Born on September 4,1961 in Kobe,Japan. Blood type:A

-- He moved to Tokyo in 1984,and released his first album as a drummer of a funk band"AFRICA" from King Records in 1985. He has joined many tours and recordings of various artists as a drummer.
...f.e...Morio Agata,Akino Arai,Mayumi Itsuwa,Junichi Inagaki,Masanori Ikeda,Senri Oe,Yasuyuki Okamura,Yoko Oginome,Yuji Oda,Izumi Kato,Midori Karashima,Kawamura Kaori,Katsumi,Kleizler&CoAPsy's,Something Else,Hideki Saijo,Kumi Shoji,Takako Shirai,Ranran Suzuki,Keiichi Suzuki,Makoto Sekiguchi,Masahiro Takashima,Yumi Tanimura,Naomi Tanimura,Diamond-Yukai,Chulip,Chaka-to-konchusaishu,Mariko Tone,Meiko Nakahara,Mariko Nagai,Bubblegum Bros.,Aki Hano,Billy-banban,Believe,Begin,Eri Hiramatsu,Ryouko Hirosue,Naoyuki Fujii,Satomi Fukunaga,Masaharu Fukuyama,Yu Mizushima,Hajime Mizoguchi,Arisa Mizuki,Yuko Miyamura,Reimi,etc,etc,etccAND SO IT GOES.





born on January 18, Osaka,Japan. blood type:A

--During his junior high school years,he was crazy about an apparatus gymnastics.
So at that time his future dream was to become a physical education teacher.
But, in the third year of junior high, he saw The Beatles' movie "A Hard Day's Night"&"Help" on TV. These movies had opened his eyes to the music, and changed his life. After that he was strongly absorbed in music,and began playing electric bass.
After graduated from high school,he did many gigs,formed many bands around the area Osaka or Kyoto as a bassist. But no big chance was there. So,to make his own living, he was forced to play in the nightclubs,discothques,hotels.
He moved to Tokyo in 1985 or so.
In Tokyo, he has joined many recordings or tours of the artists such as TOM™CAT,Yuko Ishikawa,WOOD,Hiroaki Igarashi,Yoko Minamino,Hiro Takahashi,Jiro Sugita,Hirofumi Banba,Kaoru Hyuga,Kiria Matsuda,Kazuhito Miura..e.t.c. as a bassist.
In 1990,he also started his own band named "Frogg&Trippers" in which he sings his original songs and aims to express his own musical ideas.
Now in "Fishing Persons",as a bassist& composer(sometimes vocalist),he enjoys playing bass,another kind of music from "Frogg&Trippers",and making friends with many other musicians(?!).





Born on August 13,1961 in Ibaragi Prefeture,Japan. Blood type:B

-- He started his training of piano at age three and guitar at twelve.
With a friend's reputation for being the best guitarist in his junior high school,he believed the guitar must be his axe.
But in high school,he encountered a guy who played the guitar much better than he.
He changed his mind,gave up the guitar and started playing the keyboard instead.
He moved to Tokyo in 1981,and joined many gigs,recordings of various artists as a keyboard player. At the present he is mostly busy with arrangement.
He mainly takes charge of S.E.(sound effect)in Fishing Persons(he says).





Born on March 11,1962 in Kobe ,Japan. Bood type:A

-- When in elementary school,he was absorbed in listening to foreign pops on radio program.
In junior high school, he became crazy about folk songs which attrated the young people at that time,and started playing the guitar.
After that he has played his guitar in variety of styles such as progressive rock,hard rock, jazz,funk music, and so on.
He moved to Tokyo in 1989.
He played in the concerts, recordings and sessions as a support musician(guitarist) for many Japanese famous artists,such as Kenji Sawada, Akira Fuse...e.t.c..
He took charge of arrangements of Toshio Osawa,Osamu sakata.
He provided musical scores for the documentary films on NHK,and other educational programs on TV.
Not only as a guitarist,but he also is active in composing and arranging songs nowadays.





Born on March 4, 1959 Pisces Bood type:A

-- Started playing piano at age 4,but was often ran away from the lessons.
Because had no interest in music in his childfood. He would rather drawing than music.
However he was all at once obsessed by a series of so called "easy-listening"records when he was in sixth grade of elementary school. ( Was it because of a magic of the age of puberty? Maybe he was just on the brinks of ceasing to be a little boy ...) The records were presented by his mother for him.
At that time he was most fascinated with movie soundtracks and The Beatles. In elementary school,he was a member of a team making cell animation led by his school teacher.
And the futuristic movie(animation) "Yellow Submarine" and its design shocked him.
(It was designed by Heinz Edelman ,one of the great artists and was an emblematic of that time)
He began collecting the records of Beatles,and that was the entrance of music in his life. (after many twists and turns untill he was over 20, he started playing saxophone)
When he was a junior in university,he started taking lessons of saxophone by a mere accident.
He got his first job as a saxophonist at Honda Theater when he was a senior at univ.
After that he experienced several activities such as a saxophonist in tours, as a composers of a TV jingle, sometimes went abroad as a member of a free-jazz group, and sometimes as a member of pop group.
He played variety of styles,and still in the middle of his twisted-and -turned life of music.