Tetsu Shirahashi had a broadcasting station audition in Fukuoka, and he got through to the second stage. At the same time, in 1994, his song was being played on Takahiro Matsumoto's FM radio show and Matsumoto admired the quality of his songs. He had an audition at Nippon Cultural Broadcasting the next year, and he got through to the final stage out of 2,000 people. Later he wrote the theme songs of a nationwide event. He performed at the Fukuoka Dome as a backup keyboardist in some musical group, and he established "Nagano Syouten creative" in 2003. He was involved in activities that helped to define the meaning of "expression" among sound, design and film. After that he has focused on his sound works to the present date. In 2006 the DVD "photologue scenes" which he produced, edit, designed and featured Yukie Nishimura, was released. He won through to the final selection in the Marvel Japan agency web design competition in 2006. After that he did a lot of web design and worked as a system architect in CMS at a major restaurant (Fukuoka), a major publishing company (Tokyo), a public community (Tokyo), major company and a major jazz club (Tokyo), although he lives and acts locally in Fukuoka. Recently, he actively took part in the renewal of a web design presentation for a major fashion magazine, and he designed a campaign site for a global beer company on the basis of "Act Local, Think Global," which is the slogan for Nagano Syouten Creative. He restarted performing live with his musical team at Jazz Inn New Combo (Fukuoka), an old jazz house, on 18th April 2015.

Hair Make Up: Yuki Noda
Assistant For Kidera Kazumichi: Hiromasa Matsumoto (FU. Design & Photo)
Photo: Kazumichi Kdera (FU. Design & Photo)

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