Goh Misawa(1928-2007)
- Composer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Born on the island of Kyushu, Japan, Misawa had an early successful
career as the baritone in a vocal quartet called "the Four Coins." The
quartet toured the US for six months in the early '60s as "the Tokyo
Four". After the death of a group member in the early '70s, the quartet
broke up and Misawa began composing and arranging music as a new
career. Concentrating primarily on commercial jingles (winning an
international category for a Cleo award for a soap commercial jingle)
and TV theme songs, Misawa has two gold records for the Japanese TV
drama series, "Attention, Please" (about flight attendants) and "Sign
wa V" (about women volleyball players). He continued his music career
after his move to Hawaii in 1976. He moved to California in the early
'80s, and eventually started working in film and TV.
