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尾崎豊

(Yutaka Ozaki)

The late, legendary Japanese rock artist Yutaka Ozaki (尾崎豊, Ozaki Yutaka) was on born 29 November 1965 in Tokyo and rose to fame in the 1980s, gaining anti-hero status among the country's youth for his protest songs of angst and rebellion. He began playing the piano in 1975 and first performed live in 1978 at his school's cultural festival. He signed with CBS Sony five years later and kicked off his professional career in 1983, scoring his first hit single that year while he was still at high school, "Jūgo no Yoru" (15の夜, "A night at Fifteen"), and its follow-up Seventeen's Map ...