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Lyrics Born become more popular as Asia Born. He was born with the name Tom Shimura in Tokyo, Japan in 1972 and is a half-Japanese-American, half-Italian-American hip hop performer. When he was a child, he lived in Tokyo and Salt Lake City, Utah, but has lived most of his later life in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began his hip hop career at one college at UC Davis, where he was a DJ at the college station KDVS. Lyrics Born is a founding member of the seminal independent record label, called Quannum Projects. This was the first artist to release a single on the Soleside Records of San Francisco. He worked under the original moniker Asia Born for a while on "Send them" in 1993 before changing it three years later for his collaborations with labelmate Lateef. After has been featured on "The wreckoning" b/w "Latyrx" of Lateef, Lyrics put out his own "12", "Balcony beach" b/w "Burnt pride", in October 1996 before enter the studio again with Lateef and DJ Shadow as "Latyrx" for "The album" from 1997. He began working on a solo album the following year, though it spent five years in the workshop before appearing on the global hip hop market as "Quannum as later that day". The success of his debut prompted Lyrics Born to release another modified version of it, called "Same !@#$ different day", which contained new records as well as remixes of previous hits, and in 2006, after an extensive world tour, the MC published "Overnite encore - Lyrics Born live". The majority of this record was taken from two 2005 performances in Australia, but also included new studio tracks. Lyrics Born recorded his first solo LP in October 2003, and later "That day" which consisted the hit single, "Callin out". The live album "Overnite encore - Lyrics Born live" was released on 31 October 2006. It was recorded in Australia and features half of the album from Sydney and the other half from Melbourne. It presents a live set featuring his backing band, as well as three new studio tracks including the hit song, "Knock knock". The album received a 3,5 out of 4 star review in the "Rolling stone" magazine.
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