is a Japanese recording artist, producer, composer for Film and TV, and best known as a member of the hip-hop rock band THE BEATMOSS. He currently pursues a solo career that is called, âÂÂColorful Mannings.â His sound is influenced by 80's New Wave/Techno and also 90's alternative rock /grunge music.
KOSEN (Colorful Mannings) was born and raised in Tokyo. In 2003, he had moved to San Diego in the U.S to study making film. After he graduated from college in U.S, he made his debut as a member of the Japanese rock band Peaky SALT. House Foods Corporation featured songs of the band in their TV commercial. The band also played in a lot of famous Japanese TV shows. KOSEN scored three singles and two albums in two years until the band broke up.
<br />Following the disbandment of Peaky SALT in 2010, KOSEN started scoring hip-hop/rock songs with Finnish-Japanese rapper/vocal ILMARI, who is best known as a member of RIP SLYME, and they formed a band THE BEATMOSS with bassist YAS and drummer SOHNOSUKE (also known as a member of jazz quartet âÂÂQuasimodeâÂÂ). The band's second single âÂÂSUPERSTARâ was chosen as a campaign song for world-famous brand âÂÂadidas originalsâ -Unite All Originals -Rashisa wo Butsukero-.
<br />Besides recording with THE BEATMOSS, he currently pursues a solo career that is called, âÂÂColorful Mannings.â He has already scored as âÂÂColorful Manningsâ for two feature films (âÂÂKoikarassaâÂÂ(2013), âÂÂHappy LandingâÂÂ(2014)) and serial drama (âÂÂMOSO KanojoâÂÂ(2015)).