Rinken Band
id:
rinken-band-167-3549275
title:
Rinken Band
text:
Rinken Band (りんけんバンド) is an Okinawan band that formed in 1977 and helped popularize their homeland's musical forms and traditional Okinawan music starting in 1985, when their first hit, "Arigatou", was released. Rinken Band was founded by Rinken Teruya, the son of well-known Okinawan folk music artist Rinsuke Teruya. The band fuses Okinawan folk music, pop, and celebratory eisā traditions to make ballads and dance tunes. Rinken Band's most recent appearance in the United States was a concert in
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Traditional Okinawan music band
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinken_Band
date created:
2003-10-27T21:31:21Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:03:56Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q7335050","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7335050"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15