Daisuke Asakura
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| Native name | 浅倉 大介 |
| Also known as | DA, Dai-chan, Scorpion |
| Born | November 4, 1967 |
| Origin | Japan |
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| Years active | 1990–present |
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| Website | danet |
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Daisuke Asakura (浅倉 大介 Asakura Daisuke?, born November 4, 1967) is a Japanese pop artist, songwriter and producer who is known for his compositional work and mastery of the keyboards.
Asakura's childhood consisted of piano and electronic organ lessons, though he was expected to follow the family trade of plumbing. He started working with Yamaha keyboards and synthesizers in his early teens.
Asakura began his career with a job at Yamaha right after finishing high school. While at Yamaha, Asakura worked on the EOS synthesizer; he was also featured in its instructional video. His talent was discovered by Tetsuya Komuro of TM Network and Asakura was pulled from Yamaha to work under Komuro as his protégé. Subsequently, Asakura played the bass synthesizer during TM Network's 1990–91 Rhythm Red tour. Also in 1990, Asakura met the vocalist Hiroyuki Takami and featured him in some of his solo work. The two eventually formed Access (or "AXS") in 1992, after Asakura broke away from TM Network. He and Takami went on to achieve great success before splitting up in 1995.
The breakup of Access left Asakura open to pursue different projects that included composing and producing songs for new artists; one of the most successful acts he created was J-pop idol Takanori Nishikawa under the title of T.M.Revolution (also known as "TMR"). In the middle of 1996, Asakura started a three-man unit titled Iceman which brought Kenichi Ito (guitar) and Michihiro Kuroda (vocals) to the spotlight. After a few years, Iceman ended activity due to conflict between Kuroda and Asakura.
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