Lisa-X has played with a rotating cast of characters. Hazuki is a regular. The craziest one is Billy Sheehan, who recorded at least one track with Lisa-X. She is the real deal, and it just remains to be seen how they manage things with Koiai. Hazuki isn't leaving Nemophila, so she'll just be very busy. Sato-san (Kanade Sato), their new drummer, also has mulitple other gigs including being a member of Muses--another band that you have to check out, it will take you down the Japanese jazz/fusion/funk rabbit hole, and lead you to insane talents like Juna Serita, Rie, and eventually Senri.

Thank you supporting Lisa and Koiai. A little background information to add to what’s been said. Koiai had their first India tour last February (2023). Great documentary video on that. For the tour, Lisa was supported by Hazuki, their current lead vocalist Kotono, Kanade on drums (now official member) and her brother on bass. They held their first concert in Japan a few months ago with their second concert scheduled in early March 2024. For those two concerts the bass player was and will be Wakazaemon. Love the energy Wakazaemon brings. They released two shorter CDs over the past few months. Both CDs were around 5-6 songs, but I need to grab mine to confirm. There are some harder tracks on the albums, but generally tend to be more pop/rock oriented mixed with guitar shredding.

Rina was the singer for the Lisa X band, but she left the band, and they formed a new band named Koiai with Hazuki and Lisa X with Kotono as the new vocalist.

Rina was an amazing singer, she left the Li-sa-X band, so Li-sa-x and Hazuki were joined by a new singer called Kotono to form KOIAI, and they have now a new drummer.

I recommand LiSA-X's Satriani cover "Satch Boogie" with fantastic drummer Yoyoka - you'll love it! About the "effortless" part: she made a video about her progression from the age of ... 3 untill now and there has actually been A LOT of work and effort of course 😉

If you liked Rina here, try the Li-Sa-X Band song Looking Up To You. Her voice will blow your mind on that one. Sadly she isn't with them anymore.

Li-sa-X was already a rockstar when her peers were still watching Sesame Street. The only thing that I am slightly worried about is that Hazuki might not be able to stay too long with KOIAI because NEMOPHILA has gained so much popularity that it is already playing the larger arenas in Japan. We all remember what happened to Saki when she had to choose between NEMO and Mary's Blood, right?

Hazuki wrote this fantastic song. Rina is a phenomenal singer. All the Lisa-x band songs are great. Try Looking Up to You (mv). The Koiai songs are more poppy and not nearly as good

I’ll try this from memory, peeps can fill in gaps… LisaX started guitar by age 5. By age 8 her RacerX covers(speed/shred) were award winning on yourTub and she’d adopted the stage name. RacerX guitarist (also of MrBig, who are huge in japan) Paul Gilbert publicly offered her free lessons. By age 11 she was signed to Sony for her prog/fusion instrumentals. Her career was slowed tho by continuing to attend regularly scheduled/paced schooling. After an EP and a full length, she used 3/5s of Disqualia to back her live shows (Prior she’d played to tracks, tho some high profile gigs, sponsoring credit cards, Toyota, endorsed by Ibanez, MarkAmps, guesting on pop songs, playing fashion shows, touring with Polyphia, featured at NAMM multiple times, jamming with greats like Kiko Loureiro, Bumblefoot, Mateus Asato, Marty Friedman, & Guthrie Govan). Hazuki (from Disquaia, Rami, LisaX Band, later Nemophila & Koiai, endorsed by Ibanez) joined & then introduced/recruited singer Rina (absolutely superior singer imho, good English lyricist too). But over LisaX’s high school years they only released 4 songs (2 by Hazuki, 1 by LisaX, & 1 by Disqualia’s Narumi, more on her another time). Other instruments were programmed by the producer, except on Narumi-penned One More Chance Is Enough, which has Shane Gaalaas on drums and Billy Sheehan (MrBig, davidLeeRoth, Mike Portnoy/bumblefoot/ritchieKotzen, etc) on bass. When Rina, who brought a very mature contemporary sound, exited the project, LisaX was set to graduate, looking to do something more youthful, poppy, fun, found Kotono, singing dancer from IronBunny (& BabyMetal “avenger” iirc), and the project was named Koiai. Pronounced “Co E ahh E”, it has multiple meanings; primarily a color (navy blue, concentrated blue, “indigo”, nearly purple/violet), but also connotations of love, maybe more meanings (I think Hazuki even called it, or something about it, a dad joke?) Here’s LisaX’s review of her career Feb 2019 age 14 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9eefdOJ0trDmok.htmlsi=6J0DGt4m5Qc0zjr9 & Q&A Apr 2020 age 15 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNZhmc2Z1deon3k.htmlsi=cJNaQQ0yz2UOGswT About to turn 19, Koiai just had their debut show (footage in that Laney ad you saw.). Before that they’d toured India (partial thanks to Guthrie Govan’s influence). LisaX, Hazuki, Kotono; with her younger brother on bass, Kanade Sato on drums (prodigy turned pro, just became full Koiai member the past few weeks, look for her other work), Dad as chaperone & stage manager. Now the bass spot is covered by Wakazaemon, pink haired lefty from East of Eden, Marty Friedman Band, and much more. My fav vids are the 4 LisaX Band ones, but there are some from her prior album Will, and some from Koiai. Definitely looking forward to more! Enjoy 🤘🎸💃😎

They just got an official drummer Kinade. No official bassist yet. Kotono is their vocalist. She was once in Ironbunny. If you like 80's style rock and metal with a Japanese flare, Ironbunny was great. Twenty-three 23 would be a great place to start.

See what they can do, they just posted a new concert video, it's amazing. KOIAI - A New Picture (Official Live Video from "1st LIVE in JAPAN" Blu-ray) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qL5mhrNmx7e-eGw.html

Lisa is a child prodigy she started on guitar at age 3 I do believe. And Hazuki's name is pronounced Haz pause ki.

Lisa is so good playing guitar but she is so shy to perform on stage..... the only she performed on stage when all female guitarist play together with Saki(Nemophila)...they played Deep Purple song...