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Kenny Endo
Kenny Endo (born April 2, 1953) is an American musician and taiko master. He is the leader of several taiko ensembles and regularly tours, performing traditional and contemporary taiko music. Endo is also the first non-Japanese national to receive a natori in the field of hogaku hayashi, Japanese classical drumming. Today Endo composes his own music and plays taiko professionally as a solo artist, with his ensembles, and in collaboration with other artists.
==Early life==
Kenny Endo was born on April 2, 1953 in Los Angeles, California to an Issei (first generation) father and Nisei (second generation) mother Japanese American parents. Endo was raised in Los Angeles with his brother and three sisters, and while he was exposed to some Japanese culture as a child, he grew up as an American.〔Doyle, Mark. "The Beat Goes On." MidWeek 28 February 1996. Print.〕 From an early age, he loved drums and taiko, and started playing drums at nine years of age. Endo played in the school orchestra and band, and on his own drum set throughout middle and high school.
Endo began college at the University of California, Santa Cruz; he would eventually major in Political Science and minor in Ethnomusicology at UCLA. In 1973, while still in college, he had the opportunity to do a six-month field study on a Native American reservation in Arizona, which had served as Poston War Relocation Center, the largest Japanese-American internment camp during WWII.〔"Kenny Endo: Connecting to Heritage through Music," Big Drum. http://www.janm.org/exhibits/bigdrum/interviews/endo.php〕 The experience was a big turning point in his life that made him want to learn more about his own culture. Around the same time, in 1973, Kenny had his first experience with kumidaiko (ensemble drumming) when he saw San Francisco Taiko Dojo perform in San Jose.〔 The performance made him realize that taiko was something he wanted to do in life.〔Leong, David. "Interview with Kenny Endo." http://www.taiko.com/taiko_resource/news/inter_kennyendo_022098.html〕 After finishing his time on the Native American reservation, Endo returned to Los Angeles and in 1975 was accepted into Kinnara Taiko, the seminal taiko group in Los Angeles, which is based in the Senshin Buddhist Temple.
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