Daisuke Asakura

Daisuke Asakura (浅倉 大介, Asakura Daisuke, November 4, 1967, Asakusa, Japan) is a male Japanese pop artist. His childhood consisted of piano lessons and the expectations to follow the family trade of plumbing. Asakura began his career with landing a job at Yamaha right after high school. While under Yamaha, Asakura worked on the EOS synthesizer; he was also featured in the home-instructional video for the machine. His talent was discovered by Tetsu... more

Daisuke Asakura (浅倉 大介, Asakura Daisuke, November 4, 1967, Asakusa, Japan) is a male Japanese pop artist. His childhood consisted of piano lessons and the expectations to follow the family trade of plumbing. Asakura began his career with landing a job at Yamaha right after high school. While under Yamaha, Asakura worked on the EOS synthesizer; he was also featured in the home-instructional video for the machine. His talent was discovered by Tetsuya Komuro of TM Network and Daisuke was pulled from Yamaha to work under Komuro as his protégé. Daisuke played Bass Synthesizer during TM Network's 1990-91 Rhythm Red tour. Then Asakura met Hiroyuki Takami in 1990 following Rhythm Red and eventually in 1992 broke away from TM Network and formed access (or AXS) with Takami on vocals and lyric. The break-up left Asakura to pursue new ideas that included producing and composing songs for new artists; one of the most successful acts he created was with J-pop idol Takanori Nishikawa under the title... less