Daisuke Asakura was born in Asakusa (a place in Tokyo) on November 4, 1967.
He began to use synthesizers when he was a high school student.
and he can manipulate them like his hand and foot.
Through the career of a manipulator of TMN, and a support member of that,
He came out as a solo artist on November 1, 1991
with his first album "LANDING TIMEMACHINE".
A unit named [access](Keyboard: Daisuke Asakura & Vocal: Hiroyuki Takami)
came out with "VIRGIN EMOTION" on November 25, 1992.
After that, They sent out many hit tunes.
[access] suspended activity by "graduation" of Takami in 1995.
And Asakura started to produce artists.
Takanori Nishikawa, one of the guest vocalists of
Asakura's 3rd. album "ELECTROMANCER",
was produced as [T.M.Revolution] by Asakura, and made a great success.
By that success, Asakura comes to be known as a popular producer in Japan.
He also produces Kinya Kotani, Yosuke Sakanoue, RUN&GUN, etc.
A unit named [Iceman]
(Keyboard: Daisuke Asakura, Guitar: Kenichi Ito & Vocal: Michihiro Kuroda)
formed in 1996. (Now Iceman has stopped activity, and Kuroda left the unit in 2001)
In 2001 Asakura performed gigs named "21st fortune" for every season.
access resumed activity in 2002.
He is known also as a Disney fan and a dog lover.
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