One of the most famous stars of the J-POP world is in hot water. Music producer Tetsuya Komuro, creator of most of the top musical acts of the 1990s, was arrested today over contract fraud after he sold the rights to many songs he’d written but didn’t actually own. After a successful musical career with his band TM Network in the 80s, he became a music producer, using his eye for talent to discover and promote many of the biggest names of the day, like Amuro Namie, TRF, Ami Suzuki, Ryoko Shinohara, and Hitomi. These artists were collectively known as the Komuro Family, and they set the pace for music in Japan for years, earning TK (as he’s called) a spot near the official listing of top earners in the music world. Komuro may have been a brilliant music producer, but his English skills aren’t that hot, and he’s reponsible for coining some of the goofiest song lyrics of the past 20 years, including GET WILD AND TOUGH, BODY FEELS EXIT, EZ DO DANCE, CRAZY GONNA CRAZY and so on. We sure hope he “get chance and luck” and is able to get out of his present situation soon.
