05.12 (Sun)
Yuji Toriyama (guitar)
Yuji Toriyama produced and released his first solo album when he was at Keio University in 1981 and has since released fifteen solo albums. In 1996 he wrote the theme song of the TBS documentary about World Heritage called Sekai-Isan. The song’s title was The Song of Life. Since then he has kept releasing great works including the song Let Me Go, the theme of Fuji-sankei Classic Golf Tournament on Fuji Television. He formed the unit Pyramid with his high-school friends Akira Jimbo and Hirotaka Izumi and released five albums. The artists he has produced are Seiko Matsuda, Takuro Yoshida, Taro Hakase, Chara, Emiri Miyamoto, Fumiaki Miyamoto, Takeshi Ito, Ryota Komatsu, WeiWei Wuu, and many more covering a wide range of genres. Toriyama also produced soundtracks for animation including Street Fighter II Movie, the video game Kotesu-Sangokushi, and the films Genso Suikoden V, God’s Puzzle and Knut. In 2014 he established his own label Super Paw and energetically broadened his range of activities.... More Biography
Yuji Toriyama produced and released his first solo album when he was at Keio University in 1981 and has since released fifteen solo albums. In 1996 he wrote the theme song of the TBS documentary about World Heritage called Sekai-Isan. The song’s title was The Song of Life. Since then he has kept releasing great works including the song Let Me Go, the theme of Fuji-sankei Classic Golf Tournament on Fuji Television. He formed the unit Pyramid with his high-school friends Akira Jimbo and Hirotaka Izumi and released five albums. The artists he has produced are Seiko Matsuda, Takuro Yoshida, Taro Hakase, Chara, Emiri Miyamoto, Fumiaki Miyamoto, Takeshi Ito, Ryota Komatsu, WeiWei Wuu, and many more covering a wide range of genres. Toriyama also produced soundtracks for animation including Street Fighter II Movie, the video game Kotesu-Sangokushi, and the films Genso Suikoden V, God’s Puzzle and Knut. In 2014 he established his own label Super Paw and energetically broadened his range of activities.... More Biography