Kobayashi Kaori

Place: Tokyo

Born: 1981

Biography:

Kaori Kobayashi is a Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist. She was born on October 20, 1981, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Her father was a photographer and her mother was a piano teacher. Beginning at a very young age, Kobayashi learned to play the piano. When she was 13 years old, she joined a brass band and started playing the flute. Four years later, she stopped playing in the band and began playing the saxophone. After that, she turned to jazz. She entered the Senzoku College of Music after four years and graduated. She got a contract with Victor Entertainment and her first album, Solar, appeared.