Artist Profile
Shinji Chiura
Born in Izumo city, Shimane prefecture, Japan. He got involved with performing art in Tokyo, and studied composite art. After studying performing art (dance, art, music) in N.Y., he moved his base to Washington. Through personal spiritual experiences, he got inspiration from natural wisdom, and was awaken to New Age Music. After coming back to Japan in 1986, he started visual/sound design. He deepened spiritual communion with nature in the studio at the bottom of Yatsugatake mountain, and established ANPAO label. One of his album [YOGA of Dreams-YOGA NIDRA 1]became a bestseller, and it is widely used by many YOGA studio. Since then, he is producing therapeutic healing music, and known as leading authority of New Age healing music in Japan. He has many fans in Japan, and established reputation for his exquisite and very detailed work of songwriting.