Ishida Tomo, known as TEE, and born 26 November 1982 in Hiroshima, Japan, is a Japanese J‑Pop singer-songwriter. After his brief boxing career at Hōsei University was cut short by injury, he studied in Toronto, Canada, where he first entertained a 3,000‑person club crowd as a DJ before taking the microphone himself. Returning to Japan, he recorded the independent EP Palette under Nano Rebel; the track "Change My Life" earned a weekly spot in the Japan Single of the Week on a streaming platform, attracting Universal Music Japan’s attention. TEE released his debut album Kido I Raku followed by the single "Baby I Love You", which charted for 22 consecutive weeks on the Usen J‑Pop charts and was downloaded over 700 000 times as a Chaku‑Uta, earning the 2010 Billboard Japan Music Award for New Artist of the Year. Subsequent releases included "Answer" (2012), "With You" (2012), and "One of a Kind" (2014).
