Yoshida Brothers
1,169,765 plays (53,502 listeners)
The Yoshida Brothers [aka 吉田兄弟 ] were born and raised in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido. Each picked up the shamisen at the tender age of five and began studying tsugaru shamisen under Takashi Sasaki I in 1990. After sweeping prizes at national Tsugaru shamisen conventions, the brothers made their major debut in 1999. The debut album sold over 100,000 copies, an extraordinary figure for a traditional folk music release. More…
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
- Tags:
- japanese, instrumental, folk, shamisen, traditional japanese music
- Similar to:
- 吉田兄弟, Hiromitsu Agatsuma, Rin', 鼓童, Jia Peng Fang
