Tokyo Groove Jyoshi is a female groove band formed in 2018 in Tokyo by three Japanese session musicians - Emi Kanazashi (keyboards), Juna Serita (bass) and Yuriko Seki (drums). Their driving force has been Koichi Kaneko, their producer, who lived in NY in the '80s and '10s, where he fell in love with groove music.
TGJ's single “Hot Summer” topped the R&B/Soul charts in Turkey's iTunes Store. And the EP “Tokyo Groove” reached into the top ten in Japan's R&B/Soul iTunes chart!
In 2020 TGJ were invited to NY by Ray Angry (Christina Aguilera's "Slow Down Baby", Ja Rule's "Real Life Fantasy" and Melanie Fiona's "Priceless", played on records by Robbie Williams, Joss Stone, toured with D'Angelo) and played at The Bitter End, Shrine, Suger, The Groove, Cafe Wha?. In the last year they have been active in producing video material and on-line gigs which you can find on their YouTube channel here.