# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ryo-kawasaki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:39:37.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ryo-kawasaki"
name: "Ryo Kawasaki"
slug: "ryo-kawasaki"
description: "Ryo Kawasaki  was a Japanese jazz fusion guitarist, composer and band leader, best known as one of the first musicians to develop and popularise the fusion genre and for helping to develop the guitar synthesizer in collaboration with Roland Corporation and Korg. His album Ryo Kawasaki and the Golden Dragon Live was one of the first all-digital recordings and he created the Kawasaki Synthesizer for the Commodore 64. During the 1960s, he played with various Japanese jazz groups and also formed his own bands. In the early 1970s, he moved to New York City, where he settled and worked with Gil Evans, Elvin Jones, Chico Hamilton, Ted Curson, Joanne Brackeen amongst others. In the mid-1980s, Kawasaki drifted out of performing music in favour of writing music software for computers. He also produced several techno dance singles, formed his own record company called Satellites Records, and later returned to jazz-fusion in 1991."
tagline: "Japanese jazz guitarist (1947-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ryo_Kawasaki_Dec-15%2C_2018_in_Zagreb%2C_Croatia_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-02-25"
deathDate: "2020-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.78232933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 922
platforms:
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    handle:    "ryo.kawasaki.589"
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    handle:    "Ryo Kawasaki"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    handle:    "RYO KAWASAKI GROUP - Topic"
    followers: 922
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump