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The Boom is the Japanese rock band. Its members are Miyazawa Kazusi
(vocals), Kobayashi Koji (guitar), Yamakawa Kousei (bass guitar), and
Tochigi Takao (drums).
They came out at 1989. Vocalist Miyazawa Kazusi who wrote all the
lyrics and compose all the songs on The Boom, was affected by the Okinawa
musics. He tried to make some Okinawa songs. "Shima-uta" is the song which
uses beautiful Okinawa scales. A single CD "Shima-uta" was released in
1993, and it sold well and many people listened to this CD. Finally, the
total sales of the CD "Shima-uta", was about 1.5 million and this song
made this band to become a popular group. At December 31th 1993, The Boom
participated to the "Kouhaku-utagasen". This is kind of a music show that
only popular musicians can participate.
After they released "Shima-uta", this group wrote lots of good songs
like "Kaze-ni Naritai", "Kaero-kana", and "Tsukisaemo-nemuruyoru".
Miyazawa Kazusi tried to write more Okinawa songs, and this group made a
album that included just only Okinawa Songs. He sang some Okinawa folk
songs and he respected the Okinawa folk songs.
The vocalist of this group, "Miyazawa Kazusi" sometimes made solo
albums. He wrote some songs that has peculiar atmosphere. Also he
sometimes compose songs to the other musicians. For example, there're
"Akiko Yano", "Kyoko Koizumi", and "Rimi Natsukawa". Miyazawa Kazusi's
hometown is not Okinawa, but many people have misunderstanding that his
hometown is Okinawa.
Many people sing the song "Shima-uta", and also the oversea musicians
sing this song. A good example is that recently many people in Argentina
bought the "Shima-uta" CD. A man who is singing this song is a popular
comedian in Argentina. He didn't translate the lyrics to their own
language. Of course the people in Argentina don't what he's saying, but
many people in Argentina have a good vibration to this song. The Boom and
this comedian play with each other at the World Cup 2002.
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