Tigarah
Sign in to saveTigarah () is a Japanese house and dance music DJ and producer. She studied politics at Keio University in Tokyo. She is known as the first Japanese Baile Funk rapper at the beginning of her career and now she is a house and dance music producer currently based in Paris, France.
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After contemplating a career as a politician or ambassador, TIGARAH felt she could best speak her mind if she made music her life. So, shortly after majoring in political science at Tokyo's renowned Keio University, she started writing songs on her own in her tiny room in Tokyo, inspired by the Baile Funk ("Funk Party", which is, despite the name, completely different from regular funk) music from Brazil. In several trips to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tigarah
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- 1991-11-14
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- 2006-00-00
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Tigarah () is a Japanese house and dance music DJ and producer. She studied politics at Keio University in Tokyo. She is known as the first Japanese Baile Funk rapper at the beginning of her career and now she is a house and dance music producer currently based in Paris, France.
Tigarah's time in LA, along with her first EP, created a buzz which landed her "It-girl" status in the global market. Her features in publications such as Los Angeles Times, Dazed & Confused, Rolling Stone, VH1 and many more, leading to four of her songs being used for EA Sports, FIFA 2008 & 2009, FaceBreaker and Need for Speed: Carbon.