His death was announced on April 2, after his funeral was held, attended only by close relatives.
Ryuichi Sakamoto, a Japanese composer and founding member of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, has died at the age of 72. The BBC reported this.
The winner of many world awards died on March 28. In recent years, he fought cancer. He was first diagnosed with the disease in 2014.
Sakamoto is known to have started his career while studying at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer and arranger. His first major breakthrough came in 1978 as a co-founder of the Yellow Magic Orchestra.
As a composer of film scores, he received an Oscar, BAFTA, Grammy and two Golden Globe Awards. His most successful work as a film composer was The Last Emperor in 1987. He also starred in an epic film about the life of Puyi, the last emperor of China.
It was previously reported that one of the greatest saxophonists in jazz history, Wayne Shorter, has passed away at the age of 90.
A member of the voice of the country died of oncology
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