MUSICIAN

Shigeru Umebayashi

1951 - Today

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Shigeru Umebayashi (梅林茂, Umebayashi Shigeru, [ɯmebajaɕi ɕiɡeɾɯ]) (born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer. Once the leader and bass player of Japan's new wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 30 Japanese and Chinese film scores to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for "Yumeji's Theme" (originally from Seijun Suzuki's Yumeji), included in director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigeru Umebayashi has received more than 367,892 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Shigeru Umebayashi is the 816th most popular musician (up from 862nd in 2019), the 927th most popular biography from Japan (down from 892nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Musician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Shigeru Umebayashi ranks 816 out of 3,175. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Arban, Chris Squire, Yusef Lateef, Xaver Scharwenka, Gerry Rafferty, and Sylvester Levay. After him are Marcos Valle, Chuck Schuldiner, Adam Levine, Dee Dee Warwick, Duško Gojković, and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Shigeru Umebayashi ranks 197. Before him are Ana Belén, William Katt, Michel Barnier, Moriteru Ueshiba, Marc Surer, and André Aciman. After him are David Kipiani, Massimo Ranieri, Gediminas Kirkilas, Sulejman Tihić, Kenny Roberts, and Stanley Clarke.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeru Umebayashi ranks 927 out of 6,245. Before him are Sayuri Yoshinaga (1945), Yuji Kishioku (1954), Genichi Taguchi (1924), Moriteru Ueshiba (1951), Akinori Nakayama (1943), and Haruo Nakajima (1929). After him are Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Masakatsu Miyamoto (1938), Sakuma Shōzan (1811), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Takuya Kimura (1972), and Tadao Onishi (1943).

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Among MUSICIANS In Japan

Among musicians born in Japan, Shigeru Umebayashi ranks 9. Before him are Mitsuko Uchida (1948), Isao Tomita (1932), Shinichi Suzuki (1898), Yoshiki (1965), Hide (1964), and Haruomi Hosono (1947). After him are Susumu Hirasawa (1954), Mitski (1990), Yuki Kajiura (1965), LiSA (1987), Gackt (1973), and Hyde (1969).

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