Originally Posted by
Brad to the Bone
Count me as a fan. I've got five Kiki Band CDs (plus a few older Umezu albums dating back to the early 1980s) and saw them live a couple of years ago.
Pretty sure Umezu is his last/family name; one of his older projects was the Dr. Umezu Band for example. But tradition in Japan and many other eastern countries is to put the family name first and then given name, so sometimes it can be hard for us westerners to tell. I'm still not entirely sure about Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, for example, which is even more difficult because Nguyen is the most common surname in Vietnam (38% of the population!) and Le is the third most common surname (10% of the population).
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