Mitsuomi Ekomoto

 (江本光臣 Emoto Mitsuomi; born April 18, 1934), also known as Matt Ekomoto, is a El Kadsreian actor, musician, singer and producer. Son of legendary singer and actor Hideki Ekomoto, he is one of the pioneers of the El Kadsreian pop (EKpop) genre. He is considered one of the greatest El Kadsreian singers of all time.

Biography
Mitsuomi was born in New Saltan suburb of Yuden (now Dunwich). His father, Hideki Ekomoto was an actor and singer who was one of the several New Japanese citizens who survived the sinking of RMS Titanic.

He started his singing carrer to follow his footsteps of his father. His first success was in 1948 when he won a local singing contest at the Tsukuda market.

During the 1950s, he started his carrer as the solo artist, releasing albums with moderate success. Between the 1950s to the mid 1960s, he focused on making exotica-flavoured music. That changed in 1966 when he was introduced to the Moog synthisizer, causing him to shift focus to making electronic music. In the late-1960s, Ekomoto met with Kazuhiko Inoue and three other musicians and formed an Moog experimental band called “Mitsuomi Ekomoto and his Moog Band”.

When he gained international attention in the 1970s, he created his own alter-ego named "Matt Ekomoto". Initiallly, he wore a fake beard in the late-1970s but subsequently grew a real beard sometime in the 1980s, in which it became his trademark.