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Tomiko Van 伴 都美子
Tomiko Van in Shibuya with Do As Infinity members
Background information
Born	(1979-01-09) January 9, 1979 (age 45) Yamato, Kumamoto, Japan
Genres	Anison J-pop Jazz Rock music
Occupations	Musician Record producer Singer-songwriter
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Avex Trax (1999–present)
Website	avex.jp/van/prof/index.html
Japanese name
Kanji	伴 都美子
Hiragana	ばん とみこ
Katakana	バン トミコ
Transcriptions Romanization Ban Tomiko

Tomiko Van (伴 都美子, Ban Tomiko, born January 9, 1979), is a Japanese pop singer and occasional actress. She is as a member of the band Do As Infinity (DAI), along with Ryo Owatari and Dai Nagao, that has resumed activities after their 2005 split.

Career

Do As Infinity

Beginnings as solo artist

Tomiko Van began as a solo artist while she was with Do As Infinity with the song "Again", which appeared on the charity album Song Nation, and later in 2003 with the song "Drive me nuts", which was recorded for trance DJs project Cyber X. Van also appeared in six commercials for the Japanese hair product company Lavenus.

Official solo career

2005

After Do As Infinity disbanded on September 29, 2005, Avex Trax, Van's label, announced that the singer was going solo.

2006

In 2006, Van made her debut as a solo artist with her album Farewell. Singles were not released prior to her album, released in March 2006. Her first official single as a solo artist, "Flower", was released in June of the same year, and made the weekly top ten of the Japanese charts. Two other singles followed that year, "Senkō", in September, and "Yumeji", a late November release.

2007

Van began 2007 with her first cover album titled Voice: Cover You With Love. The album was Van's only release that year. Tomiko van also acted in a movie Heat Island.

2008

In 2008, Van's third album and second cover album, Voice 2: Cover Lovers Rock, was released in March. In this album, she covered songs performed by male artists, such as Spitz and Masaharu Fukuyama. Despite her one-year hiatus from the music scene, the album charted at number 10 on the first day of release. Van's fourth solo single, "Tokyo Biyori", was released on June 18, 2008. Her second original album, Van, was released in December 2008.

On September 29, 2008, Do As Infinity officially reunited as a band, and released a four-track single on June 17, 2009.

Personal life

Van married a man four years her junior in September 2012, first publicly announcing her marriage at a Do As Infinity concert at Shibuya AX in Tokyo on September 29. As of 2016, she is the mother of two children. She divorced her husband in July 2018.

Discography

Singles

Albums

Music videos

Featured and collaborative releases

• "Drive Me Nuts" (Cyber X feat. Tomiko Van)
• "Truth'94 -Meets Tomiko Van-" (cover version of TRF's original song)
• "Again" (various artists album, Song Nation, an Avex project consisting of collaborations between many different Avex artists)
• "Music Flower" (Kohey Tsuchiya & various artists)
• "Velvet" (Kikkawa Kouji)

References

1. "Do As Infinity Stories". TV.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
2. "Tomiko Van's official profile" (in Japanese). Avex Group. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
3. "News section at Tomiko Van's official website" (in Japanese). Avex Group. June 17, 2008. Archived from the original on August 19, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
4. "Do As Infinity's Van Tomiko announces her marriage". Tokyohive. Theory Media, LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
5. "Do As Infinity's Tomiko Van Gives Birth To 2nd Child". JpopAsia. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
6. "Do As Infinity's Van Tomiko announces her pregnancy". Tokyohive. Theory Media, LLC. December 7, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
7. "Do As Infinity・伴都美子、昨年7月に離婚 故郷・熊本で暮らす現在「生き返った感じ」". Oricon. August 4, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2019.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Tomiko Van at IMDb

• 1979 births
• Avex Group artists
• Japanese women pop singers
• Japanese women rock singers
• Japanese actresses
• Living people
• Singers from Kumamoto Prefecture
• 20th-century Japanese women singers
• 20th-century Japanese singers
• 21st-century Japanese women singers
• 21st-century Japanese singers