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Tetsuya Komuro (小室哲哉 Komuro Tetsuya, born November 27, 1958 in Tokyo Japan) is a popular Japanese keyboard player, songwriter and music producer. He got his start as a keyboardist for TM NETWORK in 1984. A years later, in 1985 his first solo works was the soundtrack for the anime Vampire Hunter D, also his band TM Network did the closing credits song "Your Song". TM Network did renewal its name to TMN in 1990.
However by the early 1990s he was spending much of his time writing and producing other bands. In 1991, Komuro collaborated with X Japan's Yoshiki as the V2.
He was an early pioneer of techno/rave music in Japan, and rode the early 1990s disco boom to stardom with a long string of hits with bands such as TRF (TK Rave Factory), Tomomi Kahala, Namie Amuro, globe, Ryoko Shinohara and H Jungle with t.
TMN did end active in 1994, then in 1999 they had reunited under their old name of TM Network, and remains active to this day.
He is perhaps best known in the west for his collaboration with French keyboardist Jean-Michel Jarre from 1998 to 2001. The duet wrote the theme song for the 1998 FIFA World Cup ("Together Now") as well as several other tracks and remixes.
Yoshiki started collaborating with globe in 2002.
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