Background
Kuwabara was born on September 21, 1991, the youngest of three girls.
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Kuwabara graduated from the Music Department at Senzoku Gakuen High School as a jazz piano major in 2010. She studied piano under Yuki Arimasa, Yoko Yamashita, and Kazune Zaima.
Career
She produces music in collaboration with bassist Yusuke Morita in a band called the ai kuwabara trio project Her first album, from here to there debuted nationally in Japan via EWE Records in November 2012, and their second album THE SIXTH SENSE, was released in April 2013. The trio performed in the Sapporo City Jazz Festival 2013 in July and the 12th Tokyo Jazz Festival in September.
She has performed at the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund Charity Concert and International Junior Original Concert.
She was featured in AERA magazine as a “Genius Electone Girl.” In the middle of junior high school, she switched to playing the piano. The ai kuwabara trio project"s jazz genre is notably hard to pin down.
Sean Smith, writer for the Japan Times and jazz blogger, writes that her second album blends "contemporary jazz with elements of rock and fusion sounds," though he later states that some tracks are clearly modern or contemporary jazz, "with some almost prog-rock like synths in place." Kuwabara herself states that, "I don"t feel that I"m consciously playing jazz as such. Without wanting to be disrespectful to the tradition of the genre, that"s not really what I"m aiming for, but that"s just how my music gets categorized.".
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Quotations: "A few times I"ve been asked whether I"ve used my sixth sense to create this music,".
