Masahiko Sato

Biography

Masahiko Satoh (佐藤 允彦, Satō Masahiko, born 6 October 1941) is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer and arranger. Satoh was born in Tokyo on 6 October 1941. The house that his family moved into in 1944 contained a piano; Masahiko started playing it at the age of five. He began playing the piano professionally at the age of 17, "accompanying singers, magicians and strippers at a cabaret in the Ginza district". By 1959 Satoh was playing in Georgie Kawaguchi's band