Earlier this week, Shingo “Shing02” Annen should have been performing at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall with his band, the Chee-Hoos. For the past seven years, he has led “A Tribute to ...

There's a Japanese-American underground rap scene. A new song in the niche market has been released on iTunes. "Luv(sic) part 4" is by Japanese-born, Calif.-based Shingo Annen. He's also known as ...

Shingo Annen, known professionally as Shing02, is a seasoned Japanese hip-hop artist and producer with over two decades in the music scene. His unique sound is a reflection of his global upbringing, ...

Born in Tokyo, raised in Tanzania and England, Shing02 came up in the independent SF Bay Area scene in the early '90s. Over the course of his independent career starting in 1995, he has collaborated ...

The infamous Japanese ‘dancing ban‘ continues to make headlines, with clubs in major cities periodically getting shut down by the police for violating the fueiho or Law on Control and Improvement of ...

One evening, I walked into Fort St George—a bar that's only a few-minutes walk from the International District Link station and serves Japanese “comfort food”—and heard a hiphop track whose beauty ...

Before Shing02 connected with Nujabes, he was a Japanese émigré involved in the Bay Area indie rap scene. He remembers discovering hip-hop as a self-described “art kid” when his family moved to Menlo ...

OMA is a four-piece band that blends rock and pop elements with electronic textures and atmospheres. Born in Tokyo, raised in Tanzania and England, Shing02 came up in the independent SF Bay Area scene ...