Taku Hirano is a percussionist, record producer and recording artist who has toured playing percussion with Fleetwood Mac, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Stevie Nicks, Lionel Richie, Isaac Hayes, Lindsey Buckingham, John Mayer, A.R. Rahman, Hikaru Utada, and with Cirque du Soleil on Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour.
Taku has recorded with Dr. Dre on 2001, Fleetwood Mac, Whitney Houston, The Temptations, Hikaru Utada, Stevie Nicks, Josh Groban, Chromeo, Ziggy Marley, Emmanuel Jal, Nelly Furtado and Lionel Richie, in addition to working on major motion picture soundtracks.