Minoru Ohsawa

Self-educated Japanese amateur(ex-pro in France). Officially been said to be incompetent(worse than beginner) in Japan for I didn't get Japanese music education, the best in the world. Started guitar, composition and improvisation at 18. Influenced by PROG (Claude Debussy, Sergei Prokofiev, Daniel Gildenlöw, Keith Emerson , Jon Anderson & Steve Howe, Roger Waters, Gary Wehrkamp) Studied the playing of John Petrucci, Nuno Bettencourt, Manuel Barueco. So I see them as my guitar teachers. Also was at Paris CNR. (unfortunately, learned nothing there because of everyday work to live on and buy instruments and gears, and of slave-like errand by professor for I was only one who wasn't from extreme rich class, except for Mm...