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Genichi Kawakami
Genichi Kawakami is credited on 250 releases across 96 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1973–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
250
Pressings credited
96
Albums
6
Decades active
5
In collections
Biography
Genichi Kawakami (川上 源一, Kawakami Gen'ichi; January 30, 1912 – May 25, 2002) was the president of the Yamaha Corporation from 1950 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 1983. He is often credited with the international success of Yamaha and was also widely influential as a community music educator. Born in Hamakita, Kawakami was a graduate of Takachiho College of Commerce. He started working for Yamaha in 1937, where his father, Kaichi Kawakami had been the president since 1927. Kawakami succeeded his father and introduced motorcycle production to Yamaha (Yamaha Motor Corporation). Retired in 1976, he wrote several books on music and founded the largest and most popular system of community music schools in the world. He died in Hamamatsu at the age of 90 of natural causes. Kawakami was married to Tamiko and had a son and a daughter.
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Credited work
250 releases · 96 albums · active 1973–2023
- Production · 235
- Other credits · 19
Studios: Epicurus Studio · Hitokuchizaka Studio · Sound Inn Studio · Take One Studio, Tokyo
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Yuko Ishikawa
- Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi
- Miho Morikawa
- Chage & Asuka
- Junko Yagami
- Mai Yamane
- Various
- Rowena Cortes
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