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Toru Yamashita

Born
Dec 7, 1988 · Age 37
Place of birth
Ōsaka, Ōsaka, Japan
Gender
Male
Movie credits
18
TV credits
2
Also known as (2)
  • 山下亨
  • ONE OK ROCK

Biography

Toru Yamashita, known mononymously as Toru, is a Japanese musician and the guitarist and leader of the band ONE OK ROCK. With two other men, Kohei and Takuya, Toru and Ryota formed a hip-hop dance group called Heads when they were fifth and sixth-graders. They participated in dance competitions in the late 1990s, between the years 1995 to 1999. Heads debuted with a single entitled "screeeem!" in July 2000 and followed with "Gooood or Bad!" in November, produced for Amuse, Inc. Heads disbanded in 2002, and in 2003 they took a break to improve their abilities. They merged into a new group with…