Richard Magarey is an Australian stuntman, professional wrestler, singer and online streamer, known for his bearded

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persona named . He is currently vocalist of the band Babybeard, formerly with the band

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and Deadlift Lolita.

Early career

According to GirlsWalker, Magarey first started crossdressing when he was 14 years old using his sister's school uniform. Ever since then, cute outfits have been part of his eventual wrestling gimmick. Margarey worked in Supré when he was 18. Magarey graduated from the

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of South Australia Drama Centre in 2004 with a Bachelor of Creative Arts before moving to Melbourne to train in Hong Kong-style martial arts and cinematic stunt work with Paul Andreovski of the

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Wrestling and acting career

Originally from

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, Magarey moved to Hong Kong in 2006 to kickstart his martial arts stunt career in films, later becoming a hit in Hong Kong as a cross-dressing pro wrestler. He held roles in two Michael Gleissner movies: '' Irreversi'', shot in 2010 in Hong Kong (where Magarey was also the

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for lead actor

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), and '' Deep Gold'', shot in 2011 in the

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. He also starred as the main foreign villain in '' The Fortune Buddies''. In October 2013 he moved to Tokyo, Japan to attempt a similar career there. On January 1, 2015 Ladybeard released the DVD+CD "Ladybeard Justice Fight Ai To Yuki To Bikini To Hige To (ジャスティス・ファイト ~愛と勇気とビキニと髭と)". In 2017 Ladybeard was part of the Australian documentary "Big in Japan". In addition to his native English, Ladybeard has conversational levels of Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese and can understand some German.

Championships and accomplishments

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( 3 times) ** KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship ( 1 time) – with

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and Super Sasadango Machine *

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** Fly To Everywhere World Championship ( 1 time)

Music career

Ladybeard's musical style is described as Kawaiicore, a

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(Japanese for "cute") and the -core suffix associated with hardcore metal genres. His motto is "Sing, dance, destroy!".

Ladybaby

In 2015, he formed the band with singers

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and called

. On 4 July, the group released their first track and music video titled 'Nippon Manju' ('Japanese Bun', in English) which is a song that covers all the things they love about Japan. Released in July 2015, the music video went viral on YouTube, at one point gathering 1 million views in 2 days. Their second single, released in Japan on 13 January 2016, debuted at number 15 in the daily

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charts. Ladybeard has since withdrawn from the group. The group re-branded itself, going by "The Idol Formerly Known as Ladybaby". In 2018, the group returned to the original name after Rei left the group and three other girls joined. Ladybeard did however make a guest appearance on the EP "ホシノナイソラ -Starless_Sky-", providing additional growling vocals on the song "ビリビリマネー -Biri Biri Money-".

Deadlift Lolita

On 28 February 2017, Ladybeard announced the formation of a new group, "Deadlift Lolita", with bodybuilding model and wrestler Reika Saiki. They are joined by guitarist , who also accompanied

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. Their first single "Six Pack Twins" was released on 31 March 2017.

Solo and collaborations

On 1 January 2015 Ladybeard released the single CD bonus of the DVD "LadyBeard Justice Fight – Ai to Yuki to Bikini to Hige to -", with the single and four remixes of the song "Ladybeard Justice Fight". On 20 January 2016 Ladybeard was featured in Shiori Tomita single "Valentine Kiss Cover", version of "

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", from

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. On 19 October 2016 Ladybeard released a collaboration single with PEE and Yuuka Furukawa, "Wanchan Aruchan". On 28 October 2016 he released a collaboration single with the Chinese idol group ATF, "Ghost Script". On 23 May 2018 he released a collaboration single with the drummer MURATA TAMU, "Super D & D ~Kanzen ni Lead Shite I My Me~", with "D zettai! Samurai in the rain" as b-side. On 7 July 2020 he made screams in the single from Zakk Cash " Limit Break X Survivor (Dragon Ball Super Collaborative Cover) (feat. Amalee, Ladybeard, Samuel Cristea, Eric Emery, Julian Comeau, Mark Barela, Callgirl & Christian Grey"). All the proceeds from streams are going to

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, supporting victims of the Aussie bushfires, and those most affected by

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Babybeard

On April 12, 2021, Ladybeard announced the formation of a new group called Babybeard with singers Suzu and Kotomi. Their debut releases "Nippon Kara Konnichiwa" and "PIENIZER" began streaming on April 28, 2021. "Nippon Kara Konnichiwa" reached the iTunes Store J-Pop Top Songs Top 2 in Australia on April 28, 2021 and Top 4 in the U.S. on April 29, 2021. Songs for the group were written by Takashi Asano and Natsumi Tadano, the writers of

's "Nippon Manju".

Podcast

In 2022, he launched the podcast "Cat with Beard from JAPAN".

References

External links

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