Kavka Shishido

Biography Shishido was born in Mexico in 1985 to Japanese parents. She lived there until she was two, later going to Japan for elementary school. She was first taught the basics of drumming at 14, by Daniel "Pipi" Piazzolla, a drummer and grandson of tango musician Astor Piazzolla. In 2005, Shishido started collaborating with The High-Lows' drummer Kenji Ohshima and Uverworld producer Satoru Hiraide, and made a band called Eddy12 (stylized as eddy12) together. During this period, Shishido started to perform in her signature style, performing the drums and singing simultaneously.

In September, it was announced that Shishido had switched labels to the newly created Justa Music, a sub-label of Avex Group, and would star in the second series of Erika Sawajiri fashion drama First Class. Her first release under the label is the song "Don't Be Love" featuring veteran singer-songwriter Kazuyoshi Saito, and will be used as the theme song of the 2015 Fuji Television drama Isha-tachi no Ren'ai Jijō. This song also serves as the leading track from K5, a special extended play where Shishido will collaborate with five different musicians, released in June 2015.

Other ventures Since her debut as a musician, Shishido has worked as a runway model. Since October 21, 2018 Shishido Kavka and Santiago Vazquez invite several musicians to an improvised presentation called "el tempo", which interacts with the public through hand signals, inspired by the events “LA BOMBA DE TIEMPO” and “LA GRANDE” that have been taking place since 2006 in Buenos Aires, where she grew up.

Products and endorsements Shishido starred in her first nationwide commercial for Glico's snack food Pretz, which debuted in February 2013. It features Shishido playing the drums in the Strahov Monastery library in Prague.

Discography Studio albums + List of albums, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak positions Sales (JPN) JPN Kavkanize Released: September 4, 2013 Label: Imperial Records Formats: CD, CD/DVD, digital download 31 6,000 Released: April 27, 2016 Label: Avex Trax Formats: CD, CD/DVD, CD/Blu-ray, digital download 75 DOUBLE TONE Released: July 25, 2018 Label: Avex Trax

Extended plays + List of extended plays, with selected chart positions Title Album details Peak positions Sales (JPN) 2012 — 15Kavkanize 59 7 2,000 "Music" 2013 87 12 2,000 63 14 2,000 2014 52 20 2,000 Kavkanize (Deluxe Edition) — — 76

As a featured artist Title Year Peak chart positions AlbumOricon Singles Charts (featuring Kazuyoshi Saito) 2015 53 K5 / Toridori (featuring Hiroto Kōmoto (The Cro-Magnons)) — "Crying" 2016 — Toridori — feat. Ken Yokoyama with Crazy Ken Band 2017 — DOUBLE TONE — "zamza" feat. Nobuaki Kaneko — "Hold My Hand" 2019 —

Participation in albums

Television