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ZAQ (born March 16, 1988) is a female Japanese singer-songwriter signed to Lantis. ZAQ began to learn the piano at age three. During her college years, her idol was Minori Chihara, and it was during this time she decided to become a singer. However, she failed all her auditions. In junior high school, ZAQ's favorite bands were Mongol800 and Going Steady, two rock groups which she was addicted to. She is self-taught in composing and her works were characterized by a unique style which is unrestricted by music theory and musicology. She started writing songs for other artists in 2012,...

This group, "Le Grand Uff Zaque", is exceptionally unconventional. It has a firm base in Jazz, Hip-Hop, Standards, House and many more styles - i.e. they know what the play and have their complete own way of playing. They are completely anarchistic since they don't care about "style" - that's what makes them so intriguing. Listen to them on MySpace and better: go to one of their gigs. Laura has a very personal, "adult" voice and conveys wonderful individuel emotions, Max is the crazy and inventive keyboarder (he even plays the Beethoven Pathetique introduction with applomb), Marcel and his sexy...