Shingo Masuda

Shingo Masuda is a qanun player and composer from Japan. He sometimes plays the darbuka and the frame drum. He was born in Osaka and grew up in Nara. As a child, he started playing the piano and studying Western classical music. In 2009, he traveled to Egypt to start playing the qanun and learned it there. After that, he often traveled to Turkey, Tunisia, Greece, etc., to learn various techniques and modal music. His musical activities were mainly in Japan until 2017, when he moved to Berlin. Currently, he is playing with many international musicians and is part of many projects. In 2019, he won a prize in one of the world music contests in Berlin, the "2. Creole Contest," with one of his bands, "Japal.