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06 Pop performers / "idol talent" (Japanese music)




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This article is from the NAKAJIMA Miyuki, Sakamotos, and Japanese music abroad FAQ, by TANAKA Tomoyuki tanaka@cs.indiana.edu with numerous contributions by others.

06 Pop performers / "idol talent" (Japanese music)

------ sakamoto kyuu
------ pink lady

------ Matsuda Seiko
she does a 1-minute cameo appearance in the 1998
summer movie "Armageddon". she's the airhead
tourist who says, "I want to go shopping!" in
the beginning.

------ virtual idol DATE Kyoko

http://jpop.hatch.co.jp/scripts/jsearch1.pl?keyword=date+kyoko

despite a lot of media coverage, this "Virtual Idol"
project didn't go very far.

http://www.etud.insa-tlse.fr/~mdumas/kyoko.html
[...]
Kyoko Date is the first 100% virtual star: the "Virtual
Idol". She has been created by engineers and designers
of the top Japanese model agency, HoriPro. [...]
She is made of 40,000 polygons, 10 people worked on her
face alone, and she fulfilled the aim of the DK-96
project. [...]

 

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