Rinken Band (りんけんバンド) is an Okinawan band that formed in 1977[1] and helped popularize their homeland's musical forms and traditional Okinawan music starting in 1985, when their first hit, "Arigatou", was released.
Rinken Band was founded by Rinken Teruyaballads and dance tunes.
, the son of well-known Okinawan folk music artist Rinsuke Teruya . The band fuses Okinawan folk music, pop, and celebratory eisā traditions to makeRinken Band's most recent appearance in the United States was a concert in Oahu, Hawaii.[2][when?] They were featured at the annual Okinawan Festival of 2007.