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Kis-My-Ft2
is a six-member Japanese boy band under Starto Entertainment. They are known for their performances on roller skates. The group is named after one letter of each member's initials and after "the anecdote that tap dancer Gregory Hines kissed the shoe of esteemed Sammy Davis Jr. The group was formed in 26 July 2005 when they were trainees (Johnny's Jr.) and debuted on 10 August 2011. The members of this group are Kento Senga, Toshiya Miyata, Wataru Yokoo, Taisuke Fujigaya, Yuta Tamamori and Takashi Nikaido. They have been active with seven members including Hiromitsu Kitayama since their debut, but since Kitayama left the group in August 2023, they are currently active with six members. In January 2022, Kis-My-Ft2 moved from label Avex Trax to MENT Recording. MENT Recording was a newly established joint label between Avex Entertainment and Johnny & Associates. Other Johnny's group under Avex Trax, Snow Man, moved to MENT Recording as well. Member * * * * * * ;Former mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kento Senga
is a Japanese singer, actor and artist who is a member of boy band Kis-My-Ft2 and its derivative group Busaiku( 舞祭組) under Starto Entertainment. His nickname is ''Sen-chan''. History Senga was born in Atsuta-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. He grew up in an affluent family and, following his mother's encouragement, tried various extracurricular activities. However, he became most passionate about dancing, which he started at the age of three. Senga was so passionate that he ended up attending four different dance schools in Nagoya. In third grade, after watching Michael Jackson's music video for ''Bad,'' he was inspired to become a cool artist like him. When he was in fifth grade, his mother, who was acquainted with Sho Sakurai's friend from Arashi, took him to an Arashi concert. He was impressed by the stage design and special effects, which reminded him of a Michael Jackson live show. This experience inspired him to audition for Johnny & Associates. After auditioning, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuta Tamamori
is a Japanese actor and singer who is a member of boy band Kis-My-Ft2 under Starto Entertainment. His nickname is Tama and Tama-chan. He is often described as the face of Kis-My-Ft2. In addition to his boy band activities, he is mainly active as an actor. His recent major roles include the TV dramas ''La Grande Maison Tokyo'' and ''Oh My Boss! Love not included'' and the movies ''Parallel World Love Story#Movie, Parallel World Love Story'' and ''Shylock's Children#Movie, Shylock's Children''. He is also known for his dubbing voice work for Pixar film ''Elemental (2023 film), Elemental'' in 2023. Early years Tamamori was born in Tokyo in 1990. His parents were still young when he was born; his mother was 17 and his father was 20. Therefore, although they were not a wealthy family, he grew up in a close family. When he was in the first year of junior high school, his mother, who was a fan of Tomohisa Yamashita, secretly sent Johnny & Associates a resume. He initially refused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiya Miyata
is a Japanese singer, actor, TV personality, voice actor, and novelist. he is a member of boys band Kis-My-Ft2 and its derivative group Busaiku( 舞祭組) under Starto Entertainment. His nickname is Miyacchi. History Miyata was born in 1988 in Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He comes from the same hometown as Hiroshi Nagano of V6, a senior in his talent agency Johnny & Associates. Miyata attended the same elementary and junior high schools that Nagano had attended, and as a child, he received his first bicycle—purchased by his parents—from the bicycle shop run by Nagano's family, which is well known for operating a bike store. Since Miyata's mother was a big fan of Koichi Domoto of the Kinki Kids and hoped her son would become a prince-like star like Koichi, she sent Miyata's resume to the Johnny & Associates. After auditioning, Miyata joined Johnny & Associates on February 4, 2001. Wataru Yokoo and Takashi Nikaido, who would later become members of Kis-My-Ft2, also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taisuke Fujigaya
is a Japanese singer, actor, and radio personality. He is a member of boy band Kis-My-Ft2 under Starto Entertainment. His nicknames are Taipy, Gaya-san, and Gaya. In addition to working as an actor alongside his boy band activities in Kis-My-Ft2, he has been a radio personality of "Peaceful days of Taisuke Fujigaya (:ja:藤ヶ谷太輔 Peaceful Days, 藤ヶ谷太輔 Peaceful Days)" since 2019 and the main host of the TV talk show ":ja:A-Studio, A-Studio" with Shōfukutei Tsurube II since 2020. On April 23, 2024, the official Instagram was launched. History When Fujigaya was 11 years old, his aunt secretly sent his resume to Johnny & Associates for an audition. He was initially unsuccessful in the audition, but when he was leaving, he did not know where to return his number tag, so he spoke to an elderly man nearby, who turned out to be the president, Johnny Kitagawa. On Kitagawa's decision, Fujigaya passed the audition and joined Johnny & Associates in 1998. Also in the auditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Nikaido
is a Japanese actor and singer who is a member of boy band Kis-My-Ft2 and its derivative group Busaiku ( 舞祭組) under Starto Entertainment. His nickname is ''Nika'' and ''Nika-chan''. History Nikaido's older sister was a fan of the Kinki Kids and sent Nikaido's resume to the Johnny & Associates when he was 10 years old. He said his sister told him that he was going to a Kinki Kids concert today and took him to the audition site. After auditioning, he joined Johnny & Associates in February 2001. At the same audition venue were Toshiya Miyata and Wataru Yokoo, who later became members of Kis-My-Ft2. He was only 10 years old when he entered show business, and it is said that he had a rebellious period due to the frustration of not being able to CD debut quickly. At the Johnny's, which had a strict hierarchical relationship, he surprised everyone by calling his seniors without an honorific title. When he met Shingo Katori of SMAP, the most successful group in Johnny's at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wataru Yokoo
is a Japanese singer, actor and haiku poet who is a member of boy band Kis-My-Ft2 and its derivative group Busaiku( 舞祭組) under Starto Entertainment. His nickname is ''Watter'' and ''Shi-sho'' (master in Japanese). History He joined Johnny & Associates on February 4, 2001. He was taken to the audition site by his brother who told him to go to futsal. At the same audition, Toshiya Miyata and Takashi Nikaido, who later became members of Kis-My-Ft2 also participated. As a trainee (Johnny's Jr.), he was a member of J-support (later renamed K.K.Kity) until 2003, in April 2004 he was selected as a member of Kis-My-Ft. and started working with Hiromitsu Kitayama and Taisuke Fujigaya, and in July 2005, Yuta Tamamori, Toshiya Miyata, Kento Senga, and Takashi Nikaido joined to form Kis-My-Ft2 and became its members. In October 2010, he made his first drama appearance in Fuji TV's "Freelancer Buys a House". Kis-My-Ft2 made their CD debut with "Everybody Go" on August 10, 2011, seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busaiku
is a Japanese boy band with four members from Kis-My-Ft2. They debuted on December 13, 2013 with the release of their first single "Tana Kara Botamochi" produced by Masahiro Nakai. They were dressed in plain suits like businessmen and sang many comical songs like comedians. "Busaiku" means "ugly" or "uncool" in Japanese, and was taken from the name of Kis-My-Ft2 namesake show ''Kis-My Busaiku'', which was unusual for a group name from the idol agency, Johnny & Associates. Their single ""Michishirube"" was List of Oricon number-one singles of 2017, number-one on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart. Overview On the October 5, 2013 broadcast of "Kiss My Busaiku! (Fuji Television), Masahiro Nakai who was a member of SMAP, mentioned that the "back four" four members of Kis-My-Ft2, Wataru Yokoo, Toshiya Miyata, Takashi Nikaido, and Kento Senga, were not getting much attention compared to the front members, Hiromitsu Kitayama, Taisuke Fujigaya, and Yuta Tamamori. He also offered to provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MENT Recording
MENT Recording Inc. is a Japanese recording company and record label of the same name, founded on 11 January 2022. It was jointly established by Johnny & Associates and Avex Inc. History On January 11, 2022, record company Avex Trax and former talent agency Johnny & Associates announced the joint establishment of MENT Recording Inc. The company is a privately held company. The meaning of "MENT" is an acronym for the four words "Music," "Entertainment," "Network," and "Transmission." "MENT" itself has a variety of meanings at the beginning and end of words, which is why it was chosen as the company name. The founding president was former president of Johnny & Associates Julie Keiko Fujishima. Shintaro Higuchi, a current president of the company, is an executive of an subsidiary of Avex Inc. He was a director of subsidiary Avex Entertainment Inc. until July 2023 and has been chairman of the board of Avex Music Creative Inc. since August 1, 2023. Former V6 members (20th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny's Jr
was a Japanese talent agency formed by Johnny Kitagawa in 1962, which managed groups of male idols known as The company had a significant impact on pop culture with male idols and boy bands in Japan since the 1980s. Until 2019, the company was known for its strict policies regarding music distribution abroad and its strict control over the right of publicity to using the likeness of idols under its management. In the wake of continuing sexual abuse allegations directed against Kitagawa, who died in 2019, his niece, Julie Keiko Fujishima, stepped down as president in September 2023. On October 2, 2023, Johnny & Associates announced that they would be splitting into two entities: Smile-Up, a firm focused on reparations for Kitagawa's sexual abuse cases, and Starto Entertainment, a talent agency managing the acts that had been managed under Johnny & Associates. History 1962–1989 In 1962, Kitagawa launched his first group, Johnnys. In its early days, Kitagawa's agency rente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiromitsu Kitayama
is a Japanese idol, singer and actor, under Tobe, former member of Johnny & Associates boy band Kis-My-Ft2. Kitayama has also appeared in many television drama series such as ''Kazoku Gari'' (as Suzuki Keitoku) and in musicals such as Let's Sing A Song Of Love (celebrating 40 years of Kansai TV). Kitayama left the group and the agency on 31 August 2023. History Hiromitsu Kitayama attended Horikoshi High School and graduated from Asia University in 2008. He entered Johnny's in 2002 and debuted in 2011 as member of Kis-My-Ft2. Kitayama left the group and the agency on 31 August 2023. On 13 September 2023, a teaser video with the name "#TOBECONTINUED" was released on TOBE's official YouTube. The new artist was to be revealed on the 17, but voices in X (formerly Twitter) were already guessing the identity of the new member to be Kitayama, who had recently left Johnny's. On 17 September 2023, Kitayama's identity was revealed, introducing him as TOBE's latest member. In the same v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Man
Snow Man is a Japanese idol boy band under Starto Entertainment. The group's activities focused on acrobats and stage play. Snow Man made their official debut on January 22, 2020, at the same time as SixTones. The groups' simultaneous debut marked the first time for two groups to debut on the same day in the company's history. "D.D."/"Imitation Rain" became the best-selling debut release in Asian history with more than 1.8 million physical copies sold, making Snow Man the best selling debut group since KAT-TUN in 2006. It is also the first male idol single in 17 years to remain in the top 100 of the Oricon chart for more than 100 weeks. Since their debut in 2020, the group has sold over 20 million physical copies in Japan. In 2021, their debut studio album, ''Snow Mania S1'', sold in its first week more than 841k physical copies, and became in the best selling first week for a boy group studio album in Japanese history, and the second best week for a debut album in the country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
