Keyboardists · b. 1947

Stomu Yamash'ta

Japanese musician

Born: 15 March 1947
Kyoto
Country: Japan
Active: 1970–
Record labels: Island Records, Arista Records
Discography: 1 album

Biography

Stomu Yamash'ta is a jazz musician who plays keyboard instrument. Stomu Yamash'ta was born on 15 March 1947 in Kyoto. The music is usually filed under contemporary classical music. Record labels: Island Records and Arista Records.

Stomu Yamashta (or Yamash'ta), born Tsutomu Yamashita (山下勉, Yamashita Tsutomu; 15 March 1947), is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is best known for pioneering and popularising a fusion of traditional Japanese percussive music with Western progressive rock music in the 1960s and 1970s. In the latter part of the 1970s, he led the supergroup Go with Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze, and Michael Shrieve.

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