Vanilla Mood

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Vanilla Mood mini-album cover

Vanilla Mood (バニラムード) is a group of idol music performers on the Avex record label in Japan. Their debut mini-album hit stores on February 8, 2006. What makes these four girls so different and set apart from other idols is that they not only play their own instruments, but their instruments of choice are the flute, violin, cello & piano.

[edit] Profiles

Name: Waka
- Birthday: December 09, 1980
- Hometown Kitakyushu city
- Bloodtype: A
- Instrument: flute
- Influence: Parents were music lovers, and has loved songs and the piano since a very young age.
- Age started playing: 7 years old
- Idols: Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, Miwa Yoshida, Hirose Kami

Name: Keiko
- Birthday: September 28, 1982
- Hometown Hiroshima prefecture
- Bloodtype: A
- Instrument: piano
- Influence: Had to go with her sister to music lessons, and began learning that way.
- Age started playing: 4 years old

Name: Mariko
- Birthday: July 14, 1982
- Hometown Kitakyushu city
- Bloodtype: B
- Instrument: cello
- Influence: A picture when she was little that she loved dearly had a picture of a bear playing an instrument. Since that age, she has wanted to play.
- Age started playing: 4 years old for the violin and piano. 8 years old for the cello.
- Idols: Turtle Island String Quartet

Name: Yui
- Birthday: October 20, 1982
- Hometown Nagoya city
- Bloodtype: O
- Instrument: violin
- Influence: Since her mother played the piano, her aunt began to teach her to play the violin.
- Age started playing: 4 years old
- Idols: Roby Lakatos, Stephane Grappelli, Heifetz, Brahms, Sibelius

Also of note is one "Emilee", sometimes seen playing the violin, but replacing Waka. Emilee is the daughter of Miyamoto Fumiaki, a world renowned oboe player. Now, She is a solo violin player.

Their World Wide WebSite is at: http://www.vanillamood.jp