Биография

Toshifumi Hinata was born in Tokyo on February 23, 1955. After graduating from high school in 1973 he spent some time working at a motorcycle company in Farnham in Surrey, England before enrolling in Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin in 1975 and then transferred to Berkley College of Music in 1976. In August of 1978 he moved to Minnesota and enrolled at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. 
Over the next four years he majored in classical piano and studied theory, composition and orchestration. In 1982 following his graduation he started working as a musician in Minnesota. In 1985 he released his first solo album Sara’s Crime under Alfa Records in Japan. He followed this up with his second album Chat D’Ete and third Reality In Love in 1986. In 1987 he released his fourth album Story and in 1988 released his first piano solo album Isis. 
He has continued to consistently release solo albums. His most well-known song is perhaps “Reflections” from his 1986 record Reality in Love which has amassed 70M+ streams across platforms. It was also used in the 2020 Netflix film Tigertail as well as Amazon Prime’s 2018 series Forever along with his track “Menuet” from the same record. His track “Ode to the Unknown” was also used the in 2005 film Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl. Toshifumi most recently co-wrote “Weekend” with rapper Ombachi for Amazon’s 2022 film Emergency starring Sabrina Carpenter. 
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