rockwell

Vo. Manabu Kuroda
Birthday : May 29th Blood type : A / Birthplace : Okayama

He become aware of a guitar by finding his father's gut guitar hidden in a closet during his junior high school years. Soon begun to make original music, and to sing enthusiastically, he started to appear in front of the Okayama Station. Formed a band during high school years and started to hold live concerts at Okayama Pepper Land.
Formed a band “COATZ” during college years.
2000 Made a debut as a vocalist for COATZ
2004 Started Solo to search and to express himself more deeply
2005 Formed the “rockwell” with Seigo Shishikura

Gt. Seigo Shishikura
Birthday : October 31st Blood type : O / Birthplace : Hokkaido

Started playing guitar in full swing from the junior high school years. Continued his activities mainly at the live houses in the local, Sapporo, and also formed his own band and won the championships at many contests.
1995 Went to the US alone. Joined a local band in San Francisco and Austin and held some live concerts. After his return, started his activity as a free- guitarist in Sapporo. Other than joining the recordings for various artists, he also did live supportings and performed on TV and the radio programs.

2001 Left for Tokyo to enlarge his range in activities. Repeated co-staring with the artists with full of talents.
2006 Formed the “rockwell” with Manabu Kuroda. Started their activities as a band

Works
Recording :BENNIE-K, Tsukiko Amano, Rie (September), Kazumi Toyota, etc.
Live, Tour : V6, ting ting (Chinese Biwa player), Masumi Ono (ex GARO), etc.

 

The encounter, and reason for forming a band together

After the broke up of COATZ, Kuroda started Solo. While making his original music, he was considering about spicing up his arrangements and the performances, and the first well-qualified person came to his mind was Shishikura, who he knew already through the office. Making up his mind and Kuroda rang Shishikura’s cell phone was the first step of forming the rockwell.

Even Shishikura quickly hit it off with him by being Kuroda’s support guitarist. Shishikura took the offer from Kuroda to do something together in the orderly fashion, and officially started as "rockwell" in 2005.

The origin of the name “rockwell”

Names by the guitarist Shishikura. While he was in the artistically oriented vocational high school, he learned about an artist, Norman Rockwell(February 3rd, 1894~November 8th, 1978). Since then, his realistic and soft but sharp cut works had always kept in his mind.

All the more reason, when they formed the band in 2005, it was natural to choose it as the name.

The nature of his art as being pop, but also having the universality like making the viewers feel the joy, anger, humor and pathos of life respectively, linked with the music they seek; and also it fit well with the image from the implications of “massive Rock” came exactly.
The vocalist Kuroda had no objection to this and with this they started out to the world.

Although it is a digression, even now, the replica of "THE RUNAWAY" is posted on the wall in a room of the Shishikura's parents' home in Sapporo.

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