A peace song, Chikyu Kyodai (meaning Earth Family in Japanese) was born in 2006. We want this song to reach as many people as possible.

From song to song, from person to person.

To grow the circle of peace through music… that is the concept of Chikyu Kyodai project.

 

At the core of this Chikyu Kyodai project is the Chikyu Kyodai song, and its story of creation goes back to December, 2005.

A singer-songwriter, Kyogo Kawaguchi met a girl in Smokey Mountain, Philippines, during his TV coverage visit. She was there, amongst tens of thousands of poor people, collecting pieces of metal from several hectares of piled up garbage.

When Kawaguchi asked her “What’s your future dream?”, she immediately responded, “I’ll become a singer” with shining eyes. He was shocked by how her eyes were shining for a bright future living in this environment of poverty and prejudice, and as he returned to Tokyo, he wrote a song. This was Chikyu Kyodai.

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Chikyu Kyodai was selected as a theme song for ASIAN BEAT MUSIC A LIVE, a music festival held in Osaka, Japan. The artists from China, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong who joined this event sympathized to the song’s message of peace, and after the festival, they began to cover Chikyu Kyodai in their native languages. Kawaguchi wanted to spread the message of peace through this song, so he decided to release his copyright.

 

After the event in October 2006, many people who sympathized to Kawaguchi and his song gathered, and the Chiku Kyodai project was launched in January, 2007.

 

The goal of this project was to “spread the message of peace through music,” and to achieve this, the project has gathered more supporting artists, and held many music events inside and outside of Japan. Still today, various artists from around the world are covering Chikyu Kyodai.