Masaharu Fukuyama is a Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, actor, radio personality, and photographer from Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture.
Brave Brothers is a famous Korean producer who previously worked with artists such as BIG BANG, Son Dam Bi (손담비), After School, Minwoo, U-KISS etc.
Hikaru Utada known by her stage name Utada in America and Europe, is a Japanese-American singer, song writer, and producer.
Billy Crawford, born William Joe Crawford, is a Filipino-American musician and actor with musical influences from R&B, pop, and soul. Crawford became known in Europe and Asia with song titles such as "Trackin’", "When You Think About Me", "Never My Love", "Steamy Nights" and "Bright Lights". Crawford is multilingual, being fluent in two Philippine languages, his native Tagalog as well as Cebuano. His second language is English and he is conversational in French.
Crawford not only lived in New York City, USA, but also in Paris for five years and for one year in London. He currently resides in Los Angeles as of 2007. In 2008, he went to Manila to host Pinoy Dream Academy’s uberture. He has also hosted the prestigious Miss Earth 2008 held in the Philippines.
Marifil Niña Giradoorn, best known simply as Nina, is a Filipino pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and commercial model. Girado has released multiplatinum records in the Philippines and is also known as the "Asia’s Soul Siren". She is sister of singer Filbert “King” Girado, Jr. She has released seven albums and performs at bars such as Taboo Ultra Lounge, Bagaberde Grill, Hard Rock Cafe, 19 East, Club-O and can be seen on TV via the musical variety show ASAP on ABS-CBN. She can be heard on her weekly radio show on Wave 89.1 radio station, "Renditions of the Soul".
Her album Nina Live! is the biggest selling album by a female OPM artist, and the fourth biggest selling album in OPM History, next to Eraserheads’ Cutterpillow, and Jose Mari Chan’s Christmas In Our Hearts and Constant Change. Nina is the first and only female OPM artist (third overall) to achieve a Diamond album award.
Regine Velasquez, born Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez, is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer, TV host, stage director, fashion designer, and commercial and print model. She is dubbed as the Asia’s Songbird after winning the 1989 Asia Pacific Singing Contest in Hong Kong and is widely known for possessing a wide vocal range.
Velasquez was the first Filipino to stage a solo concert at the Main Hall of Carnegie Hall, part of Carnegie Hall’s centennial-year concert series. In 2000, she performed the country’s millennial theme, televised in 55 broadcast networks throughout the world to coincide with midnight in Manila.
Ryan Cayabyab, born Raymundo Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab but affectionately known as Mr. C, is a Filipino musician and was the Executive and Artistic Director of the defunct San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts. He was also a resident judge for the only season of Philippine Idol in 2006.
His works range from commissioned full-length ballets, theater musicals, choral pieces, a Mass set to unaccompanied chorus, and orchestral pieces, to commercial recordings of popular music, film scores and television specials.
Edgardo Jose Martin Santiago Valenciano, better known as Gary Valenciano or Gary V., is a Filipino musician. His energetic dance moves also garnered him the nickname "Mr. Pure Energy." He has released 26 albums, and won the Awit Award for "Best Male Performer" 11 times. In 1998 he became the first UNICEF National Ambassador of Goodwill for the Philippines. He is currently part of ABS-CBN contract actors.
Valenciano started performing in 1982 and launched his career in singing and show business on May 13, 1983. He first appeared as a solo in a television show called The Pilita and Jackie Show in 1982, but he was finally noticed after his performances in the TV shows Germspesyal and Penthouse Live. He had his first solo concert, in April 1984, inside the jam-packed Araneta Coliseum. That would be followed by 21 albums, three of them released internationally, including a Christian inspired album called Out of the Dark.
Park Jin-young also known as J.Y. Park (or simply JYP) is a singer, songwriter, record producer and the current CEO/founder of JYP Entertainment, a major artist management/record label of Asian pop music. Over the past 11 years. Park has become a prominent producer, composer, and artist, becoming the only Asian producer to cross over into the US market. He has since also started his own management company, JYP Entertainment.
Shaun Yong Bang is a Singaporean Singer and Song Writer, he has lived in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore. those experiences have largely broadened his musical horizons.
Linda Chung
Nicholas Teo
Sponge Cola (Album)
Renditions of the Soul (Album)