Haruomi Hosono

Takada Ren

Takada Ren (August 20, 1973 -) is a multi-stringed instrument player from Tokyo, a member of pupa. His father is a folk singer Takada.
1970's - Lyrics of Ryo Kagawa's album "Out of Mind", lyrics of Takuro Yoshida's song "Ayatan", lyrics such as Folk singer Father · Takada Wada's "FISHIN ON SUNDAY" and lyrics and crying Was.

1990 - When he was 17 years old, he participated in the album "Travelber Band" by Nishioka Kyozo and made a debut session.

In the latter half of the 1990's - while serving as the back of my father, he is also involved in numerous sessions including Hana Leagumi, Ikuko Harada, Miyuki Hatakeyama, Polaris Anne Sally, Sandy Hashken.

2002 - Solo debut with the album "LULLABY".

2006 - Haruomi Hosono & in charge of pedal steel as a member of Tokyo Shaines. Also the same year's Yukihiro Takahashi solo tour is supported with pedal steel, mandolin, acoustic guitar.

2007 - In addition to participating as a support member for the charity live of Human Audio Sponge (Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ryuichi Sakamoto), in the summer he formed pupa with Yukihiro Takahashi, Tomoyo Hara and others.

2013 - Major debut from SPEEDSTAR RECORDS in the album "Ensemble".

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Ito Earth

Itoh Daichi (Ito Daichi, March 8, 1980 -) is a Japanese drummer. He is from Tokyo.
He was born in Tokyo Hoya City (present: Nishitokyo city). Pisces, A type.He started acting as a drummer after high school graduation.
In 2000, it started as a member of SAKEROCK.
It was announced from April 2011 that it belongs to music office TONE.

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Navigational Iga

Navigational Iga is a Japanese Musicians .
He is from Miyagi prefecture. Begin the base when you are a high school student. Having joined the design office since graduating from university (second grade architect). After going to Tokyo in 1996, join the soul band "benzo" in Japanese. He decided to concentrate on band activities and left the design office. In 1998, he made major debut with the single "I want to hold you" and the album "Case of benzo". In 2011, band activity paused.
Currently he is active as support bass player of various musicians such as Haruomi Hosono, Gen Hoshino, Keiichi Sogabe, Yuichi Ohta, Saiho Terao, Innotomo. Also, along with Nagakubo Hiroyuki (g), Yuko Kitayama (d), he also works as a band "lake".

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Takashi Nomura

Takashi Nomura (February 18, 1927 – May 5, 2015) is a Japanese film director for studios including Nikkatsu. The Criterion Collection described him as a "prominent, stylistically daring director".
While on contract with Nikkatsu, Nomura directed films such as The Quick Draw Kid (1961).
He is perhaps best known for A Colt Is My Passport (1967), influenced by French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean-Pierre Melville, and by Sergio Leone-style Westerns. Nomura's use of still shots in the opening sequence has been compared to manga art techniques.

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Akiko Yano

Akiko Yano (矢野 顕子 , Yano Akiko, born February 13, 1955) is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer. She was born in Tokyo and raised in Aomori, and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s. Her vocals and singing style have been compared to British singer Kate Bush.

Akiko recorded her debut album, Japanese Girl, primarily in Los Angeles with Lowell George and Little Feat. She began collaborating with Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). They continued to play on her next recording projects and invited Akiko to join them on two of their worldwide tours. Akiko expanded her musical collaborations with YMO on her subsequent CD releases. One of these collaborations, her fourth studio album Gohan Ga Dekitayo (1980), was one of the earliest CDs ever released in 1982.

Akiko continued to release CDs joined by JAPAN and Pat Metheny and has performed on albums by Thomas Dolby and other artists. In 1990 Akiko relocated to New York where she collaborated and toured with some of the world's most renowned musicians including The Chieftains, Toninho Horta and Jeff Bova on his project THE HAMMONDS.

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Miyuki Hatakeyama

Miyuki Hatakeyama was born on August 18, 1972. She is a singer-songwriter from Kesennuma-shi, Miyagi prefecture.
She graduated from Utilizing high school .She is in charge of vocal in a 10 person formation band "Double Famous" and male and female unit Port of Notes. In addition, she made a solo debut in September, 2001. In the same year, she was also appointed "Ambassador Rias Marin Kesennuma." In 2016, she was also appointed as Ambassador Miyagi Kizuna. .

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