Sakai

Sakai was born in Shizuoka Japan in 1966. He began playing as a professional guitarist in the Tokyo area in 1989, proceeding to play in many genres (jazz, blues, pop, Latin, Brazilian, folk, rock etc). He moved to New York City in 1995 where he is most active in Bossa Nova. Renowned Japanese composer Oda Yuichiro (Seiko Matsuda, Anri, Hidemi Ishikawa, Toshihiko Tahara etc.) produced Sakai's first album of original material, Gradation - Bossa Nova No Kaze, in 2011.