is a renowned Japanese singer

J-pop

, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 and actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. He performs as T.M.Revolution (TMR), which stands for although the name stems from the famous 80s pop electronic band TM Network

TM Network

TM Network is a Japanese pop/rock musical band. The members are Tetsuya Komuro , Takashi Utsunomiya and Naoto Kine...

. Despite most of his songs being written by Akio Inoue

Akio Inoue

is a female Japanese lyricist from Kanagawa Prefecture. Inoue writes the majority of songs recorded by T.M.Revolution, Takanori Nishikawa’s solo project, as well as for other artists produced by Daisuke Asakura.-External links:...

 and composed/arranged by Daisuke Asakura

Daisuke Asakura

is a male Japanese pop artist.His childhood consisted of electronic organ lessons and the expectations to follow the family trade of plumbing.Asakura began his career with landing a job at Yamaha right after high school. While under Yamaha, Asakura worked on the EOS synthesizer; he was also...

 (also TMR’s former producer), T.M.Revolution is considered Nishikawa’s solo project.

Nishikawa debuted as TMR with the release of his first single in May 1996.