{"id":2105681,"date":"2025-10-21T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2105681"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:13:11","slug":"ryuichi-sakamoto-estate-joins-no-music-for-genocide-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ryuichi-sakamoto-estate-joins-no-music-for-genocide-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryuichi Sakamoto estate joins \u2018No Music For Genocide\u2019 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The estate of legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has joined the \u2019No Music For Genocide\u2019 campaign and removed the artist\u2019s music from streaming in Israel.<\/p>\n

The estate wrote on Facebook: \u201cTo the extent possible, the Estate has removed or issued formal requests to labels to remove his music from all DSP (streaming and download) services in Israel. For much of his catalog, this has already taken effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u2019No Music For Genocide\u2019 campaign is a cultural boycott initiative which encourages artists and rights-holders to pull their music from streaming platforms in Israel, in response to the genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

More than 400 artists, including Bj\u00f6rk<\/strong><\/a>, Massive Attack<\/strong><\/a>, Fontaines D.C.<\/strong><\/a>, Paramore<\/strong><\/a>, Kneecap<\/strong><\/a> and Wednesday<\/strong><\/a>, have joined \u2018No Music For Genocide\u2019, with each involved sending geo-block requests to their distributor or label.<\/p>\n

They are encouraging major label groups like Sony, UMG and Warner to follow suit, especially since they blocked their entire music catalogues in Russia a month into their invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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A statement from \u2018No Music For Genocide<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 stated: \u201cCulture can\u2019t stop bombs on its own, but it can help reject political repression, shift public opinion toward justice, and refuse the art-washing and normalization of any company or nation that commits crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other artists part of the initiative include Lorde, Wolf Alice, IDLES, Lucy Dacus, AURORA, Rina Sawayama, Primal Scream, Amyl & The Sniffers and M\u00d8.<\/p>\n

Ryuichi Sakamoto died in 2023, aged 71<\/strong><\/a>. He was a pioneer of electronic music in the late 1970s and founded the Yellow Magic Orchestra, also known as YMO, with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi. He went on to become a world-renowned composer for films like The Last Emperor<\/em>, a score for which he won an Oscar in 1987, as well as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence<\/em>, The Sheltering Sky<\/em>, Little Buddha<\/em> and The Revenant<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The estate of legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto has joined the \u2019No Music For Genocide\u2019 campaign and removed the artist\u2019s music from streaming in Israel. The estate wrote on Facebook: \u201cTo the extent possible, the Estate has removed or issued formal requests to labels to remove his music from all DSP (streaming and download) services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2105682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[353634,311659,308806,398501,398500],"class_list":["post-2105681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-campaign","tag-facebook","tag-israel","tag-no-music-for-genocide","tag-ryuichi-sakamoto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ryuichi-Sakamoto-estate-joins-\u2018No-Music-For-Genocide-campaign.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105683,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105681\/revisions\/2105683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2105682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}