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WASHINGTON - As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents 'house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background.
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As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents 'house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background.
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As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents 'house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background.
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WASHINGTON - As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 4: 45 PM CDT WASHINGTON - As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents 'house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in the background.
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Also, those traditional-esque songs called enka here in Japan must get so dull to plunk through after a while…I mean the guitar player was nearly catatonic noodling his way through his “solo”…after a while you’ve got to do something to get through the song with your sanity and enthusiasm intact…
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Keep your eyes on that drummer back there 2008
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Singer Jerome White, Jr., 27, known as Jero, performs a type of Japanese blues called "enka", at the opening ceremony of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, in Washington on Saturday, March 28, 2009.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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Singer Jerome White, Jr., 27, known as Jero, performs a type of Japanese blues called "enka", at the opening ceremony of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, in Washington on Saturday, March 28, 2009.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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Singer Jerome White, Jr., 27, known as Jero, performs a type of Japanese blues called "enka", at the opening ceremony of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, in Washington on Saturday, March 28, 2009.
Island Packet: Home 2009
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A Swiss friend of mine used to go to sing enka on the whole, and take full advantage of the all-you-can-drink offer they ran at Jumbo Karaoke by knocking back at least five pints of Asahi in two hours!
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