Yasuyuki Okamura

Websitehttp://okamurayasuyuki.info/info/profile/ Twitterhttps://twitter.com/yasuyukiinfo/ Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/E5B2A1E69D91E99D96E5B9B8E585ACE5BC8FE382B5E382A4E38388221960977820152/ YouTubehttps://www..com/user/yasuyukiINFO Birthplace: Kobe Hyogo Prefecture Japan Introduction: Yasuyuki Okamura alternatively known by his pen name Eitarou Isono is a Japanese singersongwriter model and music producer who is active in the Japanese music market. He began his professional career in 1985 and is internationally known for the City Hunter 2https://anilist.co/anime/1471/CityHunter2 ending theme Super Girlhttps://anidb.net/song/30791 and for the Space Dandyhttps://anilist.co/anime/20057/SpaceDandy opening theme Viva Namidahttps://anidb.net/song/64362. Biography: Yasuyuki was born in Kobe Hyogo Prefecture Japan in 1965 he is the oldest of two children. His father worked for Air France and as a result his family moved frequently throughout Japan resulting in him rotating between seven elementary schools and junior high schools. He attended Niigata Higashi High School and formed his first band there but dropped out in the 11th grade to pursue a musical career while working parttime at the nightclub Hacoban. after sending out numerous demo tapes and doing composing work for other artists he was finally signed by Epic Sony in 1986. Yasuyuki was highly successful in the late 1980s and the early 1990s first promoted to the world as a teen idol. He also claimed that during this time he was most inspired by the singers Seiko Matsudahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeikoMatsuda and Princehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princemusician. He starred in the film Peach Ill Do Anything For You Peach alongside Kahori Fujii and Kazuhiko Kanayama. In 1996 he fell back from the media and performing in general and started to focus more on producing other artists including Meg and Chara. Yasuyuki was arrested in 2003 for possession of stimulant drugs but released after pleading that the drugs were a necessary medicine. His record contract with Epic Sony was terminated by the company and he was later signed by Universal. In April 2005 he was arrested again but this time for attempting to use cocaine in a Shibuya record store bathroom and for this he was sentenced to two years in prison. When returning in 2007 he started a comeback visually similar to his 1980s look but was arrested again on February 5 2008 for possession of crystal meth. He was sentenced to another two years in prison and he then proceeded to return live in Tokyo in 2010. He began releasing demos on his official Myspace page back then. In 2011 Yasuyuki begun an official tour again and released a twopart self cover album. Etiquette Pink and Etiquette Purple. He returned to producing other artists and touring and begun to speak openly about becoming fully sober. In 2013 he released his first single in six years titled Viva Namidahttps://anidb.net/song/64362 which was revealed to become the opening theme to the Shinichiro Watanabes Space Dandyhttps://anilist.co/anime/20057/SpaceDandy/staff. In the music video for this single an anime version of Yasuyuki dances and sings along with the Space Dandy cast. In 2014 he toured Japan. In 2017 he alongside TeddyLoidhttps://anilist.co/staff/130673/TeddyLoid Kenshi Yonezuhttps://anilist.co/staff/126835/KenshiYonezu and DAOKOhttps://anilist.co/staff/123235/DAOKO released a 14 track album titled Thank You Bluehttps://anidb.net/collection/11407 featuring the ending theme song from Takayanagi Shigehitohttps://anilist.co/staff/105553s directed Kekkai Sensen Beyondhttps://anilist.co/anime/97886/KekkaiSensenBEYOND/ titled Step Up Lovehttps://anidb.net/song/93942. Source: en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YasuyukiOkamura