JAM Project are a Japanese Anison band founded on July 19, 2000 by anison singer Ichirou Mizuki. The band is composed of many vocal artists well known in the anime music industry. Aside from the many anime, tokusatsu, and video gametheme songsthe band has performed together, each member is famous for his or her own solo performances of Japanese theme songs. JAM Project is especially well known for their contributions of theme music for Garo, and One Punch Man. Since 2008, The group has performed internationally with regularity, in cities such as Baltimore, Washington, Rotterdam, Abu Dhabi and Paris, typically in conjunction with anime conventions. In the summer of 2012, they teamed up with Animetal USA for a limited national concert tour called the Japan-America Anison Summit. From 2011 to 2014, Japanese composer and conductor Takayuki Hattori served as orchestral arranger on several albums and tours. In 2015, JAM Project celebrated its 15th anniversary with a series of concerts that contained 39 songs in its setlist chosen from all their previous albums, the most songs in any of their concerts to date. They also released a CD based on a new ultra-high quality standard containing re-arranged and re-recorded hits voted on by fans. In 2020, the group celebrated its 20th anniversary with the release of the albumThe Age of Dragon Knights. JAM Project worked with prominent peers, including Yuki Kajiura, GRANRODEO, ALI PROJECT, angela and members of FLOW. The group also released JAM Project 20th Anniversary Complete BOX, which includes all of the group's albums, a collection of its foreign-language recordings, Blu-rays of a concert and other footage, and a 300-page booklet. The group's producer is Shunji Inoue, the president and CEO of Lantis. in San Francisco, California
Ricardo Cruz – additional vocalist from Brazil; heard on the songs "Neppu! Shippu! Cybaster", "Gong", "Stormbringer", "Rescue Fire", "The Guardian", "Transformers Evo.", "Sempre Sonhando", "Waga Na wa Garo", "Mirai e no Chikai", "Mirai e no Daikoukai ~Great voyage~", "BUDDY IN SOUL", "Kessen the Final Round", "Treasure in the sky", "Tread on the Tiger's Tail", "Seijaku no Apostle", "Homeward Bound", and "Giant Swing"
Former members
Eizo Sakamoto – founding member; stopped activity with the band in March 2003 prior to Fukuyama and Okui's joining, referring to it as "Graduation". He returned to perform in the band's 10th anniversary reunion concert in 2010.
Rica Matsumoto – founding member; announced on April 7, 2008, that she was taking time off from the band to focus on her solo work, since becoming an indefinite hiatus. She returned briefly in 2010 to help write the 10th anniversary version of "KI・ZU・NA" on the album MAXIMIZER ~Decade of Evolution~.
Ichirou Mizuki – founding member; formally reduced his status to "part-time member" in August 2002, following the band's second live concert. He returned to sing in the single "Stormbringer" in 2006. He also returned to perform in the band's 10th anniversary reunion concert in 2010.
