Born on September 22, 1959 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Tatuya Ishii is a Japanese singer-songwriter, artist, and industrial designer who first rose to fame as the vocalist of pop-rock bigwigs Kome Kome CLUB who enjoyed commercial success during the early to mid-'90s. He kicked off his solo career following the demise of the band in 1997, releasing his first single "White Moon in the Blue Sky" that same year and a debut album, H, in 1998. One smooth-talking bilingual album after another followed, including a special LP with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007 called SUNDIAL and his 24th studio album Lost Message, released in 2022. Tatsuya Ishii has also produced two films, ACRI ~The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius (1996) and Kappa (1994) as well as writing numerous books over the years.
