Masato Nakamura
{{Short description|Japanese musician (born 1958)}}
{{for|the baseball player|Masato Nakamura (baseball)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date = March 2025}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Masato Nakamura
| birth_name =
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|10|1}}
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| origin =
| instrument = Bass guitar
| genre = {{hlist|J-pop|electropop|jazz|city pop|chiptune|video game music}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Bassist|composer|record producer}}
| years_active = 1988–present
| label = Universal Music Japan, Universal Republic Records
| current_member_of= Dreams Come True
| website = {{url|http://blog.dctgarden.com/}}
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{{nihongo|Masato Nakamura|中村 正人|Nakamura Masato|born October 1, 1958}} is a Japanese musician, bass guitarist, and record producer. He is a member of the J-pop band Dreams Come True, which was formed in 1988 and went on to sell over 50{{nbsp}}million CDs.{{cite web |url=http://dwl2007.yahoo.co.jp/dct/plofile.html |title=DREAMS COME TRUE WONDERLAND 2007特集 |publisher=Yahoo! Japan |date=2007-02-13 |access-date=2008-11-22 |language=Japanese |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703173327/http://dwl2007.yahoo.co.jp/dct/plofile.html |archive-date=3 July 2007 }} He also composed the soundtracks for the video games Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992).
Career
Nakamura was originally a session musician before forming the "Cha-Cha & Audrey's Project" with Miwa Yoshida. In 1988, they formed the band Dreams Come True along with keyboardist Takahiro Nishikawa. In July 2002, he founded the record company "DCT Records" with Yoshida. They now serve as executive producers. Nakamura composes much of the catalog for Dreams Come True and arranges almost all of it.
On June 22, 2008, he married Mākii, the 20-year-old former lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band, High and Mighty Color.{{cite web | url=http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/flash/KFullFlash20080702001.html | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911210804/http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/flash/KFullFlash20080702001.html | archive-date=11 September 2008 | title=ドリカム中村正人が結婚！お相手は２９歳年下 | language=ja | date=2 July 2008 | publisher=Sponichi Annex | access-date=19 June 2016 }}
=''Sonic the Hedgehog'' =
Nakamura was picked by Sega to compose the music for the original Sonic the Hedgehog early in 1990. Later that year on 7 November, the game was revealed for the first time by being painted on the side of Dream Come True's tour bus. He was also in the middle of recording the band's fourth album, Million Kisses during Sonic the Hedgehog, and their fifth album, The Swinging Star during Sonic the Hedgehog 2.{{cite web|title=Masato Nakamura interview|url=http://info.sonicretro.org/Masato_Nakamura_interview_by_Sonic_Central_%28May_18,_2005%29|publisher=Sonic Retro|access-date=5 January 2015}}
In 2006, Nakamura contributed a remixed version of the ending theme from Sonic the Hedgehog 2, "Sweet Sweet Sweet", for the 2006 game Sonic the Hedgehog.
In 2022, Nakamura voiced the Siberian champion in the Japanese dub of the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 film.{{Cite web|url=https://sega.jp/topics/220708_3/|script-title=ja:中村正人(DREAMS COME TRUE)がまさかの役柄で映画吹替初挑戦、ソニックと30年越し共演!!|publisher=sega.jp|access-date=13 November 2022|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920083909/https://sega.jp/topics/220708_3/|archive-date=20 September 2022}}
=Other musical activity=
References
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External links
- [http://blog.dctgarden.com Masato Nakamura's blog]
- [http://www.dreamscometrue.com Dreams Come True website]
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Category:Dreams Come True (band)
Category:Japanese male composers
Category:Japanese session musicians
Category:Japanese male bass guitarists