Famous People in Japan



Every Little Thing

Name Date of Birth Place of Birth
Mochida Kaori March 24, 1978 Tokyo
Igarashi Mitsuru May 17, 1969 Tokyo
Ito Ichiro November 10, 1967 Yokosuka

Every Little Thing has three people: producer & keyboard, Mitsuru Igarashi; guitarist Ichirou Itou; and vocalist Kaori Mochida.

They made their debut 2 years ago. This year, their song "Time Goes By", which was a theme song of a drama, was long hit. Now this song has been the most famous song among young people this year.

They will appear in NHK Red and White Song Festival. Their new album will go on sale on the 19th of December. It is 12,000 yen!

Recently, they finished their first national concert tour. They visited 27 places. The video and LD recorded on this tour are going to go on sale on the 28th of December. After the tour, they did a recording of a new song and then rested for one week. The name of the new song is "Necessary". It has been already known to us because we can listen to it on TV commercial of Toyota.

During their break, the vocalist said she shopped for tableware, dry goods, and so on. She enjoys cooking with the tableware that she selected and bought. She is good at cooking because her mother is a good cook. In an interview in one magazine, she said she began to keep a diary. She writes happy feelings in her diary frequently.

Here are ELT's songs:

1st single - Feel My Heart
2nd single - Future World
3rd single - Dear My Friend
4th single - For the moment
5th single - Like when we met first
6th single - Shapes of Love
7th single - Face the change
8th single - Time goes by
9th single - Forever Yours
10th single - Necessary

References: http://www.win.ne.jp/~takezawa/elt/index.html

This article compliments of Michael Shawback's Internet class at Ryukoku University, Kyoto

Reported by: Yasui Hitomi
Data verified by: Shiota Yuka
Date of Report: October 1998

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