Aska (singer)

Aska
Born February 24, 1958

Aska, Ryo Aska or Ryō Asuka (飛鳥 涼 Asuka Ryō) (born Shigeaki Miyazaki (宮﨑 重明 Miyazaki Shigeaki) on February 24, 1958, Ono, now part of Onojō, Fukuoka) is a Japanese singer-songwriter.

Aska is best known for work as part of the music duo Chage and Aska. As a composer, he wrote most of the principal hit songs for the duo, such as "Morning Moon", "Love Song", "Say Yes", and "Meguriai". Over half of their released singles were written by him. He has also written for many singers and groups in addition to Chage and Aska. In particular, his songwriting for Hikaru Genji in the late 1980s produced some of his most notable works. He began a solo career in 1987, and was highly successful in the first half of the 1990s. His most well-known song as a solo singer is "Hajimari wa Itsumo Ame" (The Start Is Always Rain), which was a single from his second solo album. The song reached #2 on oricon and sold over 1,160,000 copies. Success of this song lead him to widespread popularity across East Asia. [1][2] [3] He was arrested on 17th May 2014 for possession of the illegal stimulant MDMA. On the 12th September, 2014 he was given a three-year jail sentence which was suspended for four years.

The origin of his name

Initially, it was thought that his name has come from Asuka Ryo, which is a Cartoon character in “devil” Gō Nagai wrote. However, ASKA denied this later. ASKA comes from “Asuka”. “Asuka” is the name of the radio DJ in Fukuoka,and woman, who ASKA was unrequited love in college was a big fan of DJ. The DJ had long hair, and he was very beautiful guy. So a lot of woman loved the DJ. At that time, the woman did not love ASKA.When he thought about his stage name, he used ASKA in order to combat the DJ. However, his love did not bear fruit. His friend plus the name of Ryo his name. At first, English notation was RYO ASUKA. However, peaple in British mistook pronunciation, so ASUKA changed ASKA. Later, unit name became Chage and Aska.[4]

Discography

Singles

Studio albums

Compilation album

Videography

Contributions for other artists

Songwriting

References

  1. ↑ "Ryo Aska Singer Songwriter". In.com. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  2. ↑ http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/05/19/aska-drug-use-answers-to-some-questions/
  3. ↑ http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140518_12.html
  4. ↑ Chage and Aska(2014, June 10). History. Retrieved:http://www.chage-aska.net/biography/history[July 17, 2014].

External Links

Shigeaki Miyazaki known as Aska