Tetsuya Komuro

Tetsuya Komuro (小室 哲哉 Komuro Tetsuya?), also known as TK, is a Japanese keyboardist, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music producer born on November 27, 1958 in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan.

Tetsuya Komuro has performed live with Duran Duran. He has also recorded tracks with Warren Cuccurullo and Saffron Le Bon.

Biography
Komuro is recognized as being the most successful producer in Japanese music history and introduced dance music to the Japanese mainstream.

He started his career as a keyboardist for Speedway in 1979. Six years later in 1985, Komuro produced his first solo work for the soundtrack of the anime Vampire Hunter D.

As a solo singer, Komuro released singles "Running to Horizon" and "Gravity of Love" in 1989. "Running to Horizon" topped the Oricon charts.

By the early 1990s, Komuro was spending much of his time writing songs for and producing many other musicians and bands. He was also an early pioneer of dance music in Japan, and came to stardom in the 1990s as producer with a long string of hits with artists such as TRF (TK Rave Factory), Tomomi Kahala, Namie Amuro, Ami Suzuki, hitomi, Ryoko Shinohara and H Jungle with t.

His Duran Duran connection include performing during The Big Live Thing Tour at the Tokyo show, playing a portable keyboard on "Get It On (Bang a Gong)".

Komuro's 1989-90 tour featured Warren Cuccurullo on guitar and Sterling Campbell on drums. Both musicians were connected with Duran Duran at the time. Warren Cuccurullo also performed on his album Digitalian Is Eating Breakfast album.

In 2013, Digitalian Is Eating Breakfast 3 (DEBF3) was released. This album was co-produced by Nick Wood and features Saffron Le Bon, daughter of Simon and Yasmin Le Bon.