Kyōsuke Himuro

Himuro shaped the posture of Japanese rock as much as its sound. Boowy burned for seven years and broke up at full speed. Most careers end there. His grew: sixteen million records solo. What gets me is how little apology is in it, a man from Takasaki singing Kiss Me straight, and half the country trying to stand the way he stood.

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Name (English)

Kyōsuke Himuro

Name (Japanese)

氷室京介

Reading

ひむろ きょうすけ

Born

October 7, 1960 (age 65)

Origin

Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

singer-songwriter / composer / music arranger / record producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rat

Agency

BeatNix

Active years

1981 -

Works summary

Appearances

159 (1980–2020)

By year

1980: 1, 1984: 1, 1985: 3, 1986: 1, 1987: 3, 1988: 3, 1989: 6, 1990: 3, 1991: 3, 1992: 3, 1993: 1, 1994: 1, 1995: 2, 1996: 3, 1997: 8, 1998: 3, 1999: 2, 2000: 5, 2001: 4, 2003: 13, 2005: 2, 2006: 9, 2007: 2, 2008: 6, 2009: 10, 2010: 4, 2011: 5, 2012: 19, 2013: 6, 2014: 7, 2015: 3, 2016: 10, 2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 2, 2020: 1

Debut work

「光と影」

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://himuro.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/himuro_com/
• Xhttps://x.com/HIMURO_COM
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyosuke%20Himuro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B7%E5%AE%A4%E4%BA%AC%E4%BB%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932240

Tags

• Gunma Prefecture
• singer-songwriter
• composer
• music arranger

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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