TeN is a vocalist of Dance Music House Unit A Hundred Birds (AHB) led by DJ Yoku. She has released numerous works from major. The representative work that took her to be AHB was "Angelique Kizyo Cover" - from the original of Batonga released from the 2000 NY label. The work was heavily played by DJs in various countries in the Western dance music scene.
In 2007, TeN worked as a solo artist. Her both image and voice has been gaining popularity, such as currently being televised in long runs. In 2009, she released her first solo production album "High Low" (Label: Village Again) as TeN. The work was also elected as Bounce Opus of the year 2009 excellent work published by Tower Records.
Kotaro Oshio (押尾 コータロー Oshio Kōtarō, real name: 押尾 光太郎) is an acoustic guitarist from Japan. Born in Osaka Prefecture, on February 1, 1968, he is best known for his work on the steel string guitar. Oshio is a part of Sony Music Japan's SME Records division.
Oshio's music is classified within various categories including pop, new age, and jazz. Oshio's musical technique includes fingerpicking, tap harmonics, and a unique strumming style referred to as a "nail attack" in which he slaps the strings with the nails of his middle and ring fingers which is inspired by Michael Hedges. While his albums include mostly original material, Oshio is also known for his covers and movie soundtracks. His unique skill in interpretation and arrangement can be heard in tracks such as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence from his album Starting Point.
Oshio released his first indie record in December, 1999, which was followed by a second indie album in March, 2001. In July 2002, he released his first major record label album Starting Point and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival with B.B. King.
Discography
Kotaro Oshio (December 18, 1999 in Japan)
Love Strings (March 22, 2001 in Japan)
Starting Point (July 10, 2002 in Japan)
Dramatic (June 18, 2003 in Japan)
Be Happy (June 23, 2004 in Japan)
BOLERO!Be Happy Live (December 15, 2004 in Japan)
Panorama (September 7, 2005 in Japan)
Blue sky〜Kotaro Oshio Best Album〜 (September 29, 2006 in Japan)
Color of Life (November 29, 2006 in Japan)
Nature Spirit (Jan 1st, 2008 in Japan)
You & Me (Oct 1st, 2008 in Japan)
Tussie Mussie (Mar 11, 2009 in Japan)
Eternal Chain (Aug 5, 2009 in Japan)
Hand to Hand (Jan 12, 2011 in Japan)
Reboot & Collabo. (April 24, 2013 in Japan)
Pandora (July 30, 2014 in Japan)
Tussie Mussie II -Love Cinema- (November 25, 2015 in Japan)
KTRxGTR (November 9, 2016 in Japan)
Minami Yoshitaka (Minatomi Yoshika, January 8, 1950 -) is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Ota ward, Tokyo
Debuted in 1973 with Takashi Matsumoto's album "Heroine of Skyscraper". His cover "Monroe Walk" of Hiroumi Township was released in 1979 with the title of "Sexy You", and becam a big hit. In 1981 he sang the theme song of the original movie "Make it a slow boogie" and became the image song of Honda in 1991.
In March 2016, he had a collaboration work with FM COCOLO "NIGHT AND DAY"
The ultimate cover album "Radio songs NIGHT AND DAY" which recorded various songs regardless of Western-style Japanese music was released. In addition to live activities, he also offers songs, CM songs, and narration.
Chikaco Sawada (Sawada Chikako, August 4, 1963 -) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Born in Hachimantai City.
After working at the Traffic Safety Association in Saitama Prefecture, she started live house activities. She brought a demo tape to the master of the live house "Lantern" in Shibuya, and her debut was decided. 1987 she debuted with "Calling it as a lover".
In 1990, "I want to see you" (the theme song of TV Asahi "Tonight"), which was a single-cut from the album "I MISS YOU", achieved a single sales of 1.3 million sheets with a long-term hit, and she was in the 100th place on the Oricon single chart. She ranked in for a long period of 87 weeks and received the Grand Prix at the "24th All Japan Wireless Broadcast Grand Prize" in 1991.
Masanori Yoshinori (January 8, 1951 -) is a Japanese vocalist, singer, songwriter and actor. In 1964, he entered the handball division at Honjo Junior High School and won the Kobe citizen competition. Since that time, he began to engage in band activities.
He went to Tokyo in 1971 and made a debut as a solo singer with the single "I want to shoot the foot of this foot". In 1980, he released "Dancing All Night" which became a big hit and won the 22nd Japan Record Award Gold Award. He also participated in the 10th Tokyo Music Festival and received the " Stevie Wonder Prize".
He appeared in the movie for the first time in 1981 as an actor with "Burning Brave".
In 1983, he released "Summer Woman Sonia" with a duet with Junko Ohashi who belonged to the same office at that time.
Minami Kizuki (城 南海 Kizuki Minami), born on 26 December 1989, is a Japanese pop and Shima-uta folk singer. She was born in Amami Ōshima, Kagoshima, Japan.
In 2006, a talent scout from the Pony Canyon record label discovered her singing Shima-uta songs in a park in Kagoshima. In 2007, at the age of 18, she made her public debut at the MBC Summer Festival in Kagoshima. The following year, Kagoshima Television aired a short documentary about her debut and career rise. For the next several years, she released several singles and performed numerous times on radio and television throughout Japan, as well as travelling to New York City in June 2010 to perform at "Japan Day @ Central Park", a Japanese cultural expo.
Television fame
On 29 July 2014, Kizuki first appeared on THEカラオケ★バトル (The Karaoke★Battle), a televised karaoke competition shown on TV Tokyo. The initial contest was made during various type of professional persons who are concerning to singing, and she got the highest score and won the competition. The second contest was a team event, with various teams of professional singers. Kizuki and her team Amami Ōshima with Kosuke Atari and Mina Ganaha, ultimately won the competition. She has become renowned for her pitch and singing technique, called Guin, a kind of kobushi, in which a single syllable of text is sung while moving between several different notes in succession (this technique being common to her native islands' Shima-uta singing).
Since her premiere on The Karaoke★Battle in 2014, Kizuki has gone on to win ten competitions (most recently in June 2016), and has garnered the nickname 'The absolute Karaoke Queen'.
Outside of karaoke, in 2014 she coveredthe ending themes to the Korean drama The King's Doctor in Japanese language, and in December 2014 provided Inoriuta - Toutoganasi, a ending song for the NHK World programme J-Melo, an English-language programme aimed at exploring Japanese music.
On 21 January 2015, her first cover album Sakuranagashi (サクラナガシ, lit. "Rainy Season of Cherry Brossoms") was released, featuring many songs covered on The Karaoke★Battle. On 17 June 2015, her second cover album, Minamikaze (ミナミカゼ, lit. "Southern Wind") was released.
She also won a championship on a Fuji Television program "The 5th Championship of Impersonators" on December 11, 2015, by imitating Ayumi Hamasaki, Superfly and Chitose Hajime during 28 professional impressionists and singers.
Radio personality
She is in charge of a radio program "Emotional Beat, Music Airport" on Rainbow Town FM in Koto Ward, Tokyo from January 2014. It is an monthly program on the third Saturday of every month (16:00 - 17:00 JST)
Kizuki played Shiro mokuren or white magnolia, which protect the raccoon dog forest on musical Tanuki Goten(狸御殿, lit. "Raccoon Dog Palace") in Shimbashi Embujo, Tokyo, during August 2016. It is directed by Amon Miyamoto and starring Onoe Matsuya and Miori Takimoto. The musical will be aired on January 2, 2017 on NHK educational channel.
There is no schedule or ticket right now.
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