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There are several bands with the name TOKIO. 1) TOKIO (Japan) is a popular band which is part of the Japanese idol company Johnny's Entertainment. The group is made up of the leader Joshima Shigeru (guitar), Yamaguchi Tatsuya (bass), Kokubun Taichi (keyboards), Matsuoka Masahiro (drums) and Nagase Tomoya (vocals/guitar). In 2004 they celebrated their 10th anniversary with the release of the cover album "TOK10". Besides their music careers, the members of Tokio also can be seen in movies, TV dramas and variety shows. In the start of March 2008 Tatchan (Yamaguchi Tatsuya) announced his marriage to a former model (named...

Tokio Hotel is a German band founded in Magdeburg, Germany in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schäfer. The four met in 2001 after a live show in a Magdeburg club, where Listing and Schäfer, who knew each other from music school, watched from the audience while Bill and Tom Kaulitz played on the stage. After Bill Kaulitz’s participation in a children’s Star Search in 2003 at age thirteen (which he lost in the quarter-final), he was discovered by music producer Peter Hoffmann. Devilish changed their name to Tokio Hotel: “Tokio” is...

Funkadelic was originally the backing band for the doo wop group, Parliament. The band was added in 1964, primarily for tours, and consisted of Frankie Boyce, Richard Boyce and Langston Booth. They enlisted in the army in 1966, and George Clinton (the leader of Parliament) recruited Billy Bass Nelson and Eddie Hazel in 1967, then also adding Tawl Ross and Tiki Fulwood. Due to legal difficulties between Clinton and Revilot, The Parliaments' label, the name was abandoned in favor of Funkadelic, which consisted of the same group of people (that is, both the former Parliaments and their back-up band, now...

Funkaho, together with his backup singer Robin and army of evil goats, recorded three cassette-only EPs at M&A Laundromat in Oakland, CA, in 1998. Funkaho was in and out of trouble with the Oakland Police Dept., who dubbed him “Funk's first super villain.” Funkaho's heavy funk, space-jam-influenced, evil vibe caught the attention of Peanut Butter Wolf when he heard the music booming from a mini-truck outside his house at 4 am in the morning. Stones Throw Records released “My 2600” as the first of its Jukebox 45 Series that kicked off in the summer of 1999, and the Villain Style...