Wikipedia
Chasen may refer to:
- Chasen (surname)
- Chasen (band), Christian rock band from Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- ChaSen, morphological parser for the Japanese language
- Chasen's, restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, USA
- Chasen's mountain pit viper ( Ovophis chaseni), venomous snake found in Borneo
- Chasen, a bamboo whisk used in the Japanese tea ceremony.
- Chasen Shreve, American baseball player
Chasen was a Christian rock band from Greenville, South Carolina. The band is composed of Chase Callahan ( lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Evan Silver (guitar), Aaron Lord ( drums) and bassist Doug Price. Their first album was the independent release Another Way of Life. In 2006 they were signed to OMG Records and recorded a promotional EP for Coca Cola Dasani. The first song from the album, "Crazy Beautiful", charted in the Top 10 on the R&R magazine chart as of January 2008 and it was the 22nd most-played song of 2008 on U.S. Contemporary Christian music radio stations according to R&R magazine's Christian CHR chart. Their debut full-length studio album, Shine Through the Stars, was released on April 15, 2008 on OMG Records. The song "Drown" was also released as a radio single in 2008.
Their second album That Was Then, This Is Now was released on March 9, 2010 on INO Records.
Chasen is a Jewish surname. It derives from Hebrew chazan (חזן, "cantor"). Alternate spellings are Hazan and Chazan. Notable people with the surname include:
- Frederick Nutter Chasen (1896–1942), English zoologist
- Heather Chasen (born 1927), English actress
- Ronni Chasen (1946–2010), American film publicist
- Michael Chasen, American businessman and entrepreneur, CEO of SocialRadar, and Co-Founder of Blackboard Inc.