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TOSHI
Toshi is a healing music artist and a current lead singer of a legendary Japanese rock band X JAPAN. Не was born in 1965 in Tateyama, Chiba, Japan. Toshi has a very beautiful voice that goes over about three octaves. Не started his solo career in 1993 when he was still an active member of X JAPAN before their Last Live. Toshi left the group in 1997 when it was at its fulll bloom. In the same year, he released an album, "Beautiful Love Song" , which showed a change of his music style, from a rock star to a healing music artist. Toshi also started giving more than 2,500 concerts at such places as concert halls, schools, various local events, etc. all over Japan on a tour called "Uta tabi". Along with these regular concerts, he also held charitable concerts at facilities such as homes for the old, the handicapped and the abused children, prisons, reformatories, hospices, and similar institutions, since 2001, which numbered more than 8,000 places where he gave heartfelt healing moments to a great number of audiences. Such steady and honest activities of Toshi were often taken up by the media. Having continuously performed songs composed by MASAYA, which Toshi happened to find and felt deeply healed while he was in difficult times, for the people of all walks of life and and in various situations, he says, "I have seen so many people shed tears to hear my songs for as long as 8 years, and I sincerely feel it is such a blessing and a great pleasure for me. I think, to heal other people is to heal myself." Toshi ended his 8-year-long nationwide tour of Utatabi in the spring of 2007, and started doing major activities as a healing music artist. In October 22, 2007, there was an announcement of a reunion of X JAPAN. Toshi joined the group's 3 consecutive shows held in the last days of March, '08 at Tokyo Dome where 150,000 fans gathered from over the world. Toshi released special best albums of the healing music which recorded his footsteps of the past 10 years and consecutively released such albums as "EARTH IN THE DARK - to the blue sky", "ERA (JIDAI)" and "Beautiful World". Having a similar theme to such beautiful healing music, but as a rather different music style, Toshi organized a new band called "Toshi with T-EARTH" in June, '08.
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Rick Bogart Trio With Louisa Lee At Toshi's Living Room - Free Every Tuesday
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Rick Bogart Trio With Singer Louisa Lee FREE Every Tuesday 7pm-10pm Toshi's Living Room! Appearing Weekly at Toshi's Living Room! 1141 Broadway at W. 26th St. 7:00pm- 10:00pm Reservations are suggested. Please call 917-432-8810. Toshi's is a lovely venue in the Flatiron Hotel. There is no cover and just a one drink minimum. And of course, you can enjoy The Rick Bogart Trio every Saturday and Sunday at ...
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Beacon Jazz Festival To Feature World-Class Jazz, Hudson Valley Distilleries And More At Pete And Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park - Saturday, July 25, 12 To 6pm
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James Keepnews
BEACON, NY — Celebrating the music, distilleries, artisan crafts, community and culture of the Hudson Valley, the inaugural Beacon Jazz Festival will take place on Saturday, July 25 from noon to 6 PM at The Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park in Beacon, NY. Presented by Six String Productions, the festival will offer a wealth of musical talent, many with long associations with Beacon and the surrounding region. In addition to presenting great jazz, the first Beacon Jazz Festival will ...
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