Hirofumi Okamoto Profile
Okamoto was born in 1960. He is from Hiroshima city, now living in Kyoto.
He started his career as jazz guitarist.Then he has been playing many kinds of music,such as blues, R&B, funk, folklore, tango, Indian music,Japanese folk and more.He learned chord works from Bret Willmott in Boston, Folklore from Juan Falu in Buenos Aires.
His guitar play, both of acoustic and electric guitar, obtained him high evaluation.Especially he is a very few Japanese professional guitarist can play tango. He released two albums [Jawango/1998] as acoustic guitarist, [Grand Blue/2007] as electric guitarist. Now he will release new album [You Are My Sunshine/2011] is considered the culmination of all his musical activities. And [You Are My Sunshine]shows How he go to the next stage, which we feel a new feeling.
Now he is the one of most important guitarist in Japan.
The main musicians that he ever played is:
Kazumi Watanabe (g/Japan) as duo
Rie Akagi(fl/Janpan)
Hiroki Miyano(g/Japan)
Tomohiro Yahiro(per/Japan)
Vagabond Suzuki(b/Japan)
Gustavo Gregorio(Bass/Argentine)
Jorge Cumbo (kena/Argentine) works in 2years on Japan tour. (He played with Simon and Garfunkel on El Condor Paso)
Muguel Cantiro (Vo/Argentine)
Cesar Olguin(Bandneon/Argentine)
Miguel Balcos (p/Argentine)
Milva (Vo/Argentine)
Prodigio (Cuatro/Puerto Rico)
Fidel Morales Reyes (dr/Puerto Rico)
Luis Pelico Ortis (tp /Puerto Rico)
Giovanni Hidalgo(per/Puerto Rico)
Halko Kuwana(vocal/Japan)
Toshi Hiketa(g/Japan David Lee Roth Band)
Toshihiro Sumitomo(g/Japan CHRIS DUARTE Band)
Jadranka Stojakovi?（vocal/Bosna i Hercegovina)
Astrorico(Tango band/Japan)
Hugo Fattoruso(p&kb/Urguai)
office: RAG International Music
〒604-8005 Yebisu-cho 534-25 ,Sanjo Futasuji-agaru-higashi-iru,Nakagyo-ku,Kyoto city,Kyoto pref,JAPAN
TEL +81 75-255-7273
FAX +81 75-253-2040
mail@ragnet.co.jp
Mail（To Hirofumi Okamoto）: jawango@gaia.eonet.ne.jp
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