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A keyboard player, computer manipulator, arranger, composer and producer. |
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Born on September 16th in Tokyo, JAPAN. |
She suffered an extreme kind of sound phobia, so her parents
persuaded her to learn how to play the piano to help get over it when she was
two years old. Though she entered the Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin (Toyo Eiwa girl's school)
kindergarten in Tokyo, she moved to Taiwan when she was 5 years old because of
her father's job. She became a famous pianist's pupil while she was there, and
the pianist began to think that she had an extraordinary talent as a performer.
When she was 8 years old, her family returned to Japan and she went back to Toyo
Eiwa Jogakuin and studied there until she graduating high school.
While she was a student, she sometimes participated in a band and often played
Burt Bacharach and Bossa, before becoming fascinated with playing other kinds
of music, as she had grown sick of playing only classical music.
A famous producer friend of hers, Masataka Matsutoya, helped her band at that
time, and he persuaded her to join the music circle run by Yamaha Ginza, and she
then started to participate in amateur concerts very often. One day, she accompanied
Yumiko Kokonoe on the piano, her first experience of playing with a professional
singer. Just after that, she was strongly affected by Pink Floyd's concert in
Hakone, saying their music fitted the nature of Hakone perfectly and it was like
'Air with colours'.
Though she went to Kunitachi college of Music and majored in piano after she graduated
high school, most of her teachers were only interested in classical music and
didn't allow her to play other kinds of music, so she started to go to An Music
school to study Jazz, where she was taught by Masahiko Sato and Kenji Enatsu (currently
Wong Winzan). At the same time, she also started to participate in a band, playing
at the American Army bases around Tokyo. After that, when Masataka Matsutoya produced
Yumi Arai (currently Yumi Matsutoya)'s first album and she was selected by him
for Yumi's backing band, 'Papalemon'. It was the start of her career as
a professional musician.
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1973-1976 |
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Yumi Arai's tour |
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1974 |
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Takuro Yoshida's concert in Tsumagoi |
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1974- |
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Keiko Maruyama's tour |
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1975- |
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Hi-fi set's tour |
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1976- |
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Kaze's tour |
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1978- |
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Yumi Matsutoya's tour |
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1978- |
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Masaki Ueda and Push & Pull's tour |
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1978 |
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Maumi Itsuwa's concert |
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1979- |
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Kousetsu Minami's tour |
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1980- |
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Miyuki Nakajima's tour |
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1982- |
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She took a break from live activities and started to focus on studio work. |
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1997-2001 |
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Junko Yagami's tour. She started to perform live again,
also doing sound production at the time. |
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2000- |
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Shoji Ise, Junko Yamamoto's tour |
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2000- |
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Eglite's live (Gt,Vocal:Mitsuo Nagai, Dr:Eiji Shimamura,
Bass:Hiroshi Sawada, Vi:Keisuke Ota, Sax:Toshihiko Furumura) . |
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She organised "System"(Gt,Synth:Makoto Matsushita,
Gt,Perc,etc:Yoshio Miyazaki) for new style ambient live. |
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2001, 2002, 2003 |
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Kosetsu Minami's tour |
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| She started to do more studio work than live
activities around 1978, and participated on thousands of albums, singles and commercials.
She purchased a synthesizer for her studio and became a pioneer among music manipulators.
She respected Hideki Matsutake (YMO) as the 'Father of Techno'.
She used to work as "Maki Tashiro" or "Maki" at that time.
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Album Participations |
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Chage & Aska, Miyuki Nakajima, Junko Yagami, Seiko Matsuda,
Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, Akina Nakamori, Akiko Wada, Hideki Saijo, Goro Noguchi, Toshihiko
Tahara, Masahiko Kondo, The Checkers, Anri, Candies, Bread & Butter, Eichi Otaki,
Mayumi Itsuwa, Ikue Sakakibara, Naoko Kawai, Shonentai, animated series"The Space
Battleship Yamato", and most of Kyohei Tsutumi's works. |
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She purchased a Fairlight for her house in 1983, and establishing
her private 24-channel studio, she started to work at home.
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Masterpiece |
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She produced the first public performance of the musical
'Cats' in Japan on the Fairlight, as well as providing music for amusement
parks, expositions and original film soundtracks.
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| Amusement parks : |
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Tokyo Disneyland, Lotte World in Korea, Toshimaen. |
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Tsukuba International Exposition, Okinawa exposition. |
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Touch (Toho), Nausicaa of Valley of Wind (Studio Ghibli),
Yuki no dansho (The literary fragment of the snow) (Toho). |
| Her Album : |
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Light House (Pony Canyon) |
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| She has been teaching basic music theory, composition and keyboard techniques for music composition at Mica
Music Laboratory, which was established by Masataka Matsutoya, since 1992. |
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