If you've walked by the Laforet building in Harajuku recently, you might have noticed a huge banner that draped the structure's exterior featuring a masked character, looking something like a pro wrestler, poking his head out of what appears to be a body of water.
The banner read, "This is the man who has been summoned by Tetsuya Komuro," and went on to explain that on Sept. 1 a new member would be joining globe, the three-person unit that Komuro has led since 1995. Globe is one of J-pop's biggest-selling acts, so this was big news indeed.
Who would it be? Globe's lineup was already pretty eclectic: Besides producer/songwriter/keyboardist Komuro, there's vocalist Keiko and Franco-Japanese rapper Marc Panther, who does his thing in English.
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