Keiichi Suzuki

Active since the early 1970s, Keiichi Suzuki is a pioneer of Japanese-language rock as well as video game music. He co-founded the short-lived folk-rock band Hachimitsupai in 1971 before initiating the prolific, influential art-pop group the Moonriders in 1975. Additionally, Suzuki formed a new wave duo called the Beatniks with Yellow Magic Orchestra's Yukihiro Takahashi in the early '80s. By the end of the decade, Suzuki began composing music for video games, beginning with the groundbreaking Mother (with Hirokazu Tanaka) in 1989. Following his 1991 album Suzuki White Report,...