Nice to meet you all from Kei.

Hello, thank you for visiting our blog!
My name is Kei. Kel and I started this blog when we decided to leave the corporate life and chase our forever-dreams. Here, let me introduce myself so that you can see who I am and what this website is about.
I was born in Japan in 1982. I am 100% pure Japanese.
When I was 19 years old, I was looking for an English teacher who was interested in Japanese language. So I put information about myself onto the website called Japanese Pen Pal. A few days later I got emails from around the world. I suddenly got more than 20 email friends. And one of them was my current wife, Kelly. We exchanged emails for years, and when I travelled to Toronto, Canada, to study English, I decided to visit her in Chicago, Illinois, USA. We hit it off there, and now we are married and live together in an hour outside Chicago.
I love cooking, studying foreign languages (English and Spanish for now), gardening, working out….. But my biggest interest is always about music. I have been composing and arranging music with acoustic guitar, and I wish to improve myself well enough to play in public and see the audience smile. I love studying, listening, and playing music because music is a language which can play a role as a bridge between people around the world. I want to play music to connect people with different cultures and nationalities. I want to play Japanese music to American people, and American songs to Japanese people, so that we can feel closer to each other and get deeper understanding.
For me, music does not come up from nothing. When I feel sad, I hear a sad melody. When I smell rain, I hear raindrops. Music is coming from everything that I experience.
So in this blog, I want to talk about anything I would like to do to make one step closer to my goal, becoming a “bridge” as a musician. Hopefully, it branches many topics and we can share opinions, ideas, and thoughts with you!
Thank you.