyo hospital on Wednesday, his office said Thursday. He was 78. Monsieur Kamayatsu joined the Spiders in the early ...
