I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.
HiromiMy biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage.
HiromiI am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.
HiromiThe first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. I can't bend the piano sound. I really like the feel behind it. I feel it adds flavour and character to my music.
HiromiA child isnโt born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Letโs just say that when I realized that I didnโt want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you canโt go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.
Hiromi