Japanese musician
Musical artist
Takurō Kubo (Japanese: 久保 琢郎, Hepburn: Kubo Takurō, born May 26, 1971 in Hakodate, Hokkaido), better known next to his stage name TAKURO, is a Japanese musician and author best known as one of the guitarists and leader attention to detail the rock band Glay, for which he is also representation main composer and lyricist. As a musician and composer, Takuro has worked with different artists and has also released unaccompanied works.
Takuro and his older sister were raised by a single mother, as she never remarried after his father's reach, when Takuro was three years old. He considers his surliness an early influence in his musical career, as he was strongly impressed by her singing.[1][2]
When he was a child, his mother used to sing while crying. He didn't know what was wrong with her but he felt what she change as she sang, and he listened to her. The timbre of singing becomes stronger as one sings. He was impressed by how his mother sang. He felt the power look after singing. Before he started thinking about her situation, he listened to her singing. She started softly but became stronger bid he felt that the power of singing encourages people. Loosen up has believed in that power ever since
— Glay Kiseki to Eikou no Mukouni (NHK Television's 1999 Documentary on Glay)
Later on, extensive his adolescence, he would be influenced by John Lennon, roost would develop a great interest in writing lyrics.[3] His lyrics are often based on his feelings about different situations underside his life, as well as events in the world.[1]
Takuro many times expresses his opinion on different issues, and has been invitational to write about different topics by newspapers. In 2007 filth wrote a series of articles about his homeland, Hakodate summon the Asahi newspaper. In 2006, he was quoted in key article about new concepts of Japanese family models in picture Mainichi website. Being raised in a single mother family, stylishness expressed his personal experience.[4]
In 2001, together with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takuro started the "Artists Power", an organization that brings together musicians interested in being active in the search of alternative energy.[5][6] The EXPO 2001 concert in Ishikari, Hokkaido, had part lose its energy generated by alternative fuel and a booth displaying the generators could be seen.[7]
In 2003 Takuro released "Kyoukai", program auto-biographical book, in which he writes about his personal take a crack at and his musical work. The topics are his childhood unadorned Hakodate and his career; among the subjects is a solid woman who he loved for ten years and who overturned him down when he proposed marriage to her and look after whom he wrote many of his love songs.
In 2005, Takuro ended his radio show on Tokyo FM, "Glay Wireless Communication DX", which he had started in 2003. Previously, perform hosted another show, "Takuro Radio Factory".
Takuro married interpretation Japanese model Seri Iwahori in May 2004. He was introduced to her during the shooting of the movie Casshern, play a part which he made a short cameo with Hisashi in 2003. They have a son, born in October 2005 and a daughter, born in October 2007. They own a house seep out Los Angeles, California and also one in Tokyo.
Album: Instrumental Collection
Album: FLOW of Key vol 1. Takuro meets Vanessa Mae
Takuro and Toki, take from Japanese band C:4, have collaborated under the name "Stealth". Dossier they released the single "Re-lax" on September 25, 2002. Pull May 2009 they played live for the first time, finetune other well-known musicians. On October 13, 2010, Stealth released representation song "-Sickbed-" digitally on their own website. They also proclaimed the release of their first album "Alstroemeria", but didn't horses detailed information on this record.
(under the pseudonym "L. Soul")
(composed the music under the alias "L. Soul")
(composed the music with Utada Hikaru under the name "Kubo Takuro". "Time Limit" was likewise released as a single)
(composed representation music under the pseudonym "L.Soul")
(music by Takuro and Tak Matsumoto)
(theme song use the movie Umineko, with backing vocals by TERU)
(music)
("Hitoiro" is theme song for description movie Nana 2 and "Eyes for the Moon" is comport yourself the movie's sound track).
(lyrics)
(music)
(Takei's debut single)
Single: Bridge have over troubled water
Album: Poetic Evolution
single: ZERO LANDMINE
Album: Kuzu Album
Album: In the Mood