Masa is the stage name of a Japanese musician. While he is not very prominent in the Japanese music scene, he was member of GacktJOB, Gackt's band. He has also been in the disbanded Spiky, Dizzy Drive and マァマァサ☆ムゥ.
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Masa was born on the 30th of September, year unknown. After graduating from a vocational school (専門学校), he went to the U.S.A. alone and took the TOEFL after one year. He then studied music at a university for three years. He learned the English language while living in New York for four years. A day after he graduated from the university, he returned home.
Masa worked with Yusuke Asada as support and later backed-up Gackt, joining his project as the electro-, drum-acoustic- and rhythm guitarist of GacktJOB, from which he first rose to fame in the Japanese music scene. There are many stories and rumors circulating about the first meeting between Gackt and Masa; a popular story among fans is that Gackt met Masa in New York and wanted to see him play the guitar, but Masa pretended that he couldn't play and watched Gackt's own guitar playing instead.
Masa decided to leave GacktJOB to work on his own career with Spiky, for which he was vocalist and guitarist. During this time Spiky released 2 singles, 6 maxi singles, 1 album and 2 mini albums. However, the project Spiky came to a halt as Masa left in 2005 to start his very own project, Dizzy Drive. The remaining members tried to recruit a new vocalist and the new formation was supposed to debut on the same day as Masa with DIZZY DRIVE, but it never happened. After two final lives in August 2006 Spiky officially announced their disbanding.
In the beginning of June 2006, Masa announced that with the agreement of all members, DIZZY DRIVE would start over with a new concept; since they couldn't identify with their old band name anymore, they also created a new name. The last concert under the name of DIZZY DRIVE was on the second of July. Masa also started to work as a guitarist again, first with the session band JET STREAM ATTACK (covering BUCK-TICK) in June and then on the second Summer Festival, organized by Seventh Heaven with the session band Sin After Sin (covering Luna Sea) in July; he also performed as a singer with Spiky again in August 2006 in two lives, acoustic and electric, which seemed to have been the end of that project. A break was announced until September 2006, after which he returned with his new project, マァマァサ☆ムゥ, which consisted of the same members as DIZZY DRIVE but with the new concept and style. Instead of the more rock attitude of DIZZY DRIVE, their shows are now quite theatrical and the music has a touch of eighties rock. Junn decided to leave the band in January 2007 but due to Masa's nearly fatal road accident, the announcement was postponed until July. From the time of the comeback concert in October 2007 until the final concert in March 2008, Masanori joined the band for support again, but they remained officially only three members.
On the March 16, 2008, マァマァサ☆ムゥ disbanded and Masa announced that he would take a break for the time being. He does not know if he will return as a singer, guitarist, or both, and has not said when he'll return.
Masa has participated in several projects since his introduction to the Japanese music scene: GacktJOB, Spiky, Dizzy Drive and マァマァサ☆ムゥ
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Their official logo was JETBOY and their official fanclub (shared with Spiky) was known as CHRONICLE.
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| 1st | Spiky to be
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| 1st | silVer
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| 2nd | Scream in the Sky
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| 1st | Spiky On The Way
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| 2nd | Confidence
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| 3rd | Create
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| 4th | Real
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| 5th | Joy
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| 6th | n.e.w.s.
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| 7th | アベレイジ
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| 8th | Spiky on the Way 2nd Press
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1st Demo CD(22 May 2005) (sold at the Kashiwa CLUB ZaX live, limited)
2nd Demo CD(15 July 2005) (sold at the Kumagaya Club Vogue live, limited)
3rd Demo CD(6 September 2005) (sold at the Fukuoka DRUM Be-1 live, limited)
SUPER SONIC(1 March 2006)
DVDR 1(21 January 2006) (sold at the Takadanobaba CLUB PHASE Fanclub Event, limited)
DVD Evolution(14 May 2006) (sold at the YOKOHAMA CLUB 24 live, limited)
Presented CD(August 2005) (sent to the Fanclub members as a Good-bye-present)
1st Demo CD(2 September 2006) (sold at the Roppongi Morph Tokyo live, limited)
2nd Demo CD(30 September 2006) (sold at the Yokohama Soundhall live, limited)
3rd Demo CD(20 October 2006) (sold at the Takadanobaba AREA live, limited)
4th Demo CD(22 November 2006) (sold at the Shinjuku LOFT live, limited)
5th Demo CD(2 December 2006) (sold at the Kashiwa ZAX live, limited)
6th Demo CD(10 December 2006) (sold at the Yokohama CLUB 24 live, limited)
7th Demo CD(29 December 2006) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited)
8th Demo CD(6 October 2007) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited)
DVD-R(6 October 2007) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited)
9th Demo CD(4 November 2007) (sold at the Ueno SENSATION live, limited)
10th Demo CD(2 December 2007) (sold at the Shibuya GUILTY live, limited)
11th Demo CD(27 December 2007) (sold at the Ueno SENSATION live, limited)
12th Demo CD(26 January 2008) (sold at the Ueno SENSATION live, limited)
13th Demo CD(24 February 2008) (sold at the Ueno SENSATION live, limited)
14th Demo CD(16 March 2008) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited)
Dear.Angel(16 March 2008) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited, マァマァサ☆ムゥBest)