Kitaro

Japanese recording artist, composer, record producer and arranger Kitaro is noted for his electronic-instrumental music, and is universally associated and regarded as the founding architect of new age music. Kitaro's various sound collaborations and resonant, multi-textured compositions truly defy the constraints of any genre. Grammy Award-Winning (for Best New Age Album - Thinking of You (1999); with record 16 nominations in the same category) and Golden Globe Award-Winning (for the Heaven & Earth (1993)) Kitaro has achieved global acclaim over a more than three decade long career with a signature sound and a pioneering fusion of cultures, techniques and spheres of consciousness that are truly his own.