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In the hyper-traditional world of Japanese enka singing, there is not generally a whole lot of area for change — in the lyrics, in the music, or in the singers and audiences themselves. Within an unusual twist, nevertheless, an details sciences graduate from Pittsburgh gained a karaoke competition (his competition …

While enka, a reasonably traditional Japanese vocal pop (sometimes viewed as something of the correlate of fado), quietly fades into memory space under the excess weight of J-Pop’s recognition, several proponents have propped in the genre. Going swimming against the existing of his age group group’s musical propensities, Kiyoshi Hikawa …