Chouchou is a Japanese music duo which formed in July 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. They consider their formation to have taken place in the online virtual world Second Life as they "explore the possibilities of music in virtual environments." The duo consists of vocalist/art director juliet Heberle and pianist/composer arabesque Choche. arabesque (real name: Michal Horák) is the producer of Chouchou's music and was born in 1979 in Tokyo to a Czech father (Jan Horák) and a Japanese mother.