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Irori Maeda
is a Japanese pop singer and former member of the Japanese idol group AKBN0 (later known as N Zero). She is a former Hello Pro Egg member. She joined Hello! Project in 2006 as a member of Hello! Pro Egg. In 2011, she left Hello Project for AKBN0. She left AKBN0 in 2012. Biography Maeda was added to Hello! Pro Egg in 2006 by Tsunku and made her first appearance at a Cute Cuteness is a type of attractiveness commonly associated with youth and appearance, as well as a scientific concept and analytical model in ethology, first introduced by Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz. Lorenz proposed the concept of baby sc ... concert where she was introduced to the fans. Maeda left Hello! Pro Egg and Hello! Project in order to audition for AKBN0. She passed the auditions, alongside Riyon Oosumi, and joined as a fifth generation member, and now goes by the stage name Maeda Clover Irori. She left AKBN0 in spring 2012. References External links AKBN profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Maeda, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Pop Music
J-pop (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s in music, 1960s pop music, pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music"), a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene. Japanese rock bands such as Happy End (band), Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-pop was further defined by New wave music, new wave and Crossover music, crossover Jazz fusion, fusion acts of the late 1970s, such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Southern All Stars. () Popular styles of Japanese pop music include city pop and technopop during the 1970s1980s, and Eurobeat#J-Euro, J-Euro (such as Namie Amuro) and Shibuya-kei during the 1990s and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Idol
An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese popular culture, Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills such as acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by Talent agent, talent agencies, while maintaining a parasocial relationship with a financially loyal consumer fan base. Japan's idol industry first emerged in the 1960s and became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s due to television. During the 1980s, regarded as the "Golden Age of Idols", idols drew in commercial interest and began appearing in commercials and television dramas. As more niche markets began to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it led to a significant growth in the industry known as the "Idol Warring Period." Today, over 10,000 teenage girls in Japan are idols, with over 3,000 groups active. Japan's idol industry has been used as a model for other pop idol in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N Zero
is a Japanese idol girl group. Their single "Dakara Don't say it!" reached the 4th place on the Weekly Oricon Singles Chart The Oricon Singles Chart is the Japanese music industry-standard Single (music), singles popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Chart rankings are based on physical singles' sales. Until 2017, Oricon did not track down .... Discography Albums Singles Timeline ImageSize = width:1000 height:625 PlotArea = width:805 height:600 left:75 bottom:20 Alignbars = justify DateFormat = mm/dd/yyyy Period = from:01/05/2010 till:05/18/2024 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy Colors = id:1g value:rgb(1,0,0) legend:1st_Generation id:2g value:rgb(1,0.5,0) legend:2nd_Generation id:3g value:rgb(1,1,0) legend:3rd_Generation id:4g value:rgb(0,1,0) legend:4th_Generation id:5g value:rgb(0,1,1) legend:5th_Generation id:6g value:rgb(0,0,1) legend:6th_Generati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello! Pro Egg
(formerly known as until January 2012) is a pre-debut training group established by Japanese entertainment agency Up-Front Group within Hello! Project is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but ... in 2004. Members Hello Pro Kenshusei Hokkaido members * none Former members Debuted members Past members Timeline Discography Albums DVD singles References External links * *List of Hello Pro Kenshusei members* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hello Pro Kenshusei Hello! Project Musical groups established in 2004 2004 establishments in Japan Japanese pop music groups Japanese girl groups Japanese idol groups Hello! Project groups Musical groups from Tokyo Child musical groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsunku
, known professionally as , is a Japanese singer, record producer, and songwriter. He was the lead singer of the rock band Sharam Q. As a songwriter, Tsunku is the primary producer for Morning Musume and other Hello! Project acts, such as Coconuts Musume, Berryz Kobo, Cute, V-u-den, Aya Matsuura, and Maki Goto. He has also produced music for artists such as EE Jump and Sonim. Aside from musical acts, Tsunku has also produced soundtracks for anime and video game series such as '' Rhythm Heaven'' and '' ClassicaLoid''. The total sales of the singles he has written exceed 37.9 million copies, making him the fifth best-selling lyricist in Japan. History Tsunku later worked with Nintendo and J.P.ROOM to create the music video game, '' Rhythm Tengoku''. It was released for the Game Boy Advance exclusively in Japan on August 3, 2006, and later as an arcade machine on September 20, 2007. He also worked on ''Rhythm Tengoku Gold'' (Released in the US as '' Rhythm Heaven'' and in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cute (Japanese Idol Group)
, was a Japanese girl group associated with Hello! Project and produced by Tsunku. Cute consisted of Maimi Yajima, Saki Nakajima (singer), Saki Nakajima, Airi Suzuki, Chisato Okai, and Mai Hagiwara, who were all members of Hello! Project Kids prior to the group's formation. The original member line-up also consisted of fellow Hello! Project Kids members Megumi Murakami and Erika Umeda, as well as Kanna Arihara (a member of Hello Pro Kenshusei, Hello Pro Egg, Hello! Project's trainee group), prior to their departure. After releasing a string of independent hits, Cute made its major label, major debut in 2007 with "Sakura Chirari" and that year won the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist. In 2008, the group was nominated for the main Japan Record Award, the Grand Prix, its song being named one of the year's best songs. All of the group's major label, major-label single (music), singles debuted in the top 10 of the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. History 2002–2004: Formation an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Births
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Japanese Women Pop Singers
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello! Project Members
Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is first attested in writing from 1826. Early uses ''Hello'', with that spelling, was used in publications in the U.S. as early as the 18 October 1826 edition of the '' Norwich Courier'' of Norwich, Connecticut. Another early use was an 1833 American book called ''The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee'', which was reprinted that same year in '' The London Literary Gazette''. The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s. Etymology According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', ''hello'' is an alteration of ''hallo'', ''hollo'', which came from Old High German "''halâ'', ''holâ'', emphatic imperative of ''halôn'', ''holôn'' to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman". It also connects the development of ''hello'' to the influence of an earlier form, ''holla'', whose origin is in the French ''holà'' (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French ''là'' 'there'). As in ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Idols
This is a list of Japanese idol, Japanese idols; a type of celebrity in Japan. The following list includes both female and male idols as well as both solo idols and idol groups. Others * =LOVE (group) * ≠Me (group) * ≒Joy (group) * Cute (Japanese idol group), °C-ute (group) * 3776 (group) * 22/7 (idol group), 22/7 (group) * 2o Love to Sweet Bullet (group) * 3B Junior (group) * 9nine (group) * Love Live! School Idol Project, μ's (group) * &Team, &TEAM (group) * @onefive (group) A * Aa! (group) * AAA (band), AAA (group) * A.B.C-Z (group) * AKB48 (group) * Akishibu Project (group) * Arcana Project (group) * Ali Project (group) * Angerme (group) * Arashi (group) * Athena & Robikerottsu (group) * Ayumikurikamaki (group) * Asami Abe * Nagisa Abe * Natsumi Abe * Shizue Abe * Yumi Adachi * Shoko Aida * Masaki Aiba * Himika Akaneya * Jin Akanishi * Sayaka Akimoto * Mari Amachi * Jun Amaki * Chihiro Anai * Yuko Anai * Sakura Andō (idol), Sakura Andō * Anza (singer), Anza * Hirok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
