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Ichiro Ito 伊藤 一朗 | |
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![]() Ito in 2008 | |
Background information | |
Born | Yokosuka, Kanagawa | 10 November 1967
Genres | Rock, pop |
Instrument(s) | Guitarist, arrangement |
Years active | 1996–present |
Labels | Avex Trax |
Member of | Every Little Thing |
Website | www |
Ichiro Ito (伊藤 一朗, Itō Ichirō, born 10 November 1967) is a guitarist in the Japanese rock band Every Little Thing. [1] Ito also works in composition and, sometimes, arrangement of some of Every Little Thing's songs.
Ito Ichiro has made regular guest cast appearances in Gaki no Tsukai's annual 24 hour batsu games. He often portrays himself as a soft-spoken guy in the annual event and is often subjected to being pinched in the nose or ear by a Kuwagata Beetle, known as Stag Beetle in English.
Every Little Thing is a pop/soft rock duo from Japan who debuted in August 1996 with the release of their first single called "Feel My Heart". Their name is usually written in English, and only rarely in katakana. They gained massive popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s. As of 2013, Every Little Thing has sold over 23 million copies of singles and albums throughout Japan. Their second studio album, Time to Destination, is the best-selling album of the band with over 3.5 million copies sold, and became the 10th best-selling album of all time in Japan.
Mitsuru Igarashi is the former keyboardist and songwriter of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing. He founded the band in early 1996 with his old friend Ichirō Itō and then 18-year-old singer Kaori Mochida. He left Every Little Thing in April 2000 after releasing the third album, Eternity. Since leaving the band, he started producing music for the band Day After Tomorrow which disbanded in 2005. Currently he plays keyboards and is a songmaker and producer in band Rushmore. He was also involved in composing and writing song lyrics for Every Little Thing's ninth album, Change.
"Fragile", released with a B-side track "Jirenma", is a single by the J-pop group Every Little Thing, released as their eighteenth single on January 1, 2001. It was their fourth single to top the Oricon chart.
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Many Pieces is the fifth album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing (ELT), released on March 19, 2003. Many Pieces showed a drastic change in ELT's music, because of the departure of synthesizers and the change in Mochida's vocals.
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Crispy Park is the seventh album by the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on August 9, 2006.
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Door is the eighth album by the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on March 5, 2008.
Change is the ninth album of the Japanese pop rock group Every Little Thing, released on March 24, 2010.
Ordinary is the tenth studio album by Japanese music duo Every Little Thing. It was released on September 21, 2011, by Avex Trax.
Every Best Singles: Complete is a singles compilation by the Japanese duo Every Little Thing, released on December 23, 2009, through Avex Trax.
Fun-Fare is the eleventh studio album by Japanese music duo Every Little Thing. It was released on February 19, 2014, by Avex Trax.
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The discography of Every Little Thing, a J-pop duo formed in 1996 by Mitsuru Igarashi, Kaori Mochida and Ichiro Ito, consists of eleven studio albums, six compilation albums, five remix albums, and numerous singles and videos, many of which were commercially successful. The band debuted with their single "Feel My Heart" on August 7, 1996, which peaked at number twenty-four on the Japanese Oricon charts. Their first number one single was "For The Moment", released on June 4, 1997. Their most successful year was 1998, in which they released their 8th single "Time Goes By" which topped the charts and sold more than a million copies. Their second studio album Time to Destination released that year sold more than 3.5 million copies in Japan, their best-selling album to date. Number one singles of the band include "Forever Yours" (1998), "Fragile" (2001), Untitled 4 Ballads (2002) and "Koibumi" (2004).
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