Tsuno Maisa

Tsuno Maisa (津野米咲) is a Japanese guitarist and songwriter. She is the guitarist and backing vocalist, as well as the leader, for the girl band Akai Koen.

Tsuno likes idols and is a Hello! Project fan, mostly in support of ℃-ute. She began writing songs for various Hello! Project groups in 2016.

Biography
Tsuno Maisa was born on October 2, 1991 in Tokyo, Japan. Her grandfather, Tsuno Yoji, and her father, Tsuno Goji, are both songwriters, her grandmother was in Takarazuka, her mother plays the piano, her oldest brother can play the guitar, and her second older brother can play the drums.

Due to her musical roots, Tsuno grew up listening to a lot of music of different genres; in addition to pop, she listened to The Carpenters, Simon & Garfunkel, Earth, Wind & Fire, Pavement, Oda Kazumasa, Matsutoya Yumi, Mr.Children, and classical composers such as Tchaikovsky and Claude Debussy. She learned to play the electone at 3 or 4 years old, and she only started playing the guitar in her first year of high school. At one point Tsuno also played in a brass band.

In 2010, the band Akai Koen was formed by Sato Chiaki, Fujimoto Hikari, Utagawa Naho, and Tsuno, who was one year above them, as fellow members of their high school light music club. After she graduated from high school, Tsuno's parents planned to move to Osaka, but she decided to stay behind. Since then, she became the leader and is responsible for writing and producing the band's songs.

Tsuno drew attention in 2013 when she wrote the lyrics and composition for SMAP's 50th single "Joy!!".

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 * Birth Name: Tsuno Maisa (津野米咲)
 * Birth Date: October 2, 1991
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Buono!

 * So La Si Do ~Nee Nee~ (Lyrics, composition)

℃-ute

 * Yume (Lyrics, composition)

Kobushi Factory

 * TEKI (Lyrics, composition)

Morning Musume

 * Utakata Saturday Night! (Lyrics, composition)