Verona Arena
Hotei contributed guitar to Zucchero Fornaciari's song "Ti voglio sposare" for the Italian singer's "Black Cat" album, which was released in April 2016, beginning a series of collaborations between the two artists which included Zucchero's first ever performances in Tokyo in May 2016, accompanied by Hotei, at an event organized by the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, and Hotei's first ever live appearance in Italy, at Zucchero's record-breaking Verona Arena run of dates, in September.