Bass player Hiro Sakaba

Professional bass player for two dacades providing high-end performance live or recording sessions. I have performed for numerous wedding/club/cover bands, Gospel/Praise&Worship music ministries, and original music groups of R&B, Jazz, Pop, Folk, Authentic African (Senegalese), etc. I categorize myself as Funk/R&B/Gospel player but open to Rock, Reggae, Hip-Hop, and any other genre that’s musically interesting.

I’m comfortable reading both notations & chord charts and go by ear depending on the situation, and I have a vast repertoire (a list of my repertoire is available upon request.) I’m comfortable learning songs in a short period of time.

I have a reliable car to do gigs outside the city as well. I play ‘73 Fender Jazz bass, Mike Lull M5V 5 string, Bassalicious synth bass with Aguilar Tone Hammer 350 amp head and Aguilar 112 cab for most of small to mid-size venues.

My aim for this service is to provide quality bass performance both sonically and visually to embellish your music events.

Hiro Sakaba was born in Saitama, Japan, and came to the United States in 1997. Since he received his bachelor's Degree from Berklee College of Music in 2004, he has been working as a bandleader, formal bass player of several groups, live sound engineer, and a freelance recording session player in New York Metro area, New England area, along with other major east and west coast cities, and also in my home country, Japan. Currently working for The Sultans (link hidden) which works for the U.S. Presidents and CEOs of Forbes 500 corporations’ events. He had opportunities to work with following world-class musicians; William Newton & Angela Allen (from The Platters), Kenwood Dennard, Frank Fioravanti, Vuk Kulenovic, Tibor Pusztai, Eric Bloom (from The Lettuce), Nadia Turner, Ken Pullig, Greg Hopkins, Bob Pilkington, Shannon LeClaire, Angela Christie, Charles Haynes, Heather Schmid, Freedom (from Screaming Headless Torsos), Jun Abe, Nobuo Eguchi, etc..