Every Little Thing

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Every Little Thing (エヴリ・リトル・シング, Evuri Ritoru Shingu), is a J-pop and soft rock duo from Japan who debuted in August 1996 with the release of their first single called "Feel My Heart". Their name is usually written in English, and only rarely in katakana or rōmaji.

Also known as ELT by their Japanese fans. Every Little Thing was originally a trio, but after 2000 became a duo with Kaori Mochida as the lead vocal singer and Ichiro Ito as the guitarist. Mitsuru Igarashi, ex-member of the band, left ELT following the release of their 3rd original album "eternity", to produce other artists like dream and the now disbanded day after tomorrow, which was criticized for sounding too much like the early Every Little Thing.

In Asia Every Little Thing is known as 小事樂團.

Members
* Kaori Mochida (持田 香織, Mochida Kaori?) (Born March 24, 1978) - vocals, song writing
* Ichiro Ito (伊藤 一朗, Itō Ichirō?) (Born November 10, 1967) - guitarist, composer, arranger
* Mitsuru Igarashi (五十嵐 充, Igarashi Mitsuru?) (Born May 17, 1969) - keyboardist, producer (Left the band in 2000)

Biography
The group was created by Mitsuru Igarashi in 1996. Igarashi was a producer at the label Avex Trax at that time and he was looking for a girl for a new duo with him as the keyboardist. He listened to a demo tape from Kaori Mochida, who at that time was a young girl trying to get a music contract after she went solo from her group called The Kuro Buta All-Stars (a group with many girls similar to Morning Musume). She was still in school at that point of time.

Igarashi was speechless after listening to Kaori, impressed by her strong and sweet voice at the same time. He asked her to be part of a new band, and she accepted. Igarashi had a guitarist friend, Ichiro Ito, and Igarashi asked him to help in the first single of the duo called "Feel My Heart", written, composed, produced and arranged by Igarashi himself, and Ito agreed to help his friend; after "Feel My Heart" did so well at the charts and the group was gaining popularity, Itō finally decided to stay permanently in the group with Mochida and Igarashi.

Their first studio album, called "everlasting" was a big success, selling nearly two million copies in Japan, and marking ELT as a popular group that was about to stay for a long time in the public eye. The band reached #1 at the Oricon charts for the first time with their fourth single, "For The Moment".