Akimasa Nihongi (b. 8 August 1983) is an actor and musician from Tokyo, Japan. He started his entertainment activities when he was eleven years old. He was a member of the largest idol production in Japan named Johnny`s Production from 1996 through 1998. He started playing the guitar when he was fourteen. In 1998, he relocated to Los Angeles, California from Japan. There he joined an American progressive rock band called Black Crown, later named No Curfew, as a guitar player when he was sixteen years old, and signed with the record label Polydor. They had a major tour and promotions around the U.S. and Europe. The band broke up in 2001. Nihongi moved to the east coast of Tenafly, New Jersey in 2002, where he formd an ethnic rock duet group named Gen-so fantasia (GSF) with Er-hu player Jack Hsu, playing around bars and resturants. In the winter of 2003 he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved back to Japan and started his musical career as a professional songwriter in Autumn 2005, working with Ricky, the producer who produced the Japanese rap group m-flo.

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Black Crown Band profile