Introduction

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(Here's some info about the band and the members before we start)

~Ryuichi Sakamoto
Born at January 17th, 1952 is a Japanese pianist known for his work in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence in 1983 and The Last Emperor in 1987 also played in the two movies. He's the keyboardist of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) and has released 19 solo studio albums, six live albums, several compilation albums, two EPs, and various singles and soundtracks. He's called Professor or 教授 (kyouju) in Japanese for his high intelligence in music and his experiments in music.

~Yukihiro Takahashi
Born at June 6th, 1952 is the drummer and vocalist of Yellow Magic Orchestra. Former member of Sadistic Mika Band, he joined YMO at 1978 after releasing his first album "Saravah" at 1977 which was remastered and rebooted at 2013 with the name "Saravah, Saravah!" Takahashi was diagnosed with brain tumor at summer 2020 and underwent surgery. The surgery went well and he announced that there are no after effects.

~Haruomi Hosono
Born at July 9th, 1947 is the bassist, leader and founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra. Former member of Happy End band and a key influence on City Pop genre, invented by Tatsuro Yamashita. Invited Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1976 as a member of his live band and recruited Yukihiro Takahashi at 1977 after the disbanding of Sadistic Mika Band and on the same year, worked on an album "Paraiso" which was released at 1978. Released an album in 1984 named "Video Game Music" after commissioned by Namco and one of the music produced for the game is Pac Man.

~Yellow Magic Orchestra~
Founded and formed by Haruomi Hosono at 1978, was the third pioneer of EDM after Giorgio Moroder and Kraftwerk. Started off as a one-off exploration of computerized exotica and parody of Western conceptions of the orient, the band was known worldwide after the release of their second album, "Solid State Survivor" in 1979 despite the less popular reception of the first album with the same name of the band at 1978. Done numerous of tours and live concerts and produced 34 albums and 23 singles for the span of 43 years. Disbanded at 1984 as each members pursue their individual music career then at 1993 released a reunion album, "Technodon" under the name NOT YMO (YMO crossed out with a calligraphy X)

The band reunited at 2007 and reformed under the name HASYMO or Human Audio Sponge Yellow Magic Orchestra. At 2012, the band participated in No Nukes festival and the band's latest performance was at 2018 in London as Hosono's first solo concert joined with Takahashi and Sakamoto on stage performing "Absolute Ego Dance".

Source from Wikipedia

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