Haketa Takefumi, born in Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture., is a Japanese musician. His father is a salaryman who works for an oil company and is often transferred. He grew up in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, and grew up in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture from junior high school to university graduation. Since he was a college student, he started his musical activities at a local jazz live house. In 1981, he made his professional debut as the second keyboard player of the funk band "AFRIKA". Since 1993, he has participated in the recording of Gontiti and is in charge of composition and arrangement.

After that, while working on many drama accompaniments, he collaborated with Nao Matsushita, Kousuke Atari, Chitose Hajime, Chihiro Onitsuka, Jun Shibata, Uniform Improvement Committee, Hiromi Ota, Tomoyo Harada, Mimori Yusa, Masayuki Iizuka, Tomomi Hanahara, Mika Nakashima, and Masahiko Hashimoto. He also composes, arranges, and produces for Tainaka Sachi. The piano tone from the intro of Chihiro Onitsuka's "Moonlight" is by Hageta.

In addition, he has participated in the " image " series, which has been serialized as a healing relaxed CD, for the first time, and is a bandmaster in the concert tour "Live image" that is held every year when the CD is released.

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