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Akimi Morinaga is a singer-songwriter who is exploring music of all times and places and setting it up in his own unique way.
His nostalgic yet pop and sophisticated works have the style of short-story and the physical pleasure.
He is now working with 7 other members as "AKIMI MORINAGA & IL PARADISO", and sometimes as an acoustic style band mainly in Tokyo.
In 2018, based on a demo tape, he released the 1st EP "Room of Hommage" including 6 songs which was taken 1 year to produce.
In 2019, 28th of July, a new song "MINMIN TV" was released after 1 year from the last song.
He will be performing in the FRF`19 ROOKIE A GO-GO as "AKIMI MORINAGA & IL PARADISO"
vo. AKIMI MORINAGA
dr. RYOSUKE TOMITA
ba. SOSUKE SAKAMOTO
key. AMI NIKAIDO
vin. YOSUKE WATANABE
gt. YUTA ISHIKAWA
cho. YU KAGA
cho. IZURU TAKANO
-MEDIA-
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-Previous works-
MONONOKE TENSHI MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdIDxpdKwn0
1st EP Room of Hommage
https://linkco.re/vyBamrsq
A pop music artist based in Tokyo, Akimi Morinaga combines City Pop with diverse influences such as MPB (Brazilian music), kayōkyoku (Japanese popular songs), neo-soul, and disco, creating a contemporary sound. His style, which explores fiction and adjacent realities, resembles the works of self-produced pop artists from Japans New Music era. In 2018, he released his first EP, Room of Homage, a six-track project developed over a year. The following year, performing as Akimi Morinaga & Il Paradiso, he appeared at FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL 19 ROOKIE A GO-GO and Ringo Music Festival 2019, also releasing Minmin TV, produced by Takeshi Namura, known for his work with KIRINJI. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Morinaga has focused on creating music from his home studio, including his first solo concert End Stage Act in 2022 and a nine-month streak of consecutive singles in 2023. In addition to writing, composing, arranging, and performing his own tracks, he has collaborated on pieces such as Koi no Hajimari (arranged by Yukiko Nishii), Kaettekitara Yasashikusurukara (arranged by Yuta Ishikawa), and Akudoi with singer-songwriter Marlion. Exploring new dimensions in pop music, he continues to gain widespread support through digital platforms.