Artist Profile
Keito
Influenced by his father, a jazz bassist, he grew up listening to a wide range of music from jazz to Western and Japanese music. He began violin lessons at the age of 8 and classical piano lessons at 13, but in her third year of junior high school, he saw Janet Jackson perform live and was so impressed that he decided to pursue a career in the show business of dancing and singing. While taking dance lessons and voice training, at the age of 19 he went to New York for training and got his first taste of real show business. Since then, he has continued to travel to New York regularly for training. Since then, he has performed in numerous shows, contests, and on stage. After working as a dancer in a wide range of shows, contests, and stages, both major and underground, he joined CHEMISTRY in 2010 and has been performing with them ever since. In 2010, he debuted as a member of "CHEMISTRY +Synergy," a limited-time unit with CHEMISTRY. In April 2011, he finally made his independent debut as a singer KtoXic. Since then, he has also worked as a dancer, back dancer, tour dancer, choreographer, director, and music video performer for famous artists such as Kana Nishino, Kaname Kawabata, Miliyah Kato, and Keisuke Yamauchi, as well as choreographer for PrizmaX and many other idol groups, and has also worked as a dancer and model hisself. He has appeared in numerous shows, live performances, stage performances, TV shows, commercials, and magazines, while also teaching many classes as an instructor in Tokyo and Yokohama. In the fall of 2015, he went to New York to train again, this time on his own for an indefinite period of time, where he also worked as an assistant to Lady Gaga's exclusive dancer. After returning to Japan at the end of 2019, he will resume his singing career in 2022. He is a new dance vocalist who pursues his own unique world view of music by fusing the dance and singing he has cultivated.