Mitsuomi Ekomoto

 (江本光臣 Emoto Mitsuomi; born April 18, 1934), also known as Matt Ekomoto, is an El Kadsreian actor, musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record 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 to be one of the greatest El Kadsreian singers of all time, next to Australian-El Kadsreian William Benter.

Biography
Mitsuomi was born in New Saltan suburb of Yuden (now Dunwich), to Japanese-Sentanese parents. 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 career to follow his footsteps of his father. His first success was in 1948 when he won a local singing contest at the Tsukuda market, where he landed a contract deal with Naisuka Records. During the 1950s, he released albums as a solo artist to moderate successes, though they have obtained a cult following in recent years.. in 1956, Mitsuomi would release his first English-language single, "Anything For You", which would then kickstart Ekomoto's success outside of El Kadsre. Due to the Republic of El Kadsre's split into the West, East & North four years prior, Ekomoto was forced to moved to the East since he was of Japanese-descent and was prohibited to make English-language music. In 1962, he moved to the Cliffstown Safe Zone in order to continue writing English-language songs. Between the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, he was focused on making exotica-flavoured music outside of his then-usual Jazz music, though he changed to synthesizer music in 1966 when he was introduced to the Moog synthesizer. 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”, where they released his hit single, "Come Alive", which was popularized by Australian-El Kadsreian multiinstrumentalist and singer, William Benter in 1985.

After the fall of the East and West and the formation of the Vlokozu Union, Mitsuomi moved back to Dunwich, El Kadsre to resume his life in the country-turned-Vlokozuian state. When he became involved in the disco scene in the 1970s with the success of his disco-oriented album, Moon Boogie, he created his own alter-ego named "Matt Ekomoto" and began experimenting with other music genres outside of Jazz and synth music. Initially, he would wear a fake beard in the late-1970s but subsequently grew a real beard sometime in the 1980s, in which it became his trademark, otherwise known by its nickname as, "the Beard of Matt".

Discography

 * Sunny (1951)
 * Mr. Kayos, Meet Mr. Ekomoto (1953)
 * In The Universe (1954)
 * Darling (1955)
 * Anything For You (1956)

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