Jimi

Jimi

Setsuo Miyashita (Jimmy Miyashita) Suntourist, Music Therapist Born February 27, 1955 in Izumi City, Kagoshima. He studied under PT. Shiv Kumar Sharma, a world-famous santoor player and living national treasure, in Mumbai, India since 1992. He has appeared on NHK and many other TV and radio programs in Japan and India. He has released many healing CDs, including "Tenku no Otozuku". In March 2005, he performed at the "Durpad Mela Music Festival" and "Ashutosh Bhattacharya Memorial Concert" in Varanasi, India, and received high praise from local newspapers and other media. In January 2006, he was recognized as the best performer at the Purti Shruti Music Festival in Bhopal, India, organized by the Drupad Singers Gundecha Brothers. In March 2008, he was honored for his contribution to Indian classical music at the Baiju Bhavra Sangeet Samarohas Festival in Varanasi. He has performed with many of the world's leading artists, including Tai Baho, the younger brother of tabla master Zakir Hussain, and Gina Sara, the diva of Cirque du Soleil. In 2016, he formed an electro-ambient santur unit, Crystal Nada, and released her first CD, PRASAD. He has been actively performing both in Japan and abroad, mainly in India, and teaching the younger generation at the "Indian Classical Music Center, Saraswati". She has been organizing "Sangeet Mehra", a festival of Indian classical music and dance, in Gifu and Hodo for 19 years. In January 2017, he was selected as one of the "8 Foreign Indian Classical Musicians Active in the World" by the Indian media site "BETTER INDIA". http://www.thebetterindia.com/81965/foreigners-indian-classical- music/ He was invited to perform at the International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh, India in 2018 & 2019. Received an award. He was invited to perform at 2019 Bali Spilit Festival.