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RINA

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RINA was born in Japan and is now based in New York City, USA.

RINA placed second in the Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition and also won the Nu Jazz Agency’s Chico & Lupe O’Farrill Award for Best Original Composition (2018). She was nominated as "Jazz Artist Of The Year" by Boston Music Awards amongst Grammy award winner Terri Lyne Carrington and Grammy-award nominee Tia Fuller (2018) .

RINA has performed the lead keyboard position during a three-day residency with the nationally broadcasted American TV show "Late Show With Stephen Colbert" produced by Spartina Productions and CBS Television Studio in 2018. The band played for former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama.

RINA has appeared in world-renowned jazz events, including, the Bern Jazz Festival in Bern, Switzerland, San Jose jazz festival in California, USA, Nancy Jazz Pulsations in Nancy, France and Japanese New York jazz festivals in New York, USA. She also performed at internationally famous venues such as Blue Note Tokyo, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Blues Alley, SMOKE jazz club, Smalls and more.

In 2019, RINA signed a worldwide exclusive contract with Yamaha Music Entertainment Holding Inc, and later became a Yamaha Artist, joining an exquisite circle of renowned artists such as Chick Corea, Monty Alexander and Eddie Palmieri.

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