, known professionally as Rainy (stylized as Rainy。), is a Japanese-Australian former model and singer-songwriter, who debuted on 5 May 2022 and is currently signed under B Zone label, subsidiaries of

B Zone (aka B ZONE Group), formerly known as (aka Being Giza Group), is a Japanese private entertainment conglomerate and recording label based in Tokyo's Roppongi district, founded on November 1, 1978, by music producer Daiko Nagato. The company an ...

. She is half Australian and half Japanese.

Career

Between 2018 and 2021, under the stage name Ruca (Lucia), she was 2nd generation of image model and child singer under the ''Studio fluke'' model agency's group ''Team KSC''. In 2019, Rainy won the Grand Prix at "Kyushu Teen's Audition 2019" held by the Being Group. In 2020, she made appearance on the music television program ''Ongaku Champ 2020 Haru Special'' broadcast on

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, performed Chris Hearts's ''I love you''. Between January and March 2022, Rainy uploaded English cover songs on her YouTube channel. During the recording sessions, her face has not been revealed at the time and has been masked by shadow silhouette. On 4 May, she made her major debut with the debut single "Find the Truth" as the artist of

Group and its same-named recording label. The song served as an ending theme to the anime television series Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time. In 2023, her third digital single Kizunaen has been used as a theme song to the console game

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. On her 15th birthday on 28 June, she released her first full-length album Rainy Universe. In August, she released her first physical single ''...and Rescue me'', the single served as an ending theme to the television series

Case Closed ''Case Closed'', also known as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' since January 1994; its chapters are collected in 10 ...

. The single debut at number 36 on the Weekly Charts and topped for 5 weeks.

Discography

As of the 2023, she has released 5 digital singles, 1 physical single and one original album.

Singles

Collaboration singles

Digital singles

Albums

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rainy 2008 births 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers B Zone artists Japanese female models Japanese women pop singers Living people Singers from Fukuoka