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Dienoji

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Dienoji is Japanese comedy duo by Yosuke Ochi and Nobuhiko Otani. They belong to Yoshimoto creative agency.
Yosuke Ochi is the leading world air guitarist.
In 2005, they weren't offered many jobs as the comedy duo Dienoji, so they started organizing a DJ event called Giant Night. DJ event started planning and producing since December 2005 when Giant Night appeared the first time by founder of the festival at COUNTDOWN JAPAN FESTIVAL. In the event, Otani plays DJ and Ochi and other comedians join as performers.

In 2006, the air guitar Japan competition came out lively, Ochi won the world championship. The championist had a chance to perform at DJ party. He appeared in NHK Kohaku Utagawa Battle Battle 2006 and he also continued at the 2007 World Electric Guitar World Competition, Dienoji appeared at SUMMER SONIC.

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Ayaka

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Ayaka Iida (飯田 絢香 , Iida Ayaka, born December 18, 1987) , known mononymously as Ayaka, is a female Japanese singer, songwriter and record producer formerly signed to Warner Music Japan. Born in Osaka, she moved to Tokyo to pursue a singing career. She married actor Hiro Mizushima on February 22, 2009. In January 2006, Ayaka recorded "I Believe" as the opening theme for the Japanese drama Rondo. The full single was first released as a download-only single and went on to become one of the fastest songs to reach 1,000,000 downloads, as well as becoming the 3rd-highest-selling download debut single for a female artist.

Ayaka's second single "Melody (Sounds Real)" peaked at number 14 on the Oricon charts has gone on pass the 20,000 mark.

"Real Voice" was Ayaka's third single and was used as the ending theme to the Japanese drama Suppli. "Blue Days", the b-side from "Melody (Sounds Real)", was also used as an insert song for the show. "Real Voice" was released on July 17, 2006, and has sold over 50,000 copies.

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Shikao Suga

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Shikao Suga (スガ シカオ Shikao Suga, born July 28, 1966) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo known for writing the theme songs for several anime, movies and commercial ads. His name in kanji is 止戈男. He uses katakana as his professional name.

"Yozora no Mukō", the song he wrote the lyrics to, and was sung by SMAP, has appeared in several Japanese music textbooks. Both SMAP's "Yozora no Mukō" (1998) and KAT-TUN's "Real Face" (2006) either debuted at or reached quickly the top spot in the Oricon charts, and sold over 1 million units each. (夜空ノムコウ) (Japan Top Singles)

Several of his songs have been used in anime television series and live action dramas and movies adapted from manga. Honey and Clover included songs from his album "Clover", like "Hachigatsu no Serenade", "Tsuki to Knife" and "Yubikiri". The song "Manatsu no Yoru no Yume" has appeared in the first Death Note live action movie as an insert song. His song "Yūdachi" was used as the closing theme for the movie Boogiepop and Others, and as the opening theme for the 2000 anime series Boogiepop Phantom. "Hajimari no Hi" was used as the first opening theme to Letter Bee , and after a year and three months, he released "Yakusoku", which would be the opening for the "Letter Bee" sequel, Letter Bee Reverse. In 2019's live action adaptation of the manga "Yotsuba ginkō Harashima Hiromi ga mono mōsu!~ Kono hito (on'na) ni kakero ~", his song "Tōi yoake" would be the first song he's written as a theme song for a TV Tokyo dorama.

He also did the theme songs to the XXXHOLiC anime series from CLAMP, including its movie xxxHOLiC: Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (Sanagi ~theme from xxxHOLiC the movie~), its first TV series season (Jūkyū-sai), and from "XXXHOLiC Kei", its second season (Nobody Knows). "Sofa" was the song used in the OVA "xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki" in February 17, 2009. In February 2013, XXXHOLiC live action drama started on WOWOW, and Suga's "Aitai" was used as its opening theme song. In 2015, CLAMP made the drawings for the music video for "あなたひとりだけ せになることは されないのよ" (Anata hitori dake shiawase ni naru koto wa yurusarenai no you, also known as "Anayuru"), including in it images of characters from "XXXHOLiC", to celebrate his debut anniversary.

His songs have also been included in non-manga movies, like Dark Water ("Aozora") and Sweet Little Lies ("Ame agari no asa ni"), as well as countless of TV ads, like those of insurance agency Sony Sompo, and some car brands and housing businesses.

In Gintama, his name has been mentioned on episode 115, and his song "Progress" has been included in a parody in the series' "Shirogane no Tamashii" arc 2nd season's episode 9. "Progress" has also been included in a parody in episode 69 of Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Animation.

His name has also been included in Haruki Murakami's novel After dark, with reference to his song "Bakudan juice".(バクダンジュース)

He is involved in the poster campaign for Chica Umino's seinen manga series, March Comes in Like a Lion with Anne Watanabe. His song "Kizashi" was used in the commercial ad for the manga, and has appeared in it, as requested by Umino herself.

For Suga's 2013 album "Aitai", the cover and artist photo was made by Photographer and Film Director Mika Ninagawa
Shikao Suga Asia Circuit 2017 in Tokyo

As for his trips, in 2009 he made his first trip overseas, to London. It was to be the first time he appeared before a non-Japanese audience.
September 2017 he made his official first appearance in the American Continent, participating in the Greenroom Festival in Hawaii, which he repeated the following year
December 2017 he made his first trip within Asia, visiting Singapore on the 8th and Taiwan on the 17th, under the tour named "Shikao Suga Asia Circuit 2017". On the 26th of December he ends the tour in the city of Tokyo.

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Hanaregumi

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Hanaregumi is a Japanese solo unit by vocalist Takashi Nagasa (Japan's funk band SUPER BUTTER DOG, Nagasu Takashi, real name Eiki Takashi, November 27, 1974). After graduating from Liberty Mori Gakuen High School, he graduated from vocational school Tokyo Music & amedia; Media Arts Naomi. Begin playing with an acoustic guitar around the second year of high school.

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Salyu

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Salyu (サリュ , Saryu, born October 13, 1980) is a Japanese singer, produced by Takeshi Kobayashi. She debuted in 2000 as the fictional singer Lily Chou-Chou for the film All About Lily Chou-Chou, and later debuted as a solo artist in 2004. She is best known for her charity single collaboration with Bank Band in 2006, "To U." Salyu has also worked as a voice actress for the Japanese-language version of the game Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (2007), in which she voiced the character Mrs. Rose (known as Babette in the English version). In 2011, Salyu embarked on a new solo project going by the name salyu × salyu.

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SPECIAL OTHERS

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Special Others is a Japanese band that blends improvised jazz with post-rock influences. Their lyrics, on non-instrumental songs, mix English and Japanese words, often extraordinarily exemplify: difficult to decipher.

The members of the band met in high school and formed the group in 1995. They began performing in earnest in 2000, and their first major release, Indy-Ann, remained in the CRJ-tokyo charts for seven weeks.

Their first release on NMNL Records was the EP Ben which entered the Tower Records Shibuya indie chart at No. 1, and No. 2 in the national Tower Records chart. After releasing their second EP, Uncle John in June 2005. The band played at the Fuji Rock Festival in July.

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Hirokazu Ogura

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Hirokazu Ogura (小倉博和 Hirokazu Ogura, born January 28, 1960) musician from Takamatsu. His interest in playing the guitar started in High School.

He has worked as a professional artist since 1982 as a guitarist and as a sound producer. His list of contacts includes Fujii Fumiya, UA, Rie Eto, Keisuke Kuwata, Taeko Onuki, Hiroshi Matsuda, Misia, Salyu, KinKi Kids, Mr.Children, Shikao Suga, among others.

In 2006 he was part of a special group called Kokua, formed to sing the theme song to an NHK documentary. In 2016, the members of Kokua reunited to celebrate the release of that original single, Progress, and worked on the official 1st album for the group and a Nationwide tour, both named Progress.

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Naoto Nakamura

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Naoto Nakamura (中村 直人 Nakamura Naoto), better known by his stage name Naoto Inti Raymi is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He initially debuted with Sony in 2001 under the stage name Naoto, however rose to fame in 2010. He is also known for being a radio personality on bayfm in 2005, and for his travel diary Sekai yo Odore, published in 2006. "Inti Raymi" is Quechuan (Incan language) for "festival of the sun.

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Kameda Seiji

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Seiji Kameda (亀田誠治 , Kameda Seiji, born June 3, 1964) is a Japanese music producer, arranger and bass guitarist. He has worked extensively with Ringo Shiina, serving as her producer and touring bassist for many years, including his tenure with their band Tokyo Jihen from 2005 to 2012.

In 1999, he participated in the production of Ringo Shiina's first and second album as an arranger, and they were big hits. Because of those hits, he received many commissions to produce music. That started his great success. Since then he has been producing for musicians and bands like Spitz, Ken Hirai, Shikao Suga, Do As Infinity, Angela Aki, and others. He also participates in many musicians' recordings as a session bassist, or plays a bass guitar as a member of various solo singers' tour bands, or temporary bands like Bank Band (2005–present). From May 2 to 3, 2009, Kameda gathered many artists who were related with him, and promoted the music festival "Kame no Ongaeshi."

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Takehara Pistol

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Takehara Pistol (December 27, 1976 -) is a Japanese punk singer, guitarist, actor. He is from Chiba city, Chiba prefecture. He graduated from Faculty of Social Welfare, Dojo University.
He is a member of former club and acts as a solo after dissolution. As an actor, he appeared in the movies, mainly directed by Kumira Kazuwa.
In 1999, he formed Folk Band Wild Zen with Hamano Hirokka who he met when he was at university. He made a major debut in 2003.
He acted in 2006 movie "Youth Metal Bat" and started acting career.
On May 9, 2009, he announced the dissolution of Yuzen Zen and started working as a solo musician.
In 2016, he appeared in the movie "Long Excuse" and received the 90th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Support Actor Award, the 40th Japan Academy Award Excellence Support Actor Award.
On November 16, 2017, it was announced that he participated in the 68th NHK Koharu singing fight in the white group on December 31.

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Takahashi Yu (singer-songwriter)

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Yu Takahashi (高橋 , Takahashi Yū, born December 26, 1983) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. He debuted on a major label in 2010, with his singles "Subarashiki Nichijō" and "Honto no Kimochi".

Takahashi grew up in Yokote, Akita, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. He started to learn the electric guitar in his final year of middle school, and in high school became the vocalist of a hardcore copy band for two years, performing such songs as Hide with Spread Beaver's "Pink Spider". During high school, he bought a cheap acoustic guitar, and began writing songs. His band broke up as the members went their separate ways, and Takahashi moved to Sapporo to attend a university. He performed in a band in Sapporo as well, however, due to the band dissolution (one member's love life took priority) Takahashi decided to become a solo musician.

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Udai Shika

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Udai Shika is a Japanese cellist, born in 1966 in Tokyo. He began with cello from 10 years old. He enrolled in the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra from 1988 until 1991.
He used to join the pop band BREW-BREW and released 3 albums.
After that, he participated in recording, live, movie / CM music production of many artists .
In recent years, Udai Shika is active in the session group "The NO PROBLEM's" centered on Konosaku of MONGOL 800.

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Mr. Kazuhisa Sakurai (Mr. Children)

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Kazutoshi Sakurai (桜井 和寿 Sakurai Kazutoshi, born 櫻井 和寿, March 8, 1970 in Tokyo) is a Japanese musician. He composes and writes almost all of the songs for his band Mr. Children, in addition to writing lyrics and singing for his solo project group Bank Band. In 2006, Sakurai ranked #8 in HMV's "Top 30 Best Japanese Singers of All Time" and in 2007 was voted #4 as the "ideal father image" by Oricon. Also, in 2009, he was chosen as one of the Young Global Leaders in World Economic Forum. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded AP Bank, where he personally provided 1 million dollars of seed money to launch and fund the nonprofit lending group which finances environmentally friendly projects.

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Takeshi Kobayashi (Music Producer)

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Takeshi Kobayashi (小林 武史 , Kobayshi Takeshi) (born June 7, 1959), is a Japanese keyboardist, lyricist, composer, arranger, and record producer.

Kobayashi started his professional career in the late 1970s. After working in the backing bands for singers such as Yosui Inoue, Misato Watanabe, and Anri, he came into prominence as a musical collaborator for the Southern All Stars frontman Keisuke Kuwata's eponymous 1988 solo album.

Kobayashi has written several film scores, including Swallowtail (1996) and All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001). Not only composing music, he also directed the film Bandage (2010).

In addition to his career as a musician, Kobayashi has also worked as a social activist and a philanthropist. Along with Grammy-winning producer Ryuichi Sakamoto and Mr.Children's chief singer-songwriter Kazutoshi Sakurai, he established a non-profit organization called AP Bank in 2003. Kobayashi and Sakurai have formed the charity supergroup Bank Band since 2004, and have released three albums and two singles to date.

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Tomoyasu Kawamura

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Tomoyasu Kawamura (Kawamura Noriyasu, May 3, 1960) is a drummer and studio musician from Tokyo. He is the drummer of Takako Shirai and CRAZY BOYS. He became a popular drummer in the latter half of the 1990s as a support musician in various top musicians albums and tours such as Keisuke Kuwata, Masaharu Fukui, Fumiya Fuji, Shingo Ringo, Kyosuke Himuro, Sukima Switch, Hideaki Tokunaga, Yumi Matsutoya.

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Takuo Yamamoto (Studio and musician belonging to CUBE)

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Taku Yamamoto (Yamamoto Takuo, October 10, 1961 -) is a Japanese saxophonist, flute player, studio musician, arranger and music producer. Born in Tokyo, Japan in October 10, 1961.

Besides saxophone, multi-lead player playing flute and clarinet. It is a novel brass arrangement, flexible and wide playability musician that can deal with various musical characteristics regardless of genre, and has kept numerous impressive play at J Pop. For example, Mr. Children's "Interlude of the Seesaw Game ~ Brave Love Song ~". He also works not only as a player but also as arranger and sound producer.

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Jimi Hendrix

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James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone altering effects units, such as fuzz tone, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe in mainstream rock. He was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

Hendrix's music has received a number of Hall of Fame Grammy awards, starting with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992, followed by two Grammys in 1999 for his albums Are You Experienced and Electric Ladyland; Axis: Bold as Love received a Grammy in 2006. In 2000, he received a Hall of Fame Grammy award for his original composition, "Purple Haze", and in 2001, for his recording of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower". Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was honored with a Grammy in 2009.

The United States Postal Service issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring Hendrix in 2014.

On August 21, 2016, Jimi Hendrix was officially inducted into the R&B Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Tokyo Tanaka

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Tokyo Tanaka is the vocalist of MAN WITH A MISSION.

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This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ayaka", "Salyu", "Dienoji", "Hanaregumi", "Shikao Suga", "Kameda Seiji", "Jimi Hendrix", "Tokyo Tanaka", "SPECIAL OTHERS", "Hirokazu Ogura", "Naoto Nakamura", "Takehara Pistol", "Tomoyasu Kawamura", "Takahashi Yu (singer-songwriter)", "Takeshi Kobayashi (Music Producer)", "Mr. Kazuhisa Sakurai (Mr. Children)", "Takuo Yamamoto (Studio and musician belonging to CUBE)", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
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