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Susan

There are at least two Susans. 1. Susan (born Susan Nozaki) was a pop singer who recorded in Japan in the early 1980s. She is half-American and half-Japanese. Her music is technopop in style, mainly featuring synthesisers and drum machines. Her records were released by CBS in the UK, though no single ever reached the top 40. In Japan, Epic Sony released her music. She was known to collaborate with various members of Yellow Magic Orchestra and other Japanese producers of the time such as Kazuhiko Katoh, Hajime Tachibana and Keiichi Suzuki.

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X JAPAN

X (later changed to X JAPAN in 1992 to avoid confusion with the American punk band X) is arguably one of the most influential bands in the history of the Japanese music scene. Formed by childhood friends YOSHIKI and Toshi in 1982 at Chiba, Japan, X was originally founded to play high energy rock music. Besides being one of the first Japanese acts to achieve mainstream success while on an independent label, the group is widely credited for pioneering the visual kei movement. Their early music was speed metal, but later on they acquired a more symphonic metal sound.

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Romans

There is more than one artist with this name. 1) ROMANS, still new on the scene, is already making an impact with their self-released debut "All Those Wrists." While the chaotic speed of Converge, heavy ambiance of Isis, space-rock of Failure and Cave In, and the balls-out rock of Queens of The Stone Age can be heard on "All Those Wrists." romans choose to play without limitations. 2)ROMANS (pronounced "romance") was a one-shot Hello! Project group that released one single.

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f9

F9, also known as Kiyono (きよの), is an utaite whose voice is described to have a "crystal clear" quality to it, along with the ability to hit high notes and maintain control. She first debuted under the name Kiyono in the summer of 2007, and mostly sang covers of Sound Horizon songs. On March 31, 2008, she uploaded a cover of minato's Soar. The video quickly rose to the #1 spot in the music rankings (there was no "utattemita" category back then), and minato himself wrote a blog post detailing how he was overwhelmed with feeling by F9's voice.

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北出菜奈

Nana Kitade (北出 菜奈, born May 2, 1987 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She is particularly famous for dressing and designing Gothic Lolita fashion, something that many of her fans have in common with her. Many of her songs were used as anime, TV shows, doramas and movie opening/ending/image themes. As a child, Kitade wanted to be a singer. She started learning the piano at the age of three, and wrote her own lyrics at twelve. In junior high school, she became a fan of Ringo Shiina and learned to play the guitar, traveling frequently to Tokyo for singing lessons.

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Pissed Off

There are at least two bands with this name 1) A Powerviolence band from the UK 2) Pissed Off is a french duo. It features Adrien A. playing drums and Mickael D. at guitars, both "singing" or... well, shouting. It is actually not completly music and could be better described as being just noise. Weird noise, funny noise, awful noise, some says... The thing with Pissed Off is that the duo isn't serious at all.

Read more about Pissed Off on Last.fm.

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