Toru Yamashita

Toru Yamashita, known mononymously as Toru, is a Japanese musician and the guitarist and leader of the band ONE OK ROCK. With two other men, Kohei and Takuya, Toru and Ryota formed a hip-hop dance group called Heads when they were fifth and sixth-graders. They participated in dance competitions in the late 1990s, between the years 1995 to 1999. Heads debuted with a single entitled "screeeem!" in July 2000 and followed with "Gooood or Bad!" in November, produced for Amuse, Inc. Heads disbanded in 2002, and in 2003 they took a break to improve their abilities. They merged into a new group with seven other members and were called GROUND 0. In 2005, Toru took a main role in the TV series…