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The Tomboys are a young 4-piece girl band from Kobe, Japan that take classic rock sensibilities and style and mash them up with modern-day pop music in a delightfully-sweet powerpop s’more that is taking Japan by storm!
History:
In 2011, a group of 8th grade girls formed a cover band called NoName to play songs by such artists as The 50 Kaitenz and SCANDAL. The next year they played in a cover band battle hosted by SCANDAL themselves. They totally killed it, and drummer Non took home the RINA prize!
After that brilliant performance, the girls went to study abroad for a year (and managed to gain 40 kilos between the four of them).
In 2013 they came back to Japan as 11th graders (and immediately went on a diet). They resumed their musical activities, dipping their toes into songwriting for the first time.
That November, all (some) of their dreams came true and they released their first record. That same winter, they once again battled opponents from all corners of the globe in the SCANDAL cover band contest, this time taking home the special judge’s prize for best band and as a bonus guitar-vocalist Tabata Hina snagged the HARUNA prize as well!
In 2014, after leaving a seriously big ... More Biography
History:
In 2011, a group of 8th grade girls formed a cover band called NoName to play songs by such artists as The 50 Kaitenz and SCANDAL. The next year they played in a cover band battle hosted by SCANDAL themselves. They totally killed it, and drummer Non took home the RINA prize!
After that brilliant performance, the girls went to study abroad for a year (and managed to gain 40 kilos between the four of them).
In 2013 they came back to Japan as 11th graders (and immediately went on a diet). They resumed their musical activities, dipping their toes into songwriting for the first time.
That November, all (some) of their dreams came true and they released their first record. That same winter, they once again battled opponents from all corners of the globe in the SCANDAL cover band contest, this time taking home the special judge’s prize for best band and as a bonus guitar-vocalist Tabata Hina snagged the HARUNA prize as well!
In 2014, after leaving a seriously big ... More Biography