SEPHA :
Multi-Artist - Composer/ Singer Songwriter/ Improvisationist/ Multi-Instrumentalist/ Painter/ Poet/ Planet XG/ Walking Art and more
SEPHA was born in the Ocean, and grew up in Outer Space, with Cosmic Language, and she came into the world with the name "SEPHA", which means “boundless evolution and transcending made by infinitely rotating sphere”.
SEPHA has been keeping on expressing various kinds of beauties in various kinds of love in multidimensional ways through her various kinds of art activities beyond boundaries of categories and the world.
Her own unique sound and music style beyond music categories like crossover music mainly come not only from many year’s accumulated her own experiences through various kinds of her art activities as an Multi- Artist, but also from the elements of improvisation and freestyle of her own a lot.
First, when she started out her own art activities seriously in the mid 1980's, her main art activity was painting.
*For her painting works overview, please see on here.
What provided her a turning point to lead her to get involved with music activity more and seriously, that was meeting a guitar by chance as a new instrument other than painting brushes to express herself. Then, she started to make sounds in her own way with the guitar rather than playing it, and soon she started out to do her own guitar performances on streets in Tokyo without knowing how to play the instrument actually at that time.
Her own particular and unique way of playing guitar style - the sound mixed with bass guitar and percussive sound even with often her louder stomping the beat makes her own groove impromptu, that started to draw more people's attentions with time, and she got an offer to join a project by avant-garde musicians, then she moved to L.A. in 1990 for joining a project.
Since then, with moving from place to place, this independent multi-artist SEPHA has been doing her various kinds of music/art activities for Love, Aesthetics of diversity, and harmony, nearly for two decades through the world, including joining and supporting other artists’ projects, and working with wonderfuｌ professional musicians she greatly respects like Lonnie Plaxico (a great Jazz Bassist known also as Cassandra Wilson’s music director, worked also with Art Blakey, and many greats and more), Gary Fritz (a great Percussionist working/ worked also with George Benson, Roberta Flack, The Brand New Heavies, and many greats and more), Marvin J.Sewell (a great Guitarist working/ worked with Jack Dejohnette, Cassandra Wilson, and many greats and more) etc.
*For more detail, please see The Projects Overview
The live tours/ art projects “Words like winds” and “Cosmic Language” are some of the representative music/art projects of this artist, which were held in 90’s at N.Y., L.A., London, Paris, Tokyo. With featured “Cosmic Language” this artist often uses, and based on this concept, the most songs were created with producing new ways of her singing, and released mainly between 1993 and 2000.
Then after that time, she created her own video art, and she released several songs for the video art works under the name of “Offbeat Gurl”, which the music is Acid Music tinged with electro and techno music tastes different from the music she had created. and she increased and expanded her activity also to nightclubs for dance music mainly in Tokyo and Sydney, to perform music with her video art works under the name, especially from 1999 to 2003.
In 2005, she set up the art project “Planet XG” in Tokyo for a humanitarian purpose, which is an expanding love project in cosmic scale with seeking after the aesthetics of diversity and the harmony, and started also the activity in Tokyo for the project.
In this art project, she organizes and produces the performing/ conceptual art events and she also has been doing her own unique performing arts with her own original music every time she writes for the stage in each event of them since 2005.