Tetsuya Komuro

Tetsuya Komuro 小室 哲哉 Komuro Tetsuya born November 27 1958 is a Japanese musician songwriter and record producer He is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and introduced contemporary electronic dance music to the Japanese mainstream He was also a former owner of the disco Velfarre in Roppongi Tokyo In the Oricon singles chart of April 1996 he monopolized all the top 5 positions as the songwriter and producer a world record In 1995 he dominated all top 3 positions of the copyright distribution rankings for the JASRAC Award a record in Japans music history At his peak as a record producer the artists he predominantly produced for came to be known as TK Family and at one time included Namie Amuro hitomi TRF Tomomi Kahara and Ami Suzuki amongst others As of 2008 his records had sold more than 170 million copies primarily in Japan Total sales of the singles he has written exceed 42 million copies making him the fourth bestselling lyricist in Japan