Daisuke Asakura

A disciple of Japanese über-producer Tetsuya Komuro and a successful musician in his own right, Daisuke Asakura came a long way from being the heir to a family plumbing business. His parents were no strangers to art, and he was given piano lessons as a kid, picking up the Yamaha synthesizer at age ten. After graduating from high school, Asakura got a job at Yamaha, and was featured in the instruction video for one of the synthesizer models; by 1987 he was spotted by Komuro and began working with his band TMN (aka TM Network), first as a technician and then as a touring musicia...