Japanese rocker Miyavi turns heads in the US
Japanese rock or J-Rock has been around for a few decades. But a subgenre of J-Rock called Visual Kei is finding an audience among Americans. Elizabeth Segal reports on one musician, Miyavi, who is winding up a US tour.
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