Ikkokudou talks about becoming a ventriloquist in guest lecture at Ginoza Junior High School, “When your dreams change, it is progress”

Ikkokudou talks about becoming a ventriloquist in guest lecture at Ginoza Junior High School, “When your dreams change, it is progress”

Ventriloquist Ikkokudou talking about becoming a ventriloquist – November 13, Ginoza Junior High School


November 21, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo

Ginoza – Ventriloquist and Okinawa Native Ikkokudou gave a guest lecture at Ginoza Junior High School November 13. He also performed some ventriloquy, and talked about how he became a ventriloquist, and how important it was to have a goal to work towards.

Ikkokudou said that his first time seeing a ventriloquist was on TV when he was a junior high school student, while watching a female police officer talk about traffic safety using ventriloquy. He only really started doing it in earnest when he was 28. He told the students that his dream transitioned through being a professional baseball player and actor, stressing, “When your dreams change, it is not a setback, it is progress. What you did up until that point was certainly not a waste.”

He said that in junior high school he had a gloomy personality, but that once he got to high school he began to act more cheerful.

When he had his eyes set on becoming an actor, he would imitate the teachers, and was told, “He was good at capturing people’s characteristics. He said, “When you have a dream, it is important to think about it yourself and move forward.”

The speech was given to 170 first and second-year students. Second-year student Yuki Zukeyama gave her impression of hearing Ikkokudou’s story of becoming a ventriloquist, saying, “All of the things he had to study to figure out how to make different sounds and even sing without moving his mouth is impressive.”
(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)

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