Hiroyuki Igarashi

Hiroyuki Igarashi, born on June 1, 1969 in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, and raised in Yokohama, is a Japanese dancer and producer better known as Hiro or Exile Hiro. He sharpened his dancing while working at discos in Roppongi, came to wider notice as the runner-up in a dance contest on the television program DADA in 1989, and joined the dance groups that led to Zoo and then the Japanese Soul Brothers. In 1999 he founded the group J Soul Brothers, which took the name Exile in 2001, and in 2003 the company LDH was established. He later became chief creative officer of LDH World and then its chairman, and in 2013 he announced his retirement from performing to concentrate on producing. In 2019 he was appointed director of the cultural segment of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Flame Handover Ceremony in Athens. In this atlas he stands as an entertainment producer and executive whose group and company work reached Japanese television.