Career
Since moving to Japan in 1999 to begin his career in the music industry, he has worked with many Japanese artists such as JUJU, Kana Nishino, Namie Amuro, TVXQ, Weather Girls, as well as international artists like Boyz II Men, Girls" Generation, and Timbaland. He has accrued many Oricon rated Number. #1 Digital Download hits, including "Kimi Number Subete Ni" by Spontania foot
JUJU and JASMINE"s "sad to say".
He was awarded several Gold Disc Awards by the Recording Industry Association of Japan in 2005, 2008, 2009, and was titled Nikkei Entertainment"s "Hitmaker of the Year" in 2010. He has sold over 33 million units to date.
In 2009, Miyahara signed a deal with UM360 (Universal Music 360, the management division of Universal Music Japan) after the success of his 2008 breakout hit "Kiminosubeteni", a hip-popular track he produced for Spontania featuring JUJU, which sold over 5 million digital downloads. In this year alone he was involved in the release of over 50 CDs.
He currently has projects in the works with artists in the United States, of Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia, while continuing his work in Japan.
Miyahara has cited his multi-cultural and multi-lingual background (Los Angeles-raised, half Korean, half Japanese) as the foundation on which his approach to songwriting and production is conceived. He was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. During his teenage years Miyahara began playing guitar and was impressed both by heavy metal and the burgeoning Music Television culture of mainstream music in the 1980s.
While Miyahara was still in school he developed his skills as a music producer.
During this same period he traveled to of Korea, where he became friends with other Asian-Americans of similar backgrounds and first began taking part in recording sessions as a producer. In 1999, he moved to Japan to start his full scale music career.
Miyahara"s breakthrough success came in August 2008 with the release of Spontania feat. JUJU"s "Kiminosubeteni", which he produced.
The song reached number 1 on the USEN chart, fourth in the yearly iTunes ranking ja:君のすべてに and was downloaded over 5 million times.
In 2009, another of Miyahara"s productions, JUJU feat. JAY’Education “Ashitagakurunara” ranked Number.1 on the Chaku Uta hit charts ja:明日がくるなら
Jeff’s most recent initiative is the Chris Hart (musician) is an example among many of their projects. Jeff discovered Chris and with help from his, turned Chris into a polished, multi-award winning, and purportedly 750,000+ album-selling phenomenon.