KOTARO SAITO BIOGRAPHY

Name: Kotaro Saito (Cellist, Composer, Arranger, and Programmer. )

Recorded and performed with Ringo Shina, Angela Aki, Jazztronic, Crazy Ken Band, YUZU, Kumi Koda, Crystal Kay and so on.
Appeared in lots of PV and TV programs.

He is the only cellist in JAPAN who plays 5 and 6 strings cello, along with the regular 4 strings.

Now UNCLE BOY is his main band. The band is the instrumental trio formed by the bassist with his 7 strings bass, Kotaro with his 5 strings cello and drummer.
He's good at playing ROCK style using lots of improvisation. He likes to use pedals such as Fuzz, Delay, Rat boosters and so on.

He adores Frank Zappa and loves dogs.

He worked as a trainer for the Japanese actor called Masahiro Motoki, when he had to play cello in the film called 'OKURIBITO'.

The film is known as "Departures" in the outside of Japan and won the Best Foreign Language Film prize at the 81st Academy Awards. The film is depicting a cellist who becomes a funeral professional.

The 1st major CD debut of Kotaro was back in 2005 as a member of the duo called "Tongari-kids". Their 1st single "B-Dush" sold more than 400,000 copies and it raised to No. 2 of "the Oricon daily ranking chart", and in weekly chart, the highest position was No. 4. Tongari-kids appeared several major TV program such as "Music Station" and played on stage of "Summer Sonic Festival". The single got the gold disc.

In 2009, he released another CD as a member of the band called B-CLUB from P-VINE. Kotaro worked not just as a main composer/programmer and a cellist, he even sung in that band.

In 2010, released CD from Midi Creative as a member of UNCLE BOY. The bassist is USHIRO-KARA-MAEKAWA.

In 2011, took part in Kabuki play called "May sanndai taisetsu", as a improvising cellist. The play was broadcasted on TV by the station called WOWWOW.

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斎藤孝太郎(チェロ,作曲,編曲,プログラミング)
北海道札幌市生まれ湘南育ち。
椎名林檎、アンジェラ・アキ、Jazztronik、クレイジーケンバンド、ゆず、倖田來未、Crystal Kayなどの録音及びLIVE演奏、PV出演、テレビ出演など多数参加。
第17回コクーン歌舞伎にチェロの即興演奏で参加。WOWOWで放送される。
第81回アカデミー賞外国語映画賞作品『おくりびと』では本木雅弘氏のチェロ指導を行う。
台湾ドラマ『ショコラ』では主演の長澤まさみにチェロ指導を行い、KOHAKの『Zipangu』が挿入曲として使用される。
2009年、P-VINE RecordsよりB-ClubでCDデビュー。
2010年、Midi CreativeよりアンクルボーイでCDデビュー。
2015年、新潟津南町 なじょもん.縄文親善大使に任命される。

日本国内で唯一多弦チェロとエレクトリックチェロを自在に操るチェリスト。
Frank Zappaと三沢光晴を敬愛している。

現在は、EnsembloidとBLOIDを軸に活動している。