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Rika Ishikawa , is a Japanese pop singer and TV/radio hostess, associated with the Hello! Project banner and best known as a former member of the pop... group Morning Musume. She was the leader of the trio v-u-den until June 2008. She is working as a soloist, a member of the group Ongaku Gatas, in the duo Hangry & Angry as Angry, and as a current member of Dream Morning Musume. Ishikawa joined Morning Musume as a fourth generation member along with Hitomi Yoshizawa, Nozomi Tsuji, and Ai Kago, and made her debut in 2000 along with the rest of the fourth generation on the band's tenth single, "Happy Summer Wedding". In 2001, simultaneously with her Morning Musume obligations, Ishikawa became a featured member of the then-semi-dormant Hello! Project group Country Musume and a second-generation member of Morning Musume's first subgroup, Tanpopo. She also participated in her first shuffle group recording, 3-nin Matsuri, with fellow Morning Musume/Tanpopo member Ai Kago and solo singer Aya Matsuura .
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Yosuke Kubozuka is a male Japanese actor born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. He graduated from Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School . Yosuke is married... and has one son. Yosuke Kubozuka has been a model for many magazines and TV commercials before starting out his acting career where he debuted in a 1995 TV crime drama Kindaichi Case Files. In 1998, he starred in the TV series GTO as the role of an honors student, 菊池善人 Kikuchi Yoshito. In 2000, he starred in Ikebukuro West Gate Park aka IWGP as Andoh Takashi. In 2001, he starred in Strawberry on the Shortcake along with other popular young artists such as Hideaki Takizawa and Kyoko Fukada. In the drama he took the role of being Kyoko Fukada's first love. In 2001, GO! was officially released for evaluation and this production describes the love story of a young Korean boy living in Japan. The film portrays the day to day challenges faced by foreigners living in Japan. For his performance in this role, Yosuke took home two awards during the Japan Oscar Awards.
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Ichiro Ito is a guitarist in the Japanese rock band Every Little Thing. He is also known as Ikkun by fans. Ichiro also works in composition and,... sometimes, arrangement of some of ELT's songs.
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Alex de Grassi is an American Grammy Award-nominatedfingerstyle guitarist. Though born in Yokosuka, Japan, de Grassi grew up in San Francisco,... California, where his grandfather played violin for the San Francisco Symphony and his father was a classical pianist. At age thirteen he learned to play the trumpet but soon taught himself the guitar, the instrument for which he is now famous. De Grassi has since learned jazz piano with Mark Levine and also studied music under W. A. Mathieu and Bill Thrasher. After earning a degree in Economic Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, de Grassi performed as a street musician in London before learning the carpentry trade from his cousin Will Ackerman who later founded the innovative instrumental record label Windham Hill. De Grassi's first album, Turning: Turning Back, was released by Windham Hill Records in 1978. De Grassi also recorded under RCA/Novus, EarthBeat!, and 33rd Street recordings. In addition, de Grassi started his own label, Tropo Records, which he now records under.
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Marcus Thomas is an American football defensive tackle for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League . Thomas played college football for... the University of Florida, and thereafter, he has played professionally for the Broncos. Thomas was born in Yokosuka, Japan. He attended Mandarin High School in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was an all-state high school football player for the Mandarin Mustangs. Thomas accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Urban Meyer's Florida Gators football team from 2003 to 2006. In November 2006, he was kicked off the team for violating the terms of his reinstatement from a drug suspension. He missed curfew, went on an unapproved out of town trip, and skipped a mandatory drug counseling session. Thomas was an anthropology major. On April 29, Thomas was picked 121st in the 2007 NFL draft by the Denver Broncos. On July 11, Thomas signed a 4-year contract with the club worth a reported $3 million.
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Hideto Matsumoto , known exclusively by his stage name hide , was a popular Japanese visual kei rock musician. He was primarily known for his work as... lead guitarist of the heavy metal band X Japan from 1987 to 1997. He was also a successful solo artist and co-founder of the United States based band Zilch. hide was born in St. Joseph's Hospital in Midorigaoka, Japan, on December 13, 1964 and went on to attend Yokosuka Tokiwa Junior High School. He was first exposed to rock music at the age of fifteen, through the album Alive II by Kiss. That same year his grandmother bought him his first electric guitar, a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe. On March 11, 1980, hide graduated from Tokiwa Junior High School. He then entered Zushi Kaisei Senior High School in Zushi, Kanagawa, where he entered the school's brass band as a club activity. He quit the band after a short time because he was assigned the clarinet while he wanted to play the trumpet. After this, he concentrated on guitar and in 1981 formed the band Saber Tiger.
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