Remember ‘Japan’s Beethoven’, Who Was Really Neither Deaf Nor A Composer? His Ghostwriter Is Making His Name On His Own

“On Feb. 6, 2014, Takashi Niigaki faced a crowd of reporters … in Tokyo and took a deep and apologetic bow. He had just revealed that he was ghostwriter for Mamoru Samuragochi, who was celebrated as ‘Japan’s Beethoven’ before being exposed as a fraud. In Hiroshima on Aug. 15 of … Read entire story.

Source: MUSIC – ArtsJournal