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Eli Mitsumura
Eli Mitsumura (born February 9th, 1996) is an American recording artist and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for The Sermons. Since his inception in 2001, he has released 2 albums and performed many concerts with bands within his scene

2001-2007: Musical Beginnings and The Sermons
Mitsumura started playing guitar at the age of 5 years of age, learning songs from artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Black Flag normally on vinyl. He started The Sermons at the age of 11 and they performed mostly instrumental punk rock tracks from Black Flag and Minor Threat. The band shortly then broke up after, as then Mitsumura was very mentally unstable.

2008-2010: The Maneaters and Solo Work
After the break up of The Sermons, Mitsumura went to the House of Blues in Orlando and watched The Maneaters play without a guitarist on the rookie slot of the night. He then asked co-founder and bassist of the band John Bzellmann if he could fill in the lead guitarist slot they were missing. After that they performed in low profile clubs around Orlando, Being the youngest in the band, he felt "left out" because members would not interact with him. He would purposely mess up his guitar parts, smash instruments and scream clean vocals. In early 2009 The Maneaters and Mitsumura parted ways, after that he would normally write songs and perform in parks around his area.

2011-2014: Reformation of The Sermons
In mid 2011, Mitsumura contacted former guitarist of The Sermons, Mitch Yasumura and asked if he would like to participate in band activities again, Yasumura accepted the offer and meet with him. The two of them asked former band mates to get together by Christmas. The played their first show of reformation in the summer of 2011 and toured after that. In 2012 Mitsumura suggested they should sign up to play festivals and high profile shows, at that point they were mostly covering 90s hits and J-Rock music. At that time they would mostly play anime related festivals and it would become very popular with the Japanese audience, so much that NHK would air The Sermons' first major tour on their channel in Chiba.

2015-Present Day: Major Depression,Hiatus and Return to Music
In April of 2015, Mitsumura stated in a facebook post to his followers and friends that he felt "Out of his own body and in a numb sense" and "That he has no reason to go on living". after that he would become a recluse and stay in his home. In September of the same year he released a Youtube video detailing what he was going through, "Depersonalization Disorder is the most terrifying event I have ever went through, and I would not wish it on my worst enemy". In January of 2016 he returned to music while touring with the whole band for a year. ever since then he has released 2 solo albums and plans on a Sermons album release.