Armando Yamahira stage name “Armando” which is the middle name of the Argentinean soccer player Maradona. According to an anecdote during the 1986 Soccer World Cup match against England came with suspicion of using the hand on the ball, but he had stated "the hand of God touched it", so Armando himself wanted a "hand of God" that produces music. Born and raised in Kitagami near Hachiro Lake he grew up fishing and collecting shells as well as climbing and playing in the forest. Growing up he studied at one of the best schools in the prefecture, longed for Italian film director Fellini, and went to Nihon University College of Art. He joined a movie company and was in charge of video editing, but retired, saying, "How many years will it take to do what I want to do. If I do not do this now, I will only be buried in this organization”. In 1988, when he was 28, he left Tokyo in a bubble economy and left for his hometown. He gave up on the movie business but couldn't stop expressing. He thought, "Only music can be expressed alone”, and decided to focus on his favorite Folklore. Folklore is a Mongoloid music that has moved from Asia to Alaska to South America, so it's easy for Japanese people to feel nostalgic and close to these melodies. The genre was unknown at that time, and no music was found. With a small stringed instrument such as the Charango, he listened to the sound from a record with his ears and began to self teach.