Arthur Nakane

Who is Arthur Nakane?

Arthur Nakane is a Los Angeles-based musician/songwriter and screenwriter, best known for being the subject of the 2000 documentary film Secret Asian Man and also being a star on the 2010 TV show America's Got Talent.

He is a modern-age one-man band with traditional style, utilizing electronic equipment, but without using any programmed, prerecorded or computer-generated music.

Nakane's trademark is not a particular song, or even his unique sound, but his playing style that provides a complete musical entertainment, with comic flair, which has impressed many well-known people including Jack Black, Roseanne Barr and Andrae Crouch.

He sings over 1,000 songs of various genres including pop, rock, oldies, standard, traditional, folk, country/western, Latin, Hawaiian and Japanese. He sings in English, Japanese and Spanish.

He plays the electric guitar, a harmonica around his neck and an echo-miked kazoo that imitates the sound of saxophone. He uses three keyboards, which he plays with a stick attached to the neck of his guitar. He plays his handmade 25-key bass pedal board with his two feet.