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(born October 22, 1973, stylized as Taku Hirano) is a Japanese percussionist and recording artist with the group Tao Of Sound. ==Biography== Takuya "Taku" Hirano was born in Osaka, and grew up in Fresno, California and Hong Kong. He attended Hong Kong International School and graduated from Roosevelt School of the Arts at Theodore Roosevelt High School (Fresno), where he studied orchestral percussion, jazz, afro-cuban jazz, and salsa music. He then attended Berklee College of Music, studying under Giovanni Hidalgo and Jamey Haddad, graduating in 1995. He has also studied drum set with Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, and in Havana, Cuba with Changuito. Taku Hirano has toured playing percussion with Fleetwood Mac, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Stevie Nicks, Lionel Richie, Isaac Hayes, Lindsey Buckingham, John Mayer, A.R. Rahman,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A.R. RAHMAN JAI HO CONCERT : THE JOURNEY HOME WORLD TOUR )〕 Hikaru Utada, and with Cirque du Soleil on Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour. Taku has recorded with Dr. Dre on ''2001'', Fleetwood Mac, Whitney Houston, The Temptations, Hikaru Utada, Stevie Nicks, Josh Groban, Chromeo, Ziggy Marley, Emmanuel Jal, Nelly Furtado and Lionel Richie, in addition to working on major motion picture soundtracks. As co-founder of the production duo Tao Of Sound, he has worked as a producer and programmer of commercial sound libraries, and remixer for artists such as Kanye West, Kitaro, and The Ahn Trio. Tao of Sound has released three albums under the record label Domo Records: Metro (2010) Ronin- Extended Play (2012), and Ronin (2013). Taku is a columnist for ''Drum!'' magazine, a contributor for ''Modern Drummer'' magazine a drum clinician, and has served as an artist-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University and teacher at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Taku was listed in ''Modern Drummer'' 's Reader’s Poll 2014, 2013, and 2012,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Modern Drummer 2014 Readers Poll )〕 and ''Drum!s Drummies awards 2015 Percussionist of the Year (runner up), 2015 Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop Percussionist (runner-up), 2013 Studio Percussionist (runner-up), 2013 Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop Percussionist (runner-up), 2012 Studio Percussionist (runner-up), 2012 World Percussionist (runner-up), 2011 Percussionist of the Year (runner-up), 2011 Studio Percussionist (runner-up), 2011 Jazz/Fusion Percussionist (runner-up), 2011 Live Performer (runner-up), 2011 Rock/Pop Percussionist of the Year (runner-up), 2010 Rock/Pop Percussionist of the Year, 2009 Rock/Pop Percussionist of the Year, 2008 Percussionist of the Year (runner-up), 2008 Best Worldbeat Percussionist (runner-up), and 2007 Percussion Rising Star. Taku was most recently on tour with Bette Midler on her Divine Intervention Tour. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taku Hirano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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