Kan Mikami

Person · Open Library

Born

1950

Works

4

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Kodomari, Aomori, Japan

Kan Mikami is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter, his music, heavily influenced by American blues, was popular in Japan in the 1970s. He re-wrote the lyric of the song "Yume wa Yoru Hiraku" for his cover version in 1972. Mikami also acted in cinema and is notable for collaborations with Shūji Terayama and his avant-garde theater Tenjō Sajiki

Known for

• The Way of the Siren2025
• The Setting Sun — Mokichi2022
• Aoi-chan Won't Let Me Do It2021
• Lunch at a Famous Building: Special — Master2021
• Lunch at a Famous Building — Master2020
• The German2018
• Hana-Dama: Phantom — Goro Yamashita2016
• Virgin2012
• Eclair — Hige no keisatsukan2011
• Box: The Hakamada Case — Elementary school teacher2010

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Japan

Active from

1950

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

9,096

Total plays

200,081

Kan Mikami (三上寛) takes much of his inspiration from the school of singer/songwriters and blues vocalists. From the rural district of Tsugaru, Mikami's parched voice and plaintive electric guitar (sometimes the only backing) reveals the true spirit of the folkish sad blues, even though he sings in Japanese. Of course, comparisons to Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf are just as far from the truth as Bertolt Brecht or Jacques Brel, but the guitarist weaves elements of all of them to create an undeniabl

via Last.fm · Kan Mikami

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

Japan

Place of birth

Kodomari

Occupation

singer-songwriter

Languages spoken

Japanese

Genre

traditional folk music

Instrument

voice

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