20th Show: Andy Suzuki!!

To celebrate our 20th show we had the up and coming artist Andy Suzuki on the show! He let us know a little bit about his current on-going experience of trying to break into the Japanese music industry. If you missed this show, unfortunately, you missed out on a lot of laughs, a chance to get teary eyed and the possibility of swooning (he sang live on the show). You'll just have to wait until we post the show on youtube.

Not only is he great with writing about personal experiences (check out the song '300 Pianos' and 'Fool'), he is surprisingly down to earth and charming.

Andy Suzuki is John Mayer meets Sara Bareilles. Imagine their half-Asian lovechild. Then add an electric violinist who solos like a lead guitarist and a percussionist who swings his dreds harder than anyone ever asks him to. The outcome is Andy Suzuki & The Method.

Andy Suzuki is a half-Japanese, half-Jewish singer-songwriter based in NYC who writes songs in English and performs Japanese cover songs by artists such as Angela Aki and Naotarou Moriyama. Check him out at the links below:

http://www.myspace.com/andysuzukimusic
http://www.twitter.com/andysuzukimusic
http://www.youtube.com/andysuzukimusic
http://www.facebook.com/andysuzukimusic

HOW TO GET ANDY'S FREE EP: "Free Hundred Pianos"
email andy at andy.suzuki.music@gmail.com to get the link to download his free EP, "Free Hundred Pianos," which contains 6 songs from his full-length studio release, "300 Pianos." If you want all 13 songs, look for him on iTunes, Rhapsody, AmazonMP3, etc

HOW TO GET ANDY TO PLAY AT A COLLEGE/CLUB/COFFEESHOP/HIGH SCHOOL NEAR YOU:
email andy at andy.suzuki.music@gmail.com with your idea!

Thirsty for more? Check out Daehyun Kim's and The Korean Pop Addicts articles about him here and here (respectively)!!

Info about Andy Suzuki

On Thursday we played a song by Andy Suzuki who is a singer/song writer who recently released an album titled "300 Pianos". Although he sings mostly English songs, he is also thinking about breaking into the Japanese industry. Hear his cover of Angela Aki's "Tegami", which we played on Thursday, here. We'll be doing an interview with him this Thursday (November 5, 2009) so if anyone has questions for him leave a comment or shoot us an e-mail.

Here is the link to "Tegami" by Angela Aki herself. It's a wonderful song which carries a lot of meaning. The side panel has English translations worth checking out, so please do.