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Mei Semones
Japanese-American jazz and pop guitarist and singer Mei Semones was born in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. She began playing piano at the age of four, before discovering
electric guitar at eleven. After graduating from Boston's Berklee College of
Music with a degree in jazz guitar, she met her accompanists Noah Long (viola)
and Claudius Agrippa (cello). Now based in Brooklyn, New York, the singer and
guitarist sings in Japanese and English, recording the Tsukino and Sukkikirai
EPs in 2022, followed by Kabutomushi in 2024, which reveal the influences of
bossa nova, jazz fusion and alternati...
