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Artist
claquepot
12+ albums
japan
about
Biography Taiki was born on June 28, 1987. As a child, he liked playing inside the house, and after that his father was rough on him and told him to go outside more. He liked trying things that he had never done, that's why he became a member of every committee in his elementary school. He was shown to like dancing since he was young. When he entered high school, he went to a studio and met AAA's Nishijima Takahiro there. Nishijima said he would go to Tokyo to join Avex, and so Taiki thought he also wanted to go there. While going to high school, he wrote out applications to many different agencies, and finally he went to Tokyo after graduating high school. There he joined an artist agency. After an acquaintance with an avex staff, who was Da-iCE's founder, he decided to enter avex and join Da-iCE. In Da-iCE, he met Sota and Yudai first, when they were recording a demo of a song. At first, it was easiest for him to get along with Toru because they are at a same age. The age gap between Taiki and Hayate was quite big, but to him, when it comes to dance ability, age doesn't matter. In 2011, he started his solo career under the stage name 'claquepot'. Overview claquepot is a singer-songwriter, composer and producer that made his debut in 2011. He always hides his face in his music videos and live performances. He said it's because he doesn't want people's first impression of him to be his appearance, but his voice, his songs' melody and lyrics.[2] He was known to most peo
