Kooryo Ito was born on December 3, 1972 in Fukuoka. He started playing the drums when he was 20 years old. After he graduated from high school, he went on to a professional music school. He went abroad to study at a professional music school in Los Angeles, USA. He studied various musical styles throughout this period with a lot of musicians there. After returning to Japan, he mostly played around the Kansai area. He moved back to Fukuoka in 1996, and traveled to all parts of Japan as a support artist for various tours. He’s an ambassador for Canopus, a drum company. Lately he’s been playing as a cajon, djembe, and conga percussionist. He also helps to develop teachers under an exclusive contract with the Fukuoka School of Music & Dance.

Tomoyuki Hirata started playing acoustic guitar when he was in junior high school. He listened to Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Yutaka Ozaki, and began to play in an HR/HM, R&B and funk band with electric guitars. A CD by his band was released by HMV and Tower Records nationwide. He started further band activities and worked as a supporting artist on live or recording work. Now he plays in Rue de Valse around the whole country and teaches at a music school. His guitar technique is widely renowned among musicians.

Photo: Tetsu Shirahashi (Nagano Syouten creative)

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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 had Desk Top Music and voice training at a music school, and he wrote the theme songs of a nationwide event. In 2002 he planned a live event, "The Phenomenal Live Show vol.2 : A Little Positivism", which was merged a live show with fictional FM radio program live on. He performed at the Fukuoka Dome as a backup keyboardist in some musical group, and he established "Nagano Syouten creative" in 2003. He quit performing live after "live Live Bride," which he planned and produced on Blue Note Fukuoka 2004. 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. One of his clients reached No.1 on the hit chart and was a million seller from 2008 after his site was renewed. 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. In addition, he organized his team into three categories - music, design, and movies. They’re the main works of Nagano Syouten Creative, and he’s expanding his network worldwide 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)
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Avan started playing electric bass when he was in high school ; he organized a rock band and played at a live house in Fukuoka- City, he began to study wood bass under Fumio Tashiro and Hajime Niwa.He’s a song writer, too, for instance, he composed "Blue Star," as a duo name with Takashi Kudo, a pro jazz pianist, and "Free Dub", and "A Boy and the Crescent Moon," which were included on the pro jazz guitarist Satoru Uchiyama's second album. His works are unconventional.He’s currently in bands "Avan Quartette", "Avan Trio", "Trio D.N.A," and "How Happy, the last of which is his regular group. He also plays on rock and jazz of various genres. In 2013, he held his first vocal live show at the Jazz Inn New Combo in Fukuoka- City.

Photo: Tetsu Shirahashi (Nagano Syouten creative)

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Takako Uemura was born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. She started playing the organ at four years old and the electronic organ at six. In junior high school, she was in the brass band and played clarinet to enhance her musical abilities, such as her musical sense. She developed her flexible musicality, including interests in classical, pop, rock, and jazz, at that time. After graduation from junior college, she worked as a music teacher and played the electronic organ at a lot of events. It earned her a good reputation. She played for professional bands when she was about 30 years old. She’s now a member of the Delicious Four, Takami Asano's TAGC-Fukuoka (with the guitarist Godiego). She’s also played with a lot of musicians who are famous nationwide. She’s working hard with a broad range of musicians. She sometimes plays gently and sensitively, and sometimes emotionally; her style is very popular. Her perfect pitch and handle of any situation led to her being trusted by various kinds of musician.