Tsunku

Tsunku (つんく♂), real name Terada Mitsuo, is a record producer, songwriter and composer, and singer.

Profile

• Real Name: Terada Mitsuo (寺田 光男)
• Birthday: October 29, 1968
• Birthplace: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
• Height: 170 cm
• Blood type: B
• Band: Sharam Q (vocalist)

Information

Tsunku is the producer of and mastermind behind Hello! Project, TNX, and NICE GIRL Project, as well as producer of some non-Hello! Project acts such as Deka Moni and EE JUMP. He writes nearly all of the songs for his artists. He also releases his own records occasionally, his most recent being "V3~Seishun Cover~". He released two solo photobooks, Tsunku Photo gift in Las Vegas and Hawaii~COOL~ and Tsunku Photo gift in Las Vegas and Hawaii~Natural~, on September 6, 2005. He has co-hosted the TV show Pop Jam and he has his own Web-TV show called Tsunku tv!!! (つんく♂tv!!!).

In June 2006 Tsunku married Idemitsu Kanako (出光加奈子), a 25-year old former model from Fukuoka.

Discography

Singles

• [1999.11.03] Touch me

Albums

• [2000.12.06] A Hard Day's Night
• [2004.02.18] TAKE 1
• [2005.07.13] Type2 (タイプ２)
• [2006.06.28] V3~Seishun Cover~ (V3～青春カバー～)

Collaborations

• [1999.04.24] LOVE ~Dakiatte~ (LOVE～抱き合って～)
• [2002.02.27] Suggoine! (すっごいね！) (as The Tsunku Bi♂To (ＴＨＥつんくビ♂ト))

Compilations

• [2007.09.26] Tsunku Best Sakuhin Shuu Ue 'Sharam Q ~ Morning Musume' ~Tsunku♂ Geinou Seikatsu 15 Shuunen Kinen Album (つんく♂ベスト作品集 上 「シャ乱Q~モーニング娘。」~つんく♂芸能生活15周年記念アルバム~)
• [2007.12.05] Tsunku Best Sakuhin Shuu Shita 'Sharam Q ~ Morning Musume' ~Tsunku♂ Geinou Seikatsu 15 Shuunen Kinen Album (つんく♂ベスト作品集 下 「シャ乱Q~モーニング娘。」~つんく♂芸能生活15周年記念アルバム~)

External links

• Official Website, Official Blog
• Tsunku tv on the streaming video site "Kokuchi-ch!!"
• Wikipedia: English, Japanese