Isaku Kageyama (born December 12, 1981, in San Francisco, United States) is an American musician, composer, producer, and educator, specialized in taiko drums.
He is a member of Tokyo-based taiko ensemble called Amanojaku and is a graduate of Berklee College of Music.
[1] He is famous for his fusion of traditional Japanese music with jazz, rock and club music, whereby he has collaborated with many jazz artists such as Eric Gravatt, Terumasa Hino, Toshinori Kondo, and Kazutoki Umezu, as well as a wide range of ethnic musicians.
In 1989, Isaku joined Amanojaku, where he continued to study taiko skills with Yoichi Watanabe for the next 20 years.
[6] In 2011, Isaku entered Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he currently studies percussion and contemporary writing and production.