TOKYO — Singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada, 27, announced on her official blog at 8 p.m. last Monday that she will suspend her musical activities for an indefinite period starting next year. Within the next 24 hours, access to her blog surpassed 1 million views.
Arashi is a Japanese boy band formed under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates, which announced the formation of the group on September 15, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
After releasing one studio album, one greatest hits album and six singles under the Pony Canyon record label, the group moved to the Johnny’s subsidiary label J Storm in 2001, which was initially set up for their succeeding releases. In 2008, nine years after their debut, their singles “Truth/Kaze no Mukō e” and “One Love” took the top two placings on the annual Oricon sales ranking, attesting to the group’s longevity in the Japanese music scene in spite of their idol group image.
Ringo Shiina , born Yumiko Shiina, is a Japanese singer-songwriter born on November 25, 1978. She works both as a solo musician and singer as well as a member of the band Tokyo Jihen.
On the Nekoyanagi Line website, she described herself as “Shinjuku-kei Jisaku-Jien-ya (新宿系自作自演屋, a person who performs in her own Shinjuku-style play?)”. She currently promotes herself as singer of light music and mood-songs, She was ranked number 36 in a list of Japan’s top 100 musicians provided by HMV in 2003.
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Tokyo Jihen was formed as Shiina Ringo’s backing band at first. Shiina came to think that she wanted to work with a band while working on her last solo album, Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana. She began looking for members of her backing band to support her solo tour “Sugoroku Ecstasy” in the Autumn of 2003. The tour band was introduced as Tokyo Jihen during the tour for the first time, featuring guitarist Hirama, pianist HZM, drummer Hata, and familiar bassist Kameda. The musicians she selected became the core of what would become Tokyo Jihen.
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Chinen Yuri is a Japanese actor, talent and singer as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture and lives in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Also known as “the little giant”. He has expressed great respect for Arashi member Ohno Satoshi.
Keito Okamoto is a Japanese singer and member of the J-pop group Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Osaka to Kenichi Okamoto, a former member of the rockband & Johnny’s group Otokogumi and model Nishi Katsue. He was living in England for some time until returning to the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. He is the only member of Hey! Say! JUMP who speaks fluent English. For many years he went to school in England, Homefield school,Brandeston Hall and Framlingham College.
Kei Inoo is a Japanese singer as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Saitama and lives in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. He plays the piano in Hey! Say! JUMP’s song Star Time when performed live.
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