Depapepe

Depapepe is the transliteration of the Japanese name (デﾊﾟﾍﾟﾍﾟ) for the acoustic guitar musical duo of Takuya Miura(born April 5th, 1983) and Yoshinari Takuoka (born on July 15th, 1977) . The duo formed in 2002.

They released three indies before their major debut, which collectively reached sales figures of about 100,000.

They made their major debut in 2005 with their album “Let’s Go!!!”, and ranked within the top 10 of Oricon’s Instrumental Artist Debut Chart.

The band’s name was cobbled together by combining the Japanese word for ‘overbite’, ‘deppa’, because of Miura’s overbite, and the name of Tokuoka’s previous band ‘DERUPEPE’.

Contrary to a popular rumor circulating among their fans, the two guitarists are not brothers. They are signed onto Sony Music Japan.

Discography

• 「Acoustic Friends」 - February 5, 2004
• 「Passion Of Gradation」 - December 2, 2004
• 「Let's Go!!!」 - released May 18, 2005
• 「Hi！Mode！！」 - released October 19, 2005
• 「Ciao! Bravo!!」 - released April 19, 2006
• 「BEGINNING OF THE ROAD ～collection of early songs～」 - released May 1, 2007
• 「DEPACLA ～depapepe plays the classics～」 - released November 28, 2007
• 「HOP! SKIP! JUMP!」 - released April 2, 2008

Singles

• Sky! Sky! Sky! - July 15, 2004
• Summer Parade - July 20, 2005
• Spur - Winter Version 05 / Swingin Happy X Mas - November 30, 2005
• Lahaina - March 15, 2006
• Night & Day - October 11, 2006
• Sakura Kaze - February 21, 2007