Listeners who have heard this Japanese avant-garde vocalist in action would not be surprised to find out his background was in theater, beginning in 1973 with the Tokyo Kid Brothers group. In the next few years, his stage activity included a tour with the musical entitled The City in both New York and London, as well as work in the latter city with the local theater group Lumiere & Son, with whom he appeared in the play Tip Top Condition, a script that required actors to be in just that. By the middle of the '80s, he had formed his own theater group, bravely naming it Ulysses ...