In Japan “TOKU”is the only flugel horn player who is also well known as a jazz singer. He was born 1973 in Niigata where he started to play the flugel horn while in junior highschool. As a high school and college student he played pop music in a cover band. He was discovered by a jazz drummer who heard his play Miles Davis’ “If I were a bell” at a college festival.
He was later invited to a jam session where he became deeply inspired by jazz. In August 2000 he made his debut at the “Blue Note Tokyo”. In January 2001 his 2nd album “Bewitching” was released as well as mini LP “Winds of Change” which contained two tracks written by Kyohei Tsutsumi. In June 2002 John Simon produced Toku’s 3rd album “Chemistry of Love”. He further established himself as a jazz singer throughout Japan by singing
“You are so beautiful” for a Hitachi TV commercial and also “Do-Re-Mi” for Honda’s Odyssey ad campaign.
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