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...roof of their bus overnight as the overflowing Yura River swirled around them. The passengers later told Japan's Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster courage. At one point, the water rose to stomach level. (All were safely rescued by helicopter and boat on Thursday morning.) Also stranded were 167 people aboard the Kaiwo Maru, a sail-powered merchant-marine training ship that ran aground in the waters off Toyama, 255 km northwest...
...being globalized, to step on the world playing field without being ground into it. In today's global music, musical boundary hopping is often integral to a political message, as when Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki, an American chart topper by way of Japan. (For Bookman, even singing in Creole--which has periodically been outlawed in Haiti--is a political act.) Protest singers in Africa and the Caribbean have long preached a musical and lyrical Pan-Africanism, from Kuti's mondo-Afro beats back to Peter...
...remember the disaster. They all fall silent as Diana Yukawa, 15, picks up her violin. She shuts her eyes and plays a tune by the singer Kyu Sakamoto, who also died in the crash. The song topped charts around the world in 1963 (in the U.S., it was called Sukiyaki) and is popular again in Japan thanks to the plaintive rendition Diana plays in sold-out concerts and on a best-selling debut CD, which is dedicated to her father and other victims of the crash. When she finishes, she walks calmly into a log cabin and bursts into tears...
...Some tunes wore their otherness proudly. It was hard to ignore that Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" was Spanish or that "Sukiyaki" by Q (Kyu) Sakamoto was Japanese; those were the languages the tunes were sung in. Even a few translated songs had the novelty of distance and difference - "Skokian," for instance. As I recall the English lyric, it wore its ethnographic condescension jovially: "Oh, far away in Africa,/ Happy happy Africa,/ They do a bingo-bongo-bingo/ In hokey-smoky-Skokian...
There are two reasons CoCo might actually succeed in making it on both sides of the Pacific?a feat that hasn't been accomplished since The Sukiyaki Song in 1963. First, she's great looking: those almond-eyes and alluring lips, memorable curves, that skin. The second factor is a quaint one: in the epoch of manager-produced boy bands and teen stars, CoCo Lee can actually sing. Bill Conti, Rocky composer and the conductor of this year's Academy Award orchestra, says he sensed her star quality at the first rehearsal. "Her presence reminds me of Celine when...