In high school, he formed the band "Death" with his classmate Kyosuke Himuro and others[1][Note 3]. In 1979, the band won a prize in the East West contest.

Scouted by Being and moved to Tokyo, but "Death" will not debut, and the band will be disintegrated in the air[Note 4]. In 1980, Tetsuro Oda's band "Tetsuro Oda & 9th IMAGE" joined as a bassist and made his professional debut[2], Disbanded due to discord between members[3 ]。 After that, I heard from Tetsuro Oda that Himuro and Torayasu Hotei were trying to form a band[3], joined the two in September of the same year. In 1982, he re-debuted as the bassist of BOØWY with "MORAL".