SOPHIA
Name	Date of Birth	Instrument
Matsuoka Mitsuru	12 August 1971	Vocal
Toyoda Kazutaka	1 September 1971	Guitar
Kuroyanagi Yoshio	18 March 1972	Bass
Akamatsu Yoshitomo	27 May 1974	Drums
Miyako Keiichi	6 October 1971	Keyboard

SOPHIA is a rock band. The name of SOPHIA means"philosophy".

SOPHIA has five members: Mitsuru Matsuoka(Vo), Kazutaka Toyoda(Gt), Yoshio Kuroyanagi(Bs), Yoshitomo Akamatsu(Dr), Keiichi Miyako(Ky). Matsuoka is very cool, so he is very popular with women. He is also capable as songwriter.

SOPHIA was formed in 1994 June. They went to Tokyo from Osaka towards their major debut. They debuted in 1995 October. Their debut mini album is "BOYS". After they released it, they released a new mini album,"GIRLS". The next year they released their first single "Himawari". Himawari is sunflower in English. That song is still very popular among SOPHIA's fans , but their most famous song is Machi.

They have released thirteen singles and three albums and three mini albums. Four singles of their released singles are maxi singles.

They did a New Year's concert in Osaka Castle Hall in this year. I wanted to go to that concert. They are visiting some places in Japan for their new concert, "TOUR 2000".

RELEASED SINGLES
Himawari	22 April 1996
Early summer rain	21 May 1996
Believe	11 November 1996
Little Cloud	19 February 1997
Machi	9 July 1997
Kimi to Yureteitai	27 November 1997
Gokigentori	22 April 1998
Kuroi Boots	26 November 1998
Beautiful	25 March 1999
RELEASED MAXISINGLES
Place	4 August 1999
OAR	15 December 1999
Misaile	2 Febrary 2000
WALK	18 October 2000
RELEASED MINIALBUMS
SOPHIA	21 March 1995
BOYS	2 October 1995
GIRLS	1 November 1995
Kiss the Future	1 July 1996
RELEASED ALBUMS
Little Circus	23 April 1997
ALIVE	20 May 1998
Material	14 April 1999

References: Minna no SOPHIA

Reported by: Takayuki Fukano
Data verified by: Keisuke Suzuki
Date of Report: December 2000
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