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Renowned Japanese composer Mamoru Samuragochi admits fraud

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Renowned Japanese composer Mamoru Samuragochi admits fraud Empty Renowned Japanese composer Mamoru Samuragochi admits fraud

Post by Seva Lamberdar Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:53 am

TOKYO: He was celebrated as a prolific musical genius whose compositions appeared in popular video games and the competition routine of a top figure skater in the coming Sochi Olympics. His deafness won him praise as Japan's modern-day Beethoven.

It turns out that his magnum opus was his own masquerade.

On Thursday, Japan learned that one of its most popular musical figures, Mamoru Samuragochi, 50, had staged an elaborate hoax in which someone else had secretly written his most famous compositions, and he had perhaps even faked his hearing disability. .............

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Renowned-Japanese-composer-Mamoru-Samuragochi-admits-fraud/articleshow/29978429.cms
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