Biography of Toriro Miki
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Songwriter / Composer
Jan. 28, 1914 Born in Tokyo. Name given at the birth, Hiroshi Shigeta.
1940 Graduated of Tokyo Teikoku University, Department of Law law subject.
Studied composing under Saburo Moroi, learned to play violin under Anna Ono, and piano under Sealey Watanabe.
Composed ' Minami no kaze ga kie-chatta ' , a song of war torn sites after the WWII. Appeared on ' Newspaper of the Song ', a radio program produced in 1946.
The morning after this radio show, he was featured by a morning news paper as a 'brilliant talented person' . From this point forward, his unique way of giving sharp satire to politics and society through his music show- 'Jyodan Ongaku (Joke Music) become very popular.
During this sensitive period time, (after WW II), his radio show continued for eight years while under intense pressure by CIE (Civil Information and Education Section of General Headquarters) and Japanese Government. The show was required to change its title 'Sunday Entertainment Show ' and 'Humor Theater'.
One time his radio show hit the highest record with a 80-90% audience rating. The Miki Toriro group was born from the program (formed by Bocha Kawai, Kiyoko Tange, Norihei Miki, Isamu Onoda ) and the Miki Toriro band was formed (George Kawaguchi, Mitsuru Ono, Shyoji Suzuki). The groups performed actively in the broadcast field and spreaded their action towards to theatric performance and film productions.
Released song titles during of the time period 'Boku wa tokkyu no kikanshi de (I am an engineer of the special express) ' , "Doku keshya irankane (Will you need the antidote? ) ' , " Inaka no bus (Bus of the country) ', 'Kaguya hime', 'Pokan Pokan' etc...
1951, Released the first commercial song in Japan, ' Boku wa amateur camera man (I am an amateur cameraman)' in conjunction with the first public broadcasting network opening.
Established the commercial song booming era with releasing 'wa-wa-wa wa ga mittsu ' ,' Akarui National ' , ' Kirin Lemon' and others.
1953, Performed Japanese version musical director of Disney movies , 'Dumbo' and 'Lady and the Tramp'.
1954, NHK's ' Humor theater' ended , started ' Min na de yarou jyodan ongaku (Made by Bunka broadcasting, sponsored by Bungei shyunjyu), reunified the 'Jyodan Ongaku (Joke Music) '.
Major songs after 1960' - Theme song of " Tetsujin 28 gou", " Tom & Jerry" and " Jungle Taitei"
Many works were left also in the field of a Japanese song.
At the age of 42, he was found to be a diabetic.
1969, founded a " Diabetic support group".
Following are the staff member of Toriro Group.
Many of the names listed here have become broadcasters.
Writers:
Kino Toru, Masahiko Nomi, Rokusuke Ei, Takuro Kanki, Akiyuki Nosaka
Composers:
Yoshiyuki Kozu, Taku Izumi, Jun Sakurai
Singers:
Toshie Kusunoki, Meiko Nakamura
Actors:
Tonbo Zushi, Osami Nabe, Tonpei Hidari
Musical awarded biography:
1956, Awarded by Minister of Education Prize
1961, Public Broadcasting award
1962, Shyoriki award, Art encouragement award
1986, Nihon Record Award- Special planning prize
1994, Oct. 7 Deceased.
The honorific in the sentence is abbreviated.