fra-foa formed in Sendai - a big city about 300km to the North from Tokyo - in April 1998. After playing for 2 years without contract they finally signed a recording deal with indie label "Toy's Factory" in 2000. Soon they were releasing their first single titled "tsuki to sabaku" in May 2000 and their first album "chuu no fuchi" in February 2001 (discography).

At the beginning of the year 2003, having released their second album "13 leaves" and after vocalist Chisako MIKAMI announced her marriage and pregnancy in December 2002, fra-foa's contract with Toy's Factory ends. In May of the same year - still without new contract - Chisako gives birth to a baby daughter.

The Group name "fra-foa" does not have a significant meaning. The vocalist Chisako MIKAMI invented this name by the pronunciation of this word which represented a kind of floating feeling or image. The characteristics of fra-foa's music is energetic vocals like a flashing blue light out of the roaring sound of distorted guitars and drums. Live performances are very essential to fra-foa. Audience perceive their tremendous energy release as well as catharsis from their performance.

(monochromatic pictures taken from fra-foa's official site - www.fra-foa.net)