History Music / YukihiroTakahashi

* 1993 - ''Heart Of Hurt'' [[note]]Accoustic album where he covers previous songs[[/note]]

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Even though some of his lyrics were co-written by Chris Mosdell, Takahashi's English is spot-on.

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Saravah!'' and its 2018 rerecording ''Saravah Saravah!''

In his later years, his projects included Sketch Show (a duo he formed with Haruomi Hosono), METAFIVE (along with various pre-established Japanese artists, including Towa Tei and Keigo Oyamada) and Pupa (Electronica band with a similar concept). He occasionally took part in revivals of Sadistic Mika Band and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Takahashi eventually passed away from pneumonia in 2023 at the age of 70.

Out of the three members of YMO, Takahashi is the less remembered one (probably because of his tenure as a drummer) and yet he was just as active as his two bandmates, providing lead vocals on most of their songs as well as writing some of their biggest hits ("La Femme Chinoise", "Rydeen" and "Cue" just to name a few) while releasing solo albums at the same time. After YMO went on a hiatus in 1983, he kept his solo career consistant, releasing one album per year from the eighties to the nineties. He also founded side projets such as The Beatniks (with Keiichi Suzuki) and numerous foreign artists he collaborated with, notably [[{{Music/Japan}} Steve Jansen]] with whom he recorded an EP. Like his two YMO peers, he makes soundtracks for video game, films and anime (namely ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''). Outside of music, he was an occasional actor and appeared in some movies by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Yukihiro Takahashi (June 6th 1952 - January 14th 2023) was a Japanese singer-songwriter-producer who is best known internationally as a member of Music/YellowMagicOrchestra.

In his later years, his projects included Sketch Show (a duo he formed with Haruomi Hosono), METAFIVE (along with various pre-established Japanese artists, including Towa Tei and Keigo Oyamada) and Pupa (Electronica band with a similar concept). He occasionally took part in revivals of Sadistic Mika Band and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Takahashi eventually passed away from brain cancer in 2023 at the age of 70; he had been battling the disease for nearly three years.

Prior to being part of the technopop trio, Yukihiro made his music debut when he joined the prog-rock act Sadistic Mika Band as a drummer. The band changed lineups and became The Sadistics before Yukihiro decided to focus on a solo career. While releasing his first solo album ''Saravah'' in 1978, he was also established as a session player and frequent collaborator of Music/RyuichiSakamoto and Music/HaruomiHosono, which lead them to form Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Out of the three members of YMO, Takahashi is the less remembered one (probably because of his tenure as a drummer) and yet he was just as active as his two bandmates, providing lead vocals on most of their songs as well as writing some of their biggest hits ("La Femme Chinoise", "Rydeen" and "Cue" just to name a few) while releasing solo albums at the same time. After YMO went on a hiatus in 1983, he kept his solo career consistant, releasing one album per year from the eighties to the nineties. He also founded side projets such as The Beatniks (with Keiichi Suzuki) and numerous foreign artists he collaborated with, notably [[{{Music/Japan}} Steve Jansen]] with whom he recorded an EP. Like his two YMO peers, he makes soundtracks for video game, films and animes (namely ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''). Outside of music, he was an occasional actor and appeared in some movies by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

In his later years, his projects Sketch Show (a duo he formed with Haruomi Hosono), METAFIVE (along with various pre-established Japanese artists, including Towa Tei and Keigo Oyamada) and Pupa (Electronica band with a similar concept). He occasionally took part in revivals of Sadistic Mika Band and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Takahashi eventually passed away from brain cancer in 2023 at the age of 70; he had been battling the disease for nearly three years.

* BookEnds: His first studio album was ''Music/{{Saravah}}'' in 1978. His final studio album before his death was ''Saravah! Saravah!'', a re-recording of ''Saravah!'' for its 40th anniversary in 2018.

* CoverVersion: Prominently featured on ''Saravah!'' which contains 3 covers, where Yukihiro sings in Italian, French and English.

* InTheStyleOf: Some of Takahashi's songs in the ''Music/{{BGM}}'' era are direct homages to Music/{{Ultravox}}. "Cue" and "Ballet" from that album, and "Connection" from ''Neuromantic'', show this most clearly; in "Cue"'s case this was specifically acknowledged as being inspired by their song "Passionate Reply".

** The Beatniks is a duo he formed with Keiichi Suzuki (who was already know for being part of the band Moonriders)

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Even though some of his lyrics were co-written by Chris Mosdell, Yukihiro's English is spot-on.
** ''Tomorrow's Another Day'' has the track "Ripple" which has its last lyrics written in French by Pierre Barouh.

His recent projects include Sketch Show (a duo he formed with Haruomi Hosono), METAFIVE (along with various pre-established japanese artists, including Towa Tei and Keigo Oyamada) and Pupa (Electronica band with a similar concept). He occasionally took part in revivals of Sadistic Mika Band and Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Yukihiro Takahashi (born June 6th 1952) is a japanese singer-songwriter-producer who is best known internationally as a member of Music/YellowMagicOrchestra.

Out of the three members of YMO, Takahashi is the less remembered one (probably because of his tenure as a drummer) and yet he was just as active as his two bandmates, providing lead vocals on most of their songs as well as writing some of their biggest hits ("La Femme Chinoise", "Rydeen" and "Cue" just to name a few) while releasing solo albums at the same time. After YMO went on a hiatus in 1983, he kept his solo career consistant, releasing one album per year from the eighties to the nineties. He also founded side projets such as The Beatniks (with Keiichi Suzuki) and numerous foreign artists he collaborated with, notably [[{{Music/Japan}} Steve Jansen]] with whom he recorded an EP. Like his two YMO peers, he makes soundtracks for video game, films and animes (namely ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''). Outside of music, he is an occasional actor and appeared in some movies by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

[[folder:Studio albums]]

[[folder:Live Albums]]

** His French is also excellent on "Ripple" from ''Tomorrow's Another Day''.

* 1981 - ''Neuromantic''

** ''Saravah!'' is a tribute to European pop music (this is proven by the covers of "Volare" and "C'est Si Bon") which also dabbles into bossa-nova and proto-city pop.
** ''Murdered By The Music'' features ska among technopop tracks.

* 1980 - ''Murdered By The Music''

* InTheStyleOf...: Some of Takahashi's songs in the ''BGM'' era are direct homages to Music/Ultravox. "Cue" and "Ballet" from that album, and "Connection" from ''Neuromantic'', show this most clearly; in "Cue"'s case this was specifically acknowledged as being inspired by their song "Passionate Reply".

** ''Saravah!'' is a tribute to European pop music (this is proven by the covers of "Volare" and "C'est Si Bon") which also dabbles into bossa-nova and proto-City Pop.

** ''Heart Of Hurt'' is an acoustic album where he plays his earlier catalogue in a Folk style.
* RearrangeTheSong: He reinterpreted his previous song in an acoustic folk style on ''Heart Of Hurt'', while ''Saravah Saravah!'' is a complete rerecording of his debut album.
** "Drip Dry Eyes" from 1981's ''Neuromantic'' is a complete rearrangement of a song written by Takahashi and Chris Mosdell and performed by Sandii a year prior. While Sandii's version is sparse, synthetic cod reggae, Takahashi's version is lush synth-drenched city pop.

* CoverVersion: Prominently featured on ''Saravah!'' which contains 3 covers where Yukihiro sings in italian, french and english.

* GenreRoulette: Starting off his solo career with the Western Pop influenced ''Saravah!'' He quickly switched to technopop on the next albums and shifted to glitch-pop during the nineties.

** ''Saravah!'' is a tribute to european Pop music (this is proven by the covers of "Volare" and "C'est Si Bon") which also dabbles into bossa-nova and proto-City Pop.

** ''Heart Of Hurt'' is an accoustic album where he plays his earlier catalogue in a Folk style.
* RearrangeTheSong: He reinterpetated his previous song in an accoustic folk style on ''Heart Of Hurt'' while ''Saravah Saravah!'' is a complete rerecording of his debut album.

** Pupa is an electronica band involving various japanese artists who are also singers. It features Takahashi along with Tomohiko Gondo, Ren Takada, Tomoyo Harada, Hiroshi Takano and Hirohisa Horie.
* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Even though some of his lyrics were co-written by Chris Mosdell, Yukihiro's english is spot-on.
** His french is also excellent on "Ripple" from ''Tomorrow's Another Day''.

* 1978 - ''{{Music/Saravah!}}''

* 1978 - ''Saravah!''

Out of the three members of YMO, Takahashi is the less remembered one (probably because of his tenure as a drummer) and yet he was just as active as his two bandmates, providing lead vocals on most of their songs as well as writing some of their biggest hits ("La Femme Chinoise", "Rydeen" and "Cue" just to name a few) while releasing solo albums at the same time. After YMO went on a hiatus in 1983, he kept his solo career consistant, releasing one album per year from the eighties to the nineties. He also founded side projets such as The Beatniks (with Keiichi Suzuki) and numerous foreign artists he collaborated with, notably [[{{Music/Japan}} Steve Jansen]] with whom he recorded an EP. Like his two YMO peers, he made soundtracks for video game, films and animes (namely ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''). Outside of music, he was an occasional actor and appeared in some movies by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

* FaceOnTheCover: Very rarely does he not show his face on an album's cover art.

Out of the three members of YMO, Takahashi is the less remembered one (probably because of his tenure as a drummer) and yet he was just as active as his two bandmates, providing lead vocals on most of their songs as well as writing some of their biggest hits ("La Femme Chinoise", "Rydeen" and "Cue" just to name a few) while releasing solo albums at the same time. After YMO went on a hiatus in 1983, he kept his solo career consistant, releasing one album per year from the eighties to the nineties. He also founded side projets such as The Beatniks (with Keiichi Suzuki) and numerous foreign artists he collaborated with, notably [[{{Music/Japan}} Steve Jansen]] with whom he recorded an EP. Like his two YMO peers, he made soundtracks for video game, films and animes (namely ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'') Outside of music, he was an occasional actor and appeared in some movies by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Out of the three members of YMO, Takahashi is the less remembered one (probably because of his tenure as a drummer) and yet he was just as active as his two bandmates, providing lead vocals on most of their songs as well as writing some of their biggest hits ("La Femme Chinoise", "Rydeen" and "Cue" just to name a few) while releasing solo albums at the same time. After YMO went on a hiatus in 1983, he kept his solo career consistant, releasing one album per year from the eighties to the nineties. He also founded side projets such as The Beatniks (with Keiichi Suzuki) and numerous foreign artists he collaborated with, notably Steve Jansen with whom he recorded an EP. Like his two YMO peers, he made soundtracks for video game, films and animes (namely ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'') Outside of music, he was an occasional actor and appeared in some movies by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

* RearrangeTheSong: ''Saravah Saravah!'' is a complete rerecording of his debut album.

* 1985 - ''Poisson D'Avril'' [[note:Movie soundtrack]]

* 1987 - ''La Pensée'' [[note:With Yohji Yamamoto]]

* 1991 - ''The Adventure Of Gaku'' [[note:Movie soundtrack]]

* 1992 - ''Umi • Sora • Sango No Litsutae'' [[note:Movie soundtrack]]
* 1993 - ''Heart Of Hurt'' [[note:Accoustic album where he covers previous songs]]

* 2018 - ''Saravah Saravah!'' [[note:Rerecording of his debut album]]