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| Name |
Rika
Iino |
| Title |
Music
Director |
| Sign |
Gemini,
Year of the Snake (Blood Type: B for those of you
curious!) |
| Little
Years |
Tokyo,
Japan. Starts piano at age 3. Tours the
US and Japan at age 9 as part of Suzuki Ten Children.
Swimming, Calligraphy, Dance, Soccer. Morning math
drills and night (cram) schools. 15 minutes of Doraemon. Nick name: "Iinogundan:
The Iino Clan" |
| Surprise |
Spends
a year studying piano and German in
Austria. Couldn't handle the food after a while and
puts herself on tuna and cucumber diet and loses a
lot of weight, but learns a lot of music, German,
and how to live happily and humbly in a small,
lovely, rural town. |
| Schools |
Philip
Exeter Academy, Columbia University |
| NYC
Arrival |
1997 |
| College |
Begins
composing (and even wins some composition awards),
directing and producing fashion shows, musicals and
charity events. Dabbles in economic studies. Spends summers in Japan
working at summer music festivals and other
entertainment gigs. |
| Post-College |
3
or so day jobs later (in music, fashion and
publishing), starts her own company, SOZO
MEDIA, a boutique marketing and production
company. |
| Now |
Produces,
directs and promotes artists, live shows, festivals and other various
fun projects, from hip-hop to classical to
everything in between. |
| She
likes... |
Japanese
food, teas, the color black, Hawaii, travel, photography,
organization, clean and modern design, technology
and gadgets, animals, fashion, big cities, hot
springs, Murakami books, beats, massages, Face
of Another (book and film), working with good people. |
| She
doesn't like... |
Shiitake,
crowded shopping places, old and dirty places, rudeness,
greasy food. |
| Future |
Good |
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"...their
collaborative process is crucial to the production, in
which the musical and visual elements are as important to
the storytelling as the script..." -Cleveland
Free Times |
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