18/12/2001
| Name | Casino Date |
| Real name | Mikiko Jo |
| Birth date | 23 Sep. 1967 |
| Birth place | Suginami, Tokyo, Japan |
| Living place | Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Favorite colors | black, gray, blue |
| Favorite foods | Hershey's milk chocolate, Dairy Queen's caramel soft, milk, egg, custard pudding, celery, green pepper, tomato, anchovy, hummus with zhoug |
| Favorite clothes | Tshirt & blue jean (and heavy boots) |
| Favorite movies | The Blues Brothers, Reservoir Dogs, Charade, Diva, The Sting, Top Secret!, Radio Days, Desperado, The Adventures of Priscilla, Partners, Müllers Büro, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, A clockwork Orange, Monty Python's the Meaning of Life, MASH, The Great Escape, Escape of the Birdman etc. |
| Favorite TV programs (except Japanese ones) | Garrison's Gorillas, The A-Team, Sledge Hammer!, Soap, Starsky & Hutch, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible (the earliest), The Rat Patrol, The Untouchables, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Galloping Gourmet, Impossibles, Penelope, Josie and the Pussycats, The Funky Phantom, Saturday Night Live (the earliest) |
| Favorite music | all what I feel "good", especially contemporary male a cappella, salsa, merengue, bossa nova, tango, mambo, samba, American oldies ('50s & '60s), old sound tracks, C&W, raggae-like ska etc. |
| Favorite musicians | Teapacks (Tipex), Neri per Caso, Five O'clock Shadow, Rockapella/Sean Altman, Ridillo, Eddy Napoli, Dirotta su Cuba, Principe & Socio M., Mau Mau, Raggae National Tickets, Balanço, Marc Anthony, The Manhattan Transfer, The Nylons, The Andrews Sisters, The Star Sisters, Nat King Cole, 3 Mustaphas 3, Pink Martini, Shara, Carmen Miranda, Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66, Magali Bonfils, Sarit Hadad, The Hollies, The Blues Brothers, Alfred Hause, Taco, Sublime, Matt Bianco, Baha Men, Village People, Roby Lakatos, Energipsy, BIFF ets. |
| Favorite composers | J.S.Bach, E.Satie, Scott Joplin, Leroy Anderson, Claudio Mattone, Lalo Schifrin, Masayuki Yamamoto, Sean Altman, Kobi Oz etc. |
| The best singers | Mimì Caravano (Neri per Caso), Sean Altman (ex-Rockapella), Oren Malka (Five O'clock Shadow), Eddy Napoli |
| Occupations | 1. editor for an organ about chain-store
management 2. private tutor (maths and sciences) for high school or junior high school students |
| Ex-occupations | waitress at an Indian restaurant, scenario writer, illustrator, part-timer at an exterior design office, tutor at high schools etc. |
| Hobbies | sleeping, gardening (at the veranda)... for now |
| Family | father, mother, younger sister, younger brother and cats (living apart from me) |
| Neccessities | Marlboro (red box), milk coffee, fav. music, glasses, pain killer |
| Other things | F, height 164cm, Rh+A, golden pegasus, Win98 user, nocturnal |
| Chronicle (1) | |
| 1967-1972 | grew mainly in the house |
| 1972-1974 | had to go to a kindergarten but hardly went there |
| 1974-1980 | went to an elementary scool |
| 1980-1983 | went to a junior high school |
| 1983-1986 | went to a high school |
| 1986-1990 | went to a science college and studied chemistry (my professional was chemical education) |
| 1986- | began to work as a private tutor |
| 1990-1994 | worked at a high school as a sciences tutor |
| 1990-1991 | worked at an another high school as a biology tutor |
| 1991-1992 | worked at a cram school as a maths tutor |
| 1992-1993 | worked at an extrior design office |
| 1992- | began to work as an editor with my dad |
| Chronicle (2) | ||
| 1967-1974 | I just listened to music which my granpa
or my mom played by vinyls or cassette tapes. Sometimes my dad played the guitar and sang for us. |
Sergio Mendes, classic music, movie theme music, (so-called) standard music |
| 1972-1974 | When I went to the kindergarten, what I did were singing (hymns etc.) or drawing. | |
| 1974-1975 | I took lessons of Yamaha Electone (a kind of keyboards) for a year. | Japanese pops |
| 1974 | I gave up playing the guitar. But still now I have an e-guitar. | |
| 1974 | My granpa's sister who was an opera singer invited me to take her classic singing lesson and to become an opera singer. I rejected her invitation. Because I was not interested in opera. | |
| 1974-1976 | I played the harmonica almost everyday. | |
| 1975 or 76 | My father who was a music event planner asked my sister and me if we would debut as a duo pops singers. Because at that time brothers groups singing pops (like Jackson5) were popular in Japan. I rejected his invitation. Because I wanted to become a surgeon, not a singer. | |
| 1976-1980 | I played the soprano recorder almost everyday. | |
| 1977 | I bought an e-bass guitar but soon I realized I should give up playing it. | |
| 1977-1978 | I joined an instruments ensamble at an another elementary school and played the flute, but soon quitted because the school was too far. | |
| 1979-1980 | Joining a music club at my school, I played
various instruments (but strings or drums)
and sang. Because of that, at almost events of the school I played or sang something especially. |
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| 1980-1981 | I took lessons of Yamaha Electone for a year (again). | American oldies (60s and older), oldies in the other countries, jazz vocal, big band jazz |
| 1980-1982 | My voice began to break. As I didn't think a girl broke her voice, I thought I became tone-deaf. | |
| 1982 | I got to know I had not been tone-deaf. My voice had changed into alto. | |
| 1983 (?) | I was given a clarinet but I hardly played it. | boys choirs, chorus, contemporary a cappella, traditional music (world music, etno music) |
| 1984 | I began to compose songs though I've already arranged songs since in my low-teens. | |
| 1986-1987 | Joining a chorus club at the college, I sang classics (Masses in Latin or in German). Although I wanted to join an a cappella group, it wasn't there. | |
| 1990-1994 | I composed songs and played music at a high school with tutors and teachers. | bossa nova, samba, salsa etc. (with vocal/ chorus) |
| 1994-1995 | I took lessons of pops singing. I lent my e-bass guitar to the school (it has not returned). | |
| 1995 | I took a bit lessons of flute, piano and
trombone. I began to take lessons of alto
sax. I found that carrying a tenor trombone and an alto sax at once was very hard for me. |
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| 1996 | I took lessons of jazz singing. | Italian pops |
| 1996 | I bought an accordion to play it at my closest friend's wedding banquet because I can't sing with playing the sax. As another friend playing the guitar and I playing the accordion sang our original songs there, we were misunderstood that we must have been professional music group. | |
| now | I think I have to go to the sax lesson. But, to tell the truth, I prefer singing lessons because instruments are heavy to carry. Or I prefer taking lessons of light instruments like the violin or the oud though they are strings. | Israeli mizrakhi pops |