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My wife and I originally met in NY and reconnected here in Los Angeles when she decided to move and focus on the film and television world. I grew up in an academic film family and I have worked in the music industry for almost all of my life. Fatefully we attended a charity casino night for the Directors Caucus where I won a silent auction for my wife to have a lunch with the late great Garry Marshall. He and his right hand executive, Heather Hall, instantly became family. Garry’s advice was to write and produce your own stories! We’ve tried to honor his wisdom ever since. Wraptastic Productions was born out of those words and has given us a platform to write, produce, and create all kinds of content that hopefully educates and entertains our audience.

I started as a ballet dancer when I was 5 years old in my hometown in Japan. I was a ballerina for 5 years; however, my school got busy so I ended up quitting. After 11 years, I restarted my dance journey. I was a basketball player in my middle school, and even though I was really into it, my dream back then was to become a backup dancer for this one artist group there; they have dancers and singer in a group and perform as a whole. When I was in high school, I started to train in Hip Hop, Jazz, Contemporary, Lock, House, and Krump in those three years to experience as much as I can.

Then, I moved to Tokyo for university(it was kind of my excuse to train in tokyo), trained under s**t kingz, a world widely well-known Japanese dance artist team, Yoshiki, dancer who experience so many stages as a back up dancers in Japan, and many more well known choreographers. By training those years, I discovered dance community in LA through YouTube such as Brian Puspos, Shaun Evaristo, Ian Eastwood, Jonny Erazme, Amanda Grind, Lyle Beniga and many more. My feeling wanting to train in LA was born, and I decided to travel back and forth Japan and LA from 2013 to 2015 to train there.

Through that, I met Keone and Mari Madrid, who are well known choreographer/dancer from San Diego, in Japan. I fell in love with their perspective in dance, and wanted to train/dance with them. I needed that to become true. So when I was visiting to LA, I tripped down to SD just to train with them. After building relationship with them, I had an idea to move to the US. One day, I saw the IG post saying Keone and Mari are going to leave their professional dance team, Choreo Cookies, and I decided to move to the states. I didn’t want to wait any more to make a move. Remind you, I was attending university at the time, and i was third year; however, I decided to leave there.

6 months later from that point, I was here in the states. I first was training in LA, but I ended up moving to San Diego because I wanted to train with Keone and Mari, as well as, wanted to join Choreo Cookies. I worked hard to become a part of San Diego dance community ,but at the same time, it was such an organic process. It happened really naturally. I was given opportunities to perform with San Diego community dancers in many places such as Bay area, worked with Keone and Mari, trained so much both in SD and LA to grow and become a better dancer.
In the end of 2017, I became a member of Choreo Cookies which is my dream team, world winning dance team, the team that Keone and Mari was on, as a first international member. Through this experience, I want to tell all international folks who want to achieve their dream that nothing is impossible.

From there, it was just ups and ups. I got to travel to Singapore for performing dance show and teaching there, went to Canada as a guest performer, performed in many competitions and winning or placing them and many more. Aside from achievements with Choreo Cookies, I was able to work with Sorah Yang, a choreographer, still going back to Japan and worked with Ian Eastwood, Keone and Mari, and many more.

In 2019, I was able to sign with one of greatest agency in the US, Go 2 Talent Agency. This whole journey connected to this moment. GTA resonate with my personal work ethic, and I truly admire all the talents there; I became one of them. From that point, I was able to work with paid jobs here in LA such as be a part of Daddy Yankee’s Music Video, which has 672 million views, performing at Latin AMA with Daddy Yankee, performing with Amber Liu at Unforgettable Gala, and so on.

I grew up in San Diego California in a small section known as Lil Afrika. Sex, guns and murder you name it I seen it, I lived it.
I started out Djing parties back in the mid 90’s for local cliques then ventured into battling, The art of scratching, beat juggling and mixing fascinated me to where it consumed my life, I would be in my bedroom with the homies for hours just mixing and scratching, coming up with battle routines. Eventually I started making the transition into music production and song writing. Creative writing was something I was always good at and when you write from the heart, from your experiences it broadens the way you think and the way you express your experiences whether they be positive or negative life changing experiences.