Make-Up

There are 2 bands under this name: 1) MAKE-UP was a Japanese band responsible for the theme songs from the anime Saint Seiya "Pegasus Fantasy" (1st opening theme) and "Blue Forever" (1st ending theme). The band also recorded three albums with songs inspired by the same anime: Saint Seiya Hits I, Saint Seiya Hits II and Saint Seiya 1996 Song Collection. In 1984 they performed their first show and released their first two albums: Howling Will and Straight Liner. In 1985, they released their third album Born to Be Hard and their fourth and final album Rock Legend of Boys and Girls.

1) MAKE-UP was a Japanese band responsible for the theme songs from the anime Saint Seiya "Pegasus Fantasy" (1st opening theme) and "Blue Forever" (1st ending theme).
The band also recorded three albums with songs inspired by the same anime: Saint Seiya Hits I, Saint Seiya Hits II and Saint Seiya 1996 Song Collection.

In 1984 they performed their first show and released their first two albums: Howling Will and Straight Liner.
In 1985, they released their third album Born to Be Hard and their fourth and final album Rock Legend of Boys and Girls.
In 1986, the band is invited by Columbia Records to sing the Saint Seiya theme songs. Pegasus Fantasy came to be one of the most well-known anime songs of all time.

After the Saint Seiya albums, the band split up and each member followed their own solo careers.

In 2004, Columbia Records released Make-Up 20th Anniversary Memories of Blue, a box that included five CDs and a live DVD, but no new song was recorded.

2009/12/16 mini album ?The Voice From Yesterday? released

Band members:
Nobuo "Nob" Yamada - Lead vocals
Hiroaki Matsuzawa - Guitar
Y?go K?no - Keyboards
Yasuyoshi Ikeda - Bass guitar
Yoshihiro Toyokawa - Drums


2)Make-Up is a group which composes superior, original music, performs that music dynamically in spaces and nightclubs, and organizes the performances at which they appear across the U.S.A. These performances have been characterized by the freneticism, catharsis and spirituality of what can only be described as GOSPEL MUSIC. They are a total departure from the boring pantomime of rock 'n' roll as we know it, inflicting a sublime theatre on their audience which resembles a baptism, or perhaps an orgy. Their 'singer' is typically employed as a lead-chanter, while the others perpetrate a rhythmic drone on the subjects of their "Rhythm Hive". They are, on guitar, microphone and organ, James Canty; on center microphone, Ian Svenonius; on bass guitar and microphone, Michelle Mae and on the drum kit, Steve Gamboa. Ian, Steve and James once were part of the Nation of Ulysses, while Michelle took part in a project called Frumpies. The three were from Washington, DC while the one was from Olympia, Washington, but they formed in February 1995 to present their international vision to a world they are sure is steeped in stultifying cynicism.

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