Kentaro (who is an original member of Gozzolop) was born in February 13th, 1976. Impacted by Led Zeppelin and Van Halen, he started playing guitar when he was fourteen years old. As he becomes a high school student, he made a band with his friends. The band mainly played Heavy Metal and Hard Rock musics. As time went on, he had range of music preferenace wider and used to play various genre of music including British rock and pop.
In 2001, just a week before 9/11 incident, he comes to the U.S. Then, joins Ifwhen, which is a NJ-based-shoegaze-music band, as a bassist. Influenced by one of Ifwhen member, Kentato was getting interested in Techno music. In 2003, Ifwhen released its sconed album, "We Will Gently Detroy You," and has been playing around at live houses in NYC. At the same time, Kentaro launches solo project naming himself Gozzolop. Gozzolop started recording spring 2005, and releases its 1st album in October 2006.
