is an Okinawan band from Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 consisting of three members. When they were aged 19, they released their first album. They have released five studio recordings, one single, and one live concert DVD. In 2001, despite low commercial attention, they sold over two-million records from the album Message. Several years afterwards they released more albums with just as much success.

Although Mongol800 does not advertise at all, they have released two videos that were a big surprise to their fan base.

1. Bonnou No Buruusu: Showing a live studio recording session.
2. Asatoya Yuntaku: A traditional Okinawan folk song they covered showing a live performance outside the fencelines of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.

Mongol800's music encompasses daily life, with many love songs that are heart hitting such as Ryukyu Aika, Sayonara, and the most popular song amongst all their fans; Chisana Koi No Uta. In English, it means Small Love Song.

Mongol800 also did a theme song for the anime Stitch!

Stitch!

is the anime adaptation of the animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the subsequent successor for the Lilo & Stitch series by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It takes place after the film and debuted in Japan on October 2008. The show features a Japanese girl named Yuna in place of Lilo, and is...

, South Wind and Sun, released for the second season of the anime's run.

Personnel

Kiyosaku Uezu - bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, vocals

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

Takashi Gima - guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

Satoshi Takazato - drums

Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

Albums

#	Information	Copies sold
1st	Go on As You Are Released: August 8, 2000	1,000,000
2nd	Message Message (Mongol800 album) - Track listing :# Anata ni # Song for You# Chiisana Koi no Uta # Melody# Tsuki Akari no Shita de # For Life... Released: September 16, 2001	2,761,910
3rd	百々: Momo Released: March 18, 2004
4th	Daniel Released: August 8, 2006
5th	Etc. Work Released: July 8, 2008
6th	Eight-hundreds Released: July 8, 2009	46,128

Singles

#	Information	Copies sold
1st	ヨロコビノウタ Released: December 6, 2003
2nd	Special Thanks!! Released: December 3, 2008

Compilations

• 飛薬(Flying Drug): 沖縄中毒 Vol.2 (2001)
• 沖縄中毒/The Pocket Full of Rumble Okinawan Addict!! (2000)
• Japanese Homegrown Vol.4-Skacore Collection (2000)

External links

• Official site Japanese
• Official Tour Schedule Japanese
• High Wave Records Japanese
• Oricon Billboard Japanese
• Barks Biography Page Japanese
• LastFM Bio Page English
• Japan Wikipedia Japanese
• Lyrics in romaji and kanji English
• Interview at www.keikaku.net: http://www.keikaku.net/features/65 English