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Oyakawa Haruka Releases First Album “Aya-Modoro, Tsichi nu Wakachura”
Ryukyu classical music artist, Oyakawa Haruka, released her first album! The album is titled “Aya-Modoro, Tsichi nu Wakachura”, and contains a total of 14 tracks. She’s one of a few graduates of the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts who have been really active in performing in and out of Okinawa. Haruka also happens to be…
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Musicians Oyakawa Haruka & Tanahara Kenta in “Toki no Suisaiga”
The long-running YouTube series “Toki no Suisaiga” and one of the most missed gems on the platform for Ryukyu culture finally, yes finally, released a couple of videos with English subtitles. The first video features popular Ryukyu classical musician Oyakawa Haruka (pictured above) performing the song “Nakarata Bushi (なからた節)”. Haruka has been on the series…
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Harry Seisho Nakasone
Harry Seisho Nakasone, a Honolulu resident who studied in Japan and became a master of classical Okinawan music, died March 19 in Honolulu. He was 99. Nakasone was a grand master of classical uta-sanshin, in which the artist sings and plays the three-string instrument that is Okinawa’s version of the shamisen. […] “He is well-respected…
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