Kazuhiro Fukui (福居 一大)

He learned Japanese traditional music under the influence of his father in youth.
Since he was 10 years old, he studied Tsugaru-Shamisen at the grand master, Tendai Fukui, of Fukui School and took a lot of stages with his Tsugaru-Shamisen performance.
He succeeded in "Kazuhiro Fukui" (the name of the master in Fukui School) when he was only 17 years old.
He won the champion title of the 3rd Japan Tsugaru-Shamisen Contest when he was 22 years old.

He performed in "FIFA World cup soccer 2002", "EXPO" in Aichi 2005", and many other events. And he also played with other category type musicians and overseas artists. Therefore he rose to fame as the Japanese Traditional musician.

In 2004 he started to project his play not only himself, but also with his band. He produced CD "GOLDFINGER", which consists of J-POP(Japanese popular)songs by his Tsugaru-Shamisen performance.

He has incorporated Rock Jazz, and any other category type music in his music style, and he has been applauded.
「GOLDFINGER」
WGCD-29101/¥3,000(Tax in)/include DVD

【CD】
1.RYDEEN 2.Megumi No Hito 3.Roman Hikou 4.Koi No fuhga 5.JUPITER 6.Katte Ni Shindobaddo 7.Giniro No Michi 8.Christmas Eve 9.Shimauta 10.Tsugaru Jonkarabushi

【DVD】
1.The solo of Kazuhiro(Tsugaru Jonkarabushi)
2.Making of "GOLDFINGER" recording

Kazuhiro Fukui performs 10 J-POP songs by his Tsugaru-Shamisen. There are many difficult technics of Tsugaru Shamisen. He plays a very fast phrase from "Christmas Eve" with ease.
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