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There are several bands with the name TOKIO. 1) TOKIO (Japan) is a popular band which is part of the Japanese idol company Johnny's Entertainment. The group is made up of the leader Joshima Shigeru (guitar), Yamaguchi Tatsuya (bass), Kokubun Taichi (keyboards), Matsuoka Masahiro (drums) and Nagase Tomoya (vocals/guitar). In 2004 they celebrated their 10th anniversary with the release of the cover album "TOK10". Besides their music careers, the members of Tokio also can be seen in movies, TV dramas and variety shows. In the start of March 2008 Tatchan (Yamaguchi Tatsuya) announced his marriage to a former model (named...

There are at least four bands with this name. 1st. positive melancholic band from Berlin. 2nd. This project is a musical collective series of improvisation, founded by Douglas Dickel (input_output, Blanched), inspired by Joshua Homme’s Desert Sessions. Hotel began in 2006 at the Live Studio, in Porto Alegre, when Dickel brought together musicians from the local indie & post-rock scene. Songs are written & recorded “on the spot”, simultaneously, and in matters of four hours. Hotel is the introducing of people to each other. The gathered musicians try some spontaneous ideas or rhythms, or pick up stuff. “Térreo” means Hotel’s...

Tokio Hotel is a German band founded in Magdeburg, Germany in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schäfer. The four met in 2001 after a live show in a Magdeburg club, where Listing and Schäfer, who knew each other from music school, watched from the audience while Bill and Tom Kaulitz played on the stage. After Bill Kaulitz’s participation in a children’s Star Search in 2003 at age thirteen (which he lost in the quarter-final), he was discovered by music producer Peter Hoffmann. Devilish changed their name to Tokio Hotel: “Tokio” is...

Kerli Kõiv (born February 7, 1987), known simply as Kerli, is an Elva, Estonian singer-songwriter. In 2002, she began competing in numerous singing competitions and winning most of them. She later moved to the United States where she was signed to Island Records by L.A. Reid. There, she worked with David Maurice on numerous songs, three of which were released on her EP Kerli. Her debut studio album Love Is Dead was released in 2008. In 2010, she appeared on the album Almost Alice with the song Tea Party and Strange, the latter being a duet with Tokio Hotel. In...

The Black Hotels are an indie rock band from Johannesburg, South Africa. Formed in 2006, their first release, a five-track EP called Beautiful Mornings, made them one of the most critically acclaimed South African indie bands of 2007. The band spent the most part of 2007/08 on the road completing six national tours in 18 months with notable performances at Oppikoppi, The XBox Summer Festival, Powerzone Unplugged Festival, Durban Botanical Gardens and The Annexation Tour. In 2009 the band released their first full-length album, Films for the Next Century. The record was nominated for a South African Music Award for...