He is best known for work as part of the music duo Chage and Aska.
Aska was born on February 24, 1958, in Ono, Onojō, Fukuoka.
He began a solo career in 1987, and was highly successful in the early 1990s.
[6] Initially, it was thought that his stage name was derived from the Ryo Asuka character of the Devilman manga series by Go Nagai.
Aska later denied this, explaining that his name was derived from "Asuka", the name of female radio DJ in Fukuoka on whom he had a crush in college.