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ONE OK ROCK

ONE OK ROCK is a Japanese Rock band formed in the summer of 2005. It was started by Toru with High School friends Alex and Ryota after each of them got their musical instruments. After that, Taka joined as their vocalist and they focused on performing shows in the Tokyo area. In 2006 they independently released 2 mini albums. Because of their albums sales, their participation in relatively large festivals that summer and their energetic shows in the outskirts of Tokyo, they were noticed by a foreign record company.

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YUKI

YUKI (Yuki Isoya 磯谷有希) is one of Japan's most notable female vocalists. Best known as the front-woman and lead vocals of the former rock band JUDY AND MARY, she has also been part of the largely unknown NiNa (with Kate Pierson of The B-52's) and the all girl rock band Mean Machine (along side Chara). She was born on February 17, 1972 in Hakodate, Hokkaido to her parents Mo and Ryouko. She has two siblings, an older sister Yukari, and a younger brother Taminori. Her blood type is A. She is married to Magokoro Brothers front man YO-KING.

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AAA

AAA (pronounced as "Triple A") is short for "ATTACK ALL AROUND". AAA has two lead male vocalists (Nishijima Takahiro, Urata Naoya), one lead female vocalist (Uno Misako), one rapper (Mitsuhiro Hidaka), and has all seven members as dancers (other members include Sueyoshi Shuta, Atae Shinjiro and Ito Chiaki). AAA is meant to appeal to music listeners of all sorts. The Avex Trax group debuted in September 2005 with the Japanese theme song (BLOOD on FIRE) to the Initial D Live-Action Movie, which reached #9 on the Oricon Singles Charts.

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Rebecca

1. REBECCA (???????) was a Japanese popular pop/rock band active mostly in the late 80's, fronted by NOKKO. They released 7 albums from 1984 to 1989. The band's name comes from the novel "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm". 2. Rebecca, was an noise punk rock band from Pazin/

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No Name

There is more than one artist with this name:
1) NO NAME is a stand alone sub-group of the Japanese idol group AKB48.
AKB48 received their first television anime series entitled AKB0048. This anime series is directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike, and is planned and supervised by AKB48 producer Yasushi Akimoto 9 members of AKB48 and its sister groups were selected to voice the main anime characters after a public audition.

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Glacier

Actually there are at least 7 bands/artists called Glacier around at this moment. 1) An American power metal band that released only a self-titled EP in 1985 and two demos before breaking up. 2) Glacier is the alias of Melody D's ambient piano tunes.
Glacierisation was released independently on December 6th, 2005 and Songs From Under Umbrellas was finished as of September 28th, 2006. Another album is currently in the works. 3) Glacier is a Hamburg-based indierock/shoegaze-band who released their debut-album A Sunny Place For Shady People on October 13th, 2006.

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Kan

KAN (born September 24, 1962) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. His real name is Kan Kimura(木村 和). He once said that he chose the artist-name simply as "KAN" in order not to confuse listeners, because it is not common to read the letter "和" as Kan.
He released "Yokereba Issho-ni" as the new single on Feb.10, 2010. The release of the new album is also scheduled on Mar. 10, 2010, and it will be titled "Kanchigai-mo Hanahadashii Watashi-no Jinsei" .

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