My Little Lover is a group consisting of two men and a woman.
The vocalist is AKKO. Her original name is Akiko Akamatsu. When she was five years old, she started to play the piano. When she was eighteen years old, she entered Kunitachi Ongaku University.
Kenji Fujii is the guitarist of the group. When he was junior high school student, he started to play the guitar. After he produced three records, he helped other artists, Yoshito Teraoka and his friends and Misato Watanabe. Then, he came to join My Little Lover as the guitarist.
In Akko's senior year (1995) she made friends with Takeshi Kobayashi who had been a music producer for over 10 years. He wrote and arranged many songs. Moreover he helped many artists to release records, and he made the film, "es" -- the theme of es.
They debuted by releasing the record "Man and Woman". This song become famous in the Kinki area at first, and it was known by many listeners after a while. When they debuted with their first song, there had been only two members, AKKO and Kenji Fujii. After several months, Takeshi Kobayashi joined them.
They released first album "evergreen". It sold very well. Then AKKO and Takeshi Kobayashi got married and AKKO bore their baby.
They released only singles for about two years. Then they released a second album, "Presents".
Source: Kyoto Sangyo University (Kyôto Sangyo Daigaku)
