Towa Tei
Towa Tei (Japaneseテイ·トウワ, Towa Tei for sinokoreanisch郑东 和, Chung Dong- hwa; * on September 7, 1964 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese DJ Korean descent.
Tei was first known to a wider audience in 1989 with the production of the album Done by the Forces of Nature by the New York hip-hop trio Jungle Brothers.
The following year he was elected a member of the New York underground trio Deee -Lite an international star. The debut single Groove Is in the Heart conquered the charts around the world and is now considered classics. After two albums Towa Tei left the band and started to work on solo projects.
His debut album Future Listening! appeared in 1995 and is a mixture of electronic dance music with bossa nova and jazz elements. It occupies the 59th place in Rolling Stone Japan 's " 100 Greatest Japanese rock Album of All Time ". Three more albums followed in 1998, 1999 and 2004.