About Me
Naoya Rick Sakurai (NRS) is a Japanese-American music producer based in the United States. His work has been done also in Asia such as Japan, Hong-Kong, and Korea. He's also a Performer, Composer, Arranger, Engineer, Professional Artist Manager, and Musical Director as well. He have done his work in wide variety genre or music such as Hip-Hop/R&B, Pop, Rock, Smooth Jazz, Jazz, Latin, World, Acoustic, Classical, Fusion, Comedy, Film Score and many others.Since 2007, NRS produced many artists and developed into professional high quality at his recording studio, Crayon Studio. Crayon Studio is a recording studio focuses mainly in Boston area, however also done work from out of state or even out of the country by using the internet. Some of his work includes producing a film sound track. NRS produced the sound track from the film "Nissei Dialect" by Cyphers Film.As a performer he toured with a Jazz-Fusion band JAZZION, and Hip-Hop/R&B band Xtacy Xport when he was still a student at Berklee College of Music. He have performed at the Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox Stadium as the closing act for the C2C event by Partnership Inc.While studying at Berklee majored in Contemporary Writing and Production, he was also an award recipient of CWP Award 2008. He studied his production technique from his favorite teacher at Berklee, Jetro da-Silva (Musical Director of Whitney Houston). In March 2009, NRS co-produced/composed the track "Between the Sheets" with John Jr. Robinson, drummer of Chaka Kahn, Eric Clapton and Many other Artists. In May 2009, NRS performed at Berklee College of Music Commencement Concert 2009 and performed with Grammy-wining Singer/Song Writer Smokey Robinson from Motown, Gramy-wining Singer Linda Ronstadt, International Artist Juan Luis Guerra from Dominican Republic, and shared a stage with Producer George Massenburg.His work has been released from Rookie Star Label (Victor Entertainment) and available at iTunes, Myspace Music, any many others.
