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• Naoki Honma

  Naoki Honma(Naoki Homma) Born in 1984 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. After listening to Eric Clapton and being inspired by him, he began playing guitar at the age of 15. Since high school, he has been composing his own original songs and performing in a pop band and an acoustic guitar duo. After graduating from high school, he studied the basics of jazz guitar under Takashi Igarashi for a year. Graduated from Senzoku Gakuen College of Music's Jazz course in 2007. While there, he studied under both Michishita Kazuhiko and Kajiwara Jun, and performed in his own band, a unit with a jazz vocalist, and an R&B cover band. After graduating, he has been active in a wide range of fields, including supporting singer-songwriters, playing background music at restaurants, performing at weddings, appearing in shows in Tokyo, providing songs, and producing film music. Since the end of 2020, he has been uploading ukulele solo videos every day for over 1,000 days on his own YouTube channel, which has been well received. He is also active as a ukulele player, performing at weddings, etc. Favorite guitarists:Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Hironori Akiyama *Main activities* In 2024, he released his third original album, "Sweet Sorrow," which was his first work to use the ukulele and showed a wide range of unique musicality. In order to maintain the world view of the artwork by Yukina Tokumoto, it is not available for distribution and is only available on CD. In 2023, he was in charge of arranging, producing, and singing the songs in the film "Munchi no Inu - Tori Somen and Onsen Beef" directed by Kagami Yoshizo. In 2022, he was in charge of the music for the film "Sister, 32 Years Old, Missing" directed by Ryo Katamoto. In 2021, he participated as a guitarist in the album "Haneiro" by flute player Izumi Akahane. In 2020, he released his second original album "Deary" with a stellar cast of guest musicians. It is available on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. In 2011, he released his first original album "The Way Back" under his own name with a stellar cast of guest musicians. He was in charge of the music for the 3D animation "The Artist's Atelier" directed by Sho Kondo. This work won the Grand Prix at the 8th Kichijoji Animation Film Festival Music editor for Kondo Sho's 3D animation "Inhuman Love" Music composer for Kondo Sho's 3D animation "Antarctica Afternoon" Music composer for Yokoyama Yusuke's 3D animation "Poison and Medicine" Regular appearances at famous shows in Tokyo Regular performance at Maihama IKSPIARI Performance at Asakusa Samba Carnival Completely solo guitar project Mori Minori Quartet (MMQ) Duo project with Shima Yusuke Akahane Izumi Quartet Instruments used: [Electric Guitar] Terry C Mcinturff / Glory Standard Gibson / Les Paul Standard Plus No Brand / Stratocaster Ibanez / PM-120 Ibanez / AS-83 [Acoustic Guitar] Nishino Shunpei / NR-3CW Camps / PREMERA-C TUNE (FL-11-C) Crews Maniac Sound / ES-1500C Crews Maniac Sound / EG-1500C [Ukulele] KoAloha / KTR-0000 KAMAKA / HF-3DI T.Furubayashi / KT-02CW

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