Bro.KORN (real name: Nobuaki Kondo, 1955) is a male singer and television talent in Japan, born in Suginamiku, Tokyo.
He appeared the first time as an impersonator in TV show "Tabidase Imamune Daisakusen ( Fuji TV )" at the Shinjuku Central Park.
In 1991, "WILL NOT BE LONG" become his big hit and was first performed in "42nd NHK Red and White Singing Contest".
After that, he participated in the NHK Kohaku Utagane Battle, and received Wired Grand Prize, TBS Music Festival Newcomer Award in the FNS Song Festival and fulfilled the nationwide tour with Kubota Toshinobu and Funker Hips.
Currently, he has focused on solo activities and participates in Suzuki Masayuki, Gospellers, Scoop on Samba dei and annual 'SOUL POWER SUMMIT', etc,.
Nobuo Yagi is a harmonica player, born in Tokyo in 1952, he started playing the diatonic harmonica at the age of 14.
He taught himself the diatonic harmonica. As a teenager, he was influenced by such artists as John Lennon, Paul Butterfield, John Mayall, Sonny Boy Willamson, John Coltrain, Eric Dolphy, Nina Simone to name a few.
At the age of 20, he devoted their years to studying the chromatic harmonica under Japanese renowned Joe Sakimoto.
His Professional career Started at the age of 22 as a studio musician.
In 1978, he recorded his first album "Mi Mi Africa" on the Victor invitation label, and he also released "Harmonica Step" with popular guitar player Hiroshi Yasukawa, on the Atom records in Australia.
He received a special award from the all Japan Harmonica Association in 1979.
In 1980, he formed "the Curtis Creek Band" and four albums have been released; "Spirits"(1981), "Drftin"(1981), "Love Songs"(1982), "City Morning"(1984) on Warner-Pioneer Asylum Records.
In 1983, he appered on the popular TV show "Music Square".
In 1989, he wrote a diatonic harmonica instructional book.
As a studio musician, he has recorded more than 1000 albums, they include "Southern All Stars", Seiko Matsuda, Yumi Matsutoya, Masahiko Kondou, "Checkers" to name a few.
From in 1990, he has been a original member of "Roppongi Swamp Band", they play New Orleans Funk Music.
They have been appearing at hot night spot in tokyo, and touring all over Japan.
in 1992, he participated in the New Orleans recording session of June Yamagishi with Dr.Jhon. Art Neville, Toru Tsuzuki.
Naoko Tanaka was born in Kurume city, Fukuoa Prefecture, Japan in 1985. She began her classical training on the piano at the age of three. She graduated from Toho Gakuen University in 2006. During the University, She won the first prize at the Bulgarian International Music Competition. She performed piano at the Toho Gakuen Graduation Concert as a representative of kyushu and yamaguchi area.
After graduating in 2006, She began playing Jazz Piano and soon started to play with various Jazz musicians. She has joined and hosted many Jazz Sessions.
In 2009, she produced and recorded her first piano trio "Protean" album with bassist Naoyuki Seto And drummer Dan Yoshikawa.
In 2012, she started to play with bassist Koji Yasuda and drummer Yasunori Ando as her own trio "Tanaka Naoko Trio". In 2013, she made her debut in Shanghai. She has played the piano at JZclub in Shanghai
In 2015, she released her debut album "Memories "As Tanaka Naoko Trio and guests who are bassist Daiki Yasukagawa and trumpeter Yoshiro Okazaki. Her new album" Memories "includes seven her original songs.
Ichihara Hikari is a trumpet, flugelhorn and composer, born in 1982 in Tokyo, Japan.
She graduated from Seikei Gakuen with a unified primary through lower ad upper secondary school program where she started learning trumpet. When she used to belong to Brass band club in the lower secondary school.
Her major debut 1 st album "Ichiban No Shiawase" was released by Pony Canyon. In 2006, she released the second album "Sara Smile" and won "Gold dics prize" of swing journal magazine and "New star" of the 40th Jazz Dics Prize at the same time.
After that, she released a mass series of albums "Joy", "Move on", "Unity", Precioso" and achieved many big successes.
Taro Koyama (Kozuma Taro, September 22, 1965 -) is a jazz drummer, born in Sano city, Tochigi prefecture.
In 1984, He graduated from high school and went to Tokyo.
He participated in the trio band with Nishi Naoki (p) , Osamu Kawakami (b). Since the 1980s, he has worked as one of the leading jazz drummers in Japan.
In 1999, He moved to New York and continued his own art activities. In the same year, together with Yuji Tanaka (p) and Yosuke Inoue (b), he performed his first single "Light & amp; Shade". He returned to Japan in 2004 and released "drum genic" in 2005.
Samejima Hideki (April 19, 1955) is a Japanese musician, born in Osaka Prefecture.
He grew up in Kagoshima Prefecture from elementary school to high school. After graduating from the Osaka Municipal Crafts High School, he graduated from the Osaka University of Arts Department of Arts under the Department of Art Planning.
In 1977, he debuted as a professional bassist of Norio Norio & amp "Twist" . After the dissolution of Twist in 1981, he served as a support member of HOUND DOG.
In 1994, he formed SONS OF BLUES (then renamed THE SONS) with three others Ichiro, Yoshihiro Matsuura and Yoshihiro Johnny.
Currently he is active as a producer of The Sons and many other music activities.
Tanaka Asano (June 1, 1951) is a Japanese musician, guitarist of rock band "Godaigo".
He is responsible for aspects such as guitar, vocal, album jacket and the like in Godaigo. His brother Asano Ryoji also was a drummer for Godaigo for a while.
Currently, he focuses on his own solo career in Tokyo, continuing music activities led by young unit Gum 2 in Fukuoka. In that activity, He also performed at the instrument fair.
Recently, He participates as a sound composer of Atlas' Nintendo DS software "Megamonen Devil Devil Survivor".
Toki Eiji (Hanifumi, February 1, 1950 -) is a jazz saxophonist from Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. He plays Alto saxophone and soprano saxophone and is active in a wide range of genres including jazz, fusion, R & amp; B, Japanese pops.
After dropping out of Osaka College of Music, He joined the group of Isao Suzuki.
In 1985, he formed Chicken Shack with Junshū Yamagishi (Gt), Toru Suetagi (Key) and others. Six original albums were released before the activities stopped in 1991.
He was famous as one of the backing members of Tatsuro Yamashita and participated in Yamashita's tour from 1986 to 2011.
Nakazawa Nobuyoshi is a Japanese singer, songwriter and musician.
In 1995, He entered the department of sculpture at Kanazawa College of Art. In the live activity, he participated as a guitarist mainly in two bands, the first time he touched the so-called "BLACK MUSIC" such as New Soul, Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield, dance classics such as Earth Wind & Fire and Jackson Sisters.
In September 1996, He joined in Stevie Wonder's live "I want to sing myself!" and was greatly inspired and decided to drop out of college to become a professional musician.
In 1997, he started part-time job at "Roppongi Valentine." Here he meet lots of musicians and perform lots of sessions at "Valentine", "Alfie", "PIT-INN", "Koenji Girokiti" "Harajuku Crocodile", etc,.
In the autumn of 1999, He returned to Tokyo from the thought of "I want to sing my own songs" and start his composition career. Nakazawa released a mass of own compositions and participated many nationwide tours.
Toyama Yoshio (August 25, 1944 ) is a Japanese jazz trumpet player from Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, president of Japan Louis Armstrong Association.
In 1975, he formed "Dexy Saints with Yuio Toyama." He is also active at domestic live concerts and overseas jazz festivals.
From the opening of Tokyo Disney Land in 1983, until 2006, he appeared in Tokyo Disneyland as Parry Band, Royal Street Six. Yoko Toyama was named as "Japanese Sachimo" with a hoarse vocal.
Tokyo Funky Dolls is a female dance pop band in Japan under record label "FACES MUSIC llc".
They are girls from Tokyo and considered as Four Afro stars: KiYOMi - sound source production, tenor part, COKURi - Alto Part, MiKA - soprano part and choreography & dancer, MiSUZU - soprano part and dancer.
Tokyo Funky Dolls released a major debut 1st album "Tokyo Funky Dolls" including 13 songs.
They also participated in many nationwide tours and got reputation.
Kuniaki Shimizu (Kuniaki Shimizu, 1950 October 15, 2009 -) is a Japanese talent, singer, writer, adventurer, businessman born in Fukui Prefecture. Famous as the outdoor enthusiast. There is also a former international A-class road race rider. Agency guess Are Ne Ano office → hour life. Stage name is Kuniaki same Shimizu as the current time debut. At one time it had been changed to the real name of Shimizu KuniAkira.
Sister of Mayumi Hashimoto is a director advisor of the Book Off.
Fukui Prefecture Ono-gun Izumi (now Ono City) thinks. Fukui Prefectural Ono High School, Kyoto Sangyo University law degree.
In 1973, as "I Am Ne that" in combination with Nobuo Harada, debut in the "Song of Red Dragonfly". It was a big hit. "You Are Ne Ano" formed initially by more than one person in the organization, Tsurube Shôfukutei and his wife also was a member.
"You Are Ne that" era wrote the script, it was a position to lead the Harada also gay. I Are Ne that era was singing an obscene song beyond the broadcasting code or a string of jokes on the radio, but from adapted to be lifted from the family layer as a standard-bearer of the outdoors in the 1990s as described below, impersonator throne Akira Shimizu in the finals is a certain dance, such as show the scene blame when you volley the jokes had been completely changed (However, at the time of marriage for the third time to belong to his own office Akira one time Akira to a moderator deep friendship between the two, and so on).
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