Early life Rinoie was born in
Kanagawa,
Japan. His mother is a
Han Chinese in Japan, while his father is Japanese, thus he is mixed half Chinese, half Japanese.
Music career Rinoie began his music career in the late 1980s, as a member of the Japanese pop/rock band
D-Project, which also included members Masaki Suzukawa, and Tatsuya Honda. In 1988, the group released their debut album
Prototype, under the
Fitzbeat label; the album featured songs such as "Sayonara, So Long", and "Sexy Girl". The group released their second album
Tempest (1990), then released their third and final album
Pages (1993), under the
Sony label before disbanding. Rinoie is also a former member of
Romantic Mode. After spending many years as a studio musician, he became a producer under the MUV Rinoie Ltd. label. His song "Synchronized Love" appears in several installments of the
Dance Dance Revolution game series and in Commercials promoting
Takefuji Corp with dancers. He was most recently in the
J-pop group, II Mix⊿Delta, a new formation of
Two-Mix, singing alongside
Minami Takayama. ==References==