Miwa

• Official site (Japanese)
• Tristone Management site (Japanese)
• Official blog (Japanese)

miwa is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single “Don’t Cry Anymore”, which was used as the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta hi. Miwa was signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan during her third year of high school. She debuted as an artist in 2010, while attending Keio University.  Her debut single, “Don’t Cry Anymore,” was chosen to be used for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi’s theme song.  The single was a minor commercial success, breaking the top 20 on Oricon’s single charts and being certified by the RIAJ as selling 100,000 full length cellphone downloads a month after its release.  In April 2010, the song won the award for best drama theme song at the 64th The Television Drama Academy Awards, beating out songs such as Arashi’s “Troublemaker” and Mr. Children’s “Hanabi.” miwa released her second single, “Little Girl,” in late June.  Her third single, “Change,” was the twelfth opening theme song for the Bleach anime,  and was a top 10 single.  For the animated film adaptation of Eto Mori’s novel Colorful, miwa covered two songs by famous Japanese artists. Yutaka Ozaki’s “Boku ga Boku de Aru Tame ni” was used as the film’s image song, and The Blue Hearts’ song “Aozora” was used as the ending theme song of the film. Both songs were released as digital downloads on August 12, 2010.  miwa considers her favorite Western musicians to be Sheryl Crow, Deep Purple, Carole King, Avril Lavigne and Taylor Swift. Her favorite Japanese musicians are Aiko, Angela Aki, Radwimps and Yuki. miwa previously been a DJ on monthly radio show on All Night Nippon, miwa no All Night Nippon R (miwaのオールナイトニッポンR), every third Monday from 3:00am to 5:00am. It has since then been changed into a weekly show, now known as miwa no All Night Nippon (miwaのオールナイトニッポン), airing every Tuesday (early Wednesday) from 1:00am to 3:00am.   miwa released her first album Guitarissimo on April 6, 2011 (was scheduled to release a week earlier on end of March but was delayed due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunamiand its aftereffects). The charts performance was miwa’s best overall: the album reached No. 1 in the Oricon’s album charts, making miwa the first Heisei period-born solo singer to reach a No. 1 on the album charts in the history of the Oricon.

Kendall Francis Schmidt

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• Kendall Schmidt at the Internet Movie Database

Kendall Francis Schmidt (born November 2, 1990) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He is best known for playing Kendall Knight in Big Time Rush and has played small roles on several TV shows such as ER, Without a Trace, Phil of the Future, Ghost Whisperer, and Frasier. Kendall began his acting career at age five, appearing in a Chex television commercial. When he was nine years old, he was one of two young actors who were hired to be Haley Joel Osment’s stand-in and body double (they shared the same agent) in the Steven Spielberg film, A.I. Artificial Intelligence. He celebrated his birthday on the set, and Spielberg and the cast surprised him with a birthday cake decorated with Star Wars figures.When he was 10 years old, his family finally made the move from Kansas to California. Schmidt soon landed recurring roles on General Hospital, Titus, Raising Dad, Gilmore Girls and CSI: Miami. He guest starred on a variety of TV shows, including ER, MADtv, Frasier andPhil of the Future. Most recently, Kendall guest starred on Without a Trace and Ghost Whisperer. On the big screen, he has appeared in Minority Report and According to Spencer. In 2009, Schmidt was cast as the fourth and final co-lead of the TV show Big Time Rush. Kendall portrays a character like himself with the name of Kendall Knight, the calm and relaxed leader of Big Time Rush.

Music

Kendall Schmidt is a part of the boy band Big Time Rush. They have released 2 Albums so far. Beforehand, Schmidt was apart of a duo band called Heffron Drive between him and BTR’s now guitarist, Dustin Belt. He was also the replacement lead singer of the band “Lovers Make Liars” and also performed with the band at the 2008 Vans Warped Tour

Lena Meyer-Landrut

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• Lena Meyer-Landrut at the Internet Movie Database

Lena Meyer-Landrut (born 23 May 1991), known professionally as Lena, is a German singer-songwriter. She represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo, Norway, and won the contest with the song “Satellite”. With her three entries from the German national final Unser Star für Oslo (Our Star for Oslo), Meyer-Landrut set an all-time chart record in her home country by debuting with three songs in the top five of the German singles chart. Both “Satellite” and her first album My Cassette Player debuted at number one in Germany, while the former has been certified double Platinum since, the album has been certified five times Gold for sales of over 500,000 units. Meyer-Landrut represented Germany, for the second consecutive time, in the Eurovision Song Contest at Düsseldorf in 2011 with the song “Taken by a Stranger”. The BBC called “Satellite” the first “contemporary pop hit Eurovision has produced in decades”, ushering in “a new era for the annual music jamboree”.  Meyer-Landrut’s victory received much attention in Germany and the show was seen by 15 million viewers on German television (a 49.1 percent market share). She returned to Hanover the following day, where she was greeted by 40,000 people.  In June, “Satellite” regained the top spot in the German singles chart for one week and also peaked at number one in Denmark,  Finland,  Norway,  Sweden and Switzerland.    It also topped European Hot 100 singles chart, being the first Eurovision song to achieve this. Meyer-Landrut attempted to defend her title in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.  She was the third winner to do so, and the first in over 50 years. In the German dubbed version of the computer-animated film Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage, Meyer-Landrut provided the voice for the character originally spoken by Isabelle Fuhrman. In January 2011, the TV-Show “Unser Song für Deutschland” was announced. The viewers of the show decided for Meyer-Landrut’s 2011 Eurovision song.  All twelve songs Meyer-Landrut performed during that show were recorded on her second studio album Good News which was released on 8 February 2011. The album managed to reach a Gold status for selling more than 100,000 units in Germany in its first week of release. On February 18, the “Unser Song für Deutschland” final was held and it was decided through televoting that Meyer-Landrut would perform the entry “Taken by a Stranger” in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. where it was placed tenth. The song was released on 22 February 2011. In April 2011 she went on her first German tour in the largest concert halls in Berlin, Hanover, Frankfurt, Dortmund, Leipzig, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne. The concert in Frankfurt was recorded on video and was released on DVD in May 2011 which went to #1 in German DVD chart.

Lucas Stephen Grabeel

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• Official Lucas Grabeel Brazilian Fansite

Lucas Stephen Grabeel ( born November 23, 1984) is an American actor, singer, dancer, songwriter, director and producer. As a performer, he is best known for his role as Ryan Evans in Disney Channel Original Movie’s High School Musical (2006) and its sequels High School Musical 2 (2007) and High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008), and as Ethan Dalloway in the third and fourth installments of the Halloweentown series: Halloweentown High (2004) and Return to Halloweentown (2006). He currently plays Toby Kennish in the ABC Family drama Switched at Birth. Aside his involvement in the High School Musical soundtracks, Grabeel has recorded a song called “You Know I Will” for the soundtrack of The Fox and the Hound 2 and also recorded his own version of the Michael Bolton track “Go the Distance”, from Disney’s Hercules, for DisneyMania 5. In 2007, Grabeel co-wrote and recorded a song called “You Got It”  which was released on iTunes on August 19, 2007 while its accompanying music video was released on his official website. Grabeel also recorded another original song called “Trash Talkin'” which was released November 15, 2008 on YouTube. Grabeel also sings in the iTunes show I Kissed a Vampire, in which, he stars. In early 2009, he appeared at the Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.), an AIDS charity event, in Beverly Hills performing George and Ira Gershwin’s “I Can’t Be Bothered Now”   In 2007, Grabeel founded a production company called 14341 Productions. His role within involves overseeing many projects from writing, directing and executive producing. The company have produced projects such as the short films The Real Son, Smoke Break; the music videos for “Get Your Ass On” and “You Got It”. They also produced a TV pilot called Regarding Beauregard which was Grabeel’s directorial debut. They are currently working on a short film, The Adventures Of Chuckle Boy, and have just released a short film The Dragon. They debuted their work at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Sayuri Sugawara

Official site Sayuri Sugawara (菅原 紗由理 Sugawara Sayuri?, born June 29, 1990) is a Japanese singer. She has recently gained recognition outside of Japan for the song “Because You’re Here” (君がいるから Kimi ga Iru Kara?), the theme song for the Japanese version of Final Fantasy XIII, In January 2008, Sayuri Sugawara participated in the “7 Days Audition” and the “30 Days Audition”. She won both auditions and received a contract with For Life Music Entertainment. On December 17, 2008, Sugawara released her first song digitally through Chaku Uta; Destiny is sampled from Franz Liszt’s classical masterpiece Liebesträume and featured rapper Feros. In April 2009, Sugawara released her debut mini-album, Kimi ni Okuru Uta. Following the digital success of her debut song, Sugawara released her debut single Ano Hi no Yakusoku on September 30, 2009. On September 3, 2009, at the Final Fantasy XIII premiere, it was announced that she would perform its theme song, Kimi ga Iru Kara. Composed by Masashi Hamauzu, Sugawara performed the song with a live orchestral accompaniment at the premiere. A single for Kimi ga Iru Kara was released on December 2, two weeks before the release date of Final Fantasy XIII. Her first album, First Story, was released on January 27, 2010. And peaked at number 14 on the Oricon charts, selling 10,217 copies. Sugawara’s third single, Sunao ni Narenakute, released May 19, 2010 was used as the insert song for the drama of the same title: Sunao ni Narenakute, starring Eita and Ueno Juri. Also on September 1, 2010, Sugawara’s fourth single, “Suki to Iu Kotoba”, was used as the theme song to the 2010 version of the drama; Kasouken no Onna. On October 16 and 24, Sugawara held her first live tour at Shinsaibashi and Shibuya Club Quattro titled “Sugawara Sayuri Live Tour – The One”. And also held school festival live tours in November at Touhou, Kitasato and Momoyama Universities. On December 22, 2010, Sugawara released her second mini album, Close To You, starting the second chapter of her career. Starting January 4, 2011 and for the next six months, Sayuri will be a regular on FM Osaka as a DJ. The pre-recorded performance will be broadcast every other week on a Tuesday night at 9 o’clock. The show is titled; “E∞Tracks Selection, Sugawara Sayuri no Osaka Manyuu Nikki” [Sugawara Sayuri’s Osaka Pleasure Trip Diary] After releasing her latest mini-album, Close To You, in December 2010, Sugawara embarked on a mini live tour titled “Close To You” in late February 2011, with performances at Club Quattro in Shinsaibashi on February 25 and Nagoya’s E.L.L. on March 2, finally, the final tour took place in Akasaka on March 4, 2011. Over 1,000 fans packed into Akasaka Blitz for the final concert of the tour

Juri Ueno

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• Juri Ueno at the Internet Movie Database

Juri Ueno (上野 樹里 Ueno Juri?, born May 25, 1986) is a Japanese actress from Kakogawa, Hyogo, Japan. She was one of six actors to receive the “Newcomer of the Year” prize at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2005 for her role in Swing Girls. She is also known for her starring role as the title character in the live-action adaptation of Nodame Cantabile for which she won “Best Lead Actress” at the 51st Television Drama Academy Awards in 2007, and as Ruka Kishimoto in Last Friends for which she was voted “Best Supporting Actress” at the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix[1] and the 57th Television Drama Academy Awards in 2008. In 2004, Ueno took on a supporting role in TBS’s romance drama, Orange Days, and co-starred in 2005 with Takuya Kimura in Fuji TV’s romantic comedy Engine as Misae Hoshino. She also appeared withKazuya Kamenashi in the special television movie of Kinda’ichi Shōnen no Jikenbo the same year taking over the role of Miyuki Nanase from Anne Suzuki.   Ueno’s popularity rose further when she was cast as Megumi Noda (“Nodame”) in the 2006 live-action television adaptation of the popular manga Nodame Cantabile. Co-starring opposite Hiroshi Tamaki, the series’ 11-episode run was a success with an average viewership rating of 18.79% with the season finalé garnering 21.7% of the viewership share for its time slot. Ueno’s portrayal as the eccentric and disorganized but yet extremely affable and talented pianist won her “Best Lead Actress” at the 51st Television Drama Academy Awards while the show won “Best Drama”. The show was also recognized overseas at the 2nd Seoul Drama Festival where it was awarded “Best Miniseries”. Ueno and Tamaki reprised their roles in 2007 in the two-part special, Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe, which chronicles their individual struggles to achieve success on Europe’s storied classical music stage whilst being away from each other.

In 2008, Ueno reunited with Nodame co-stars, Eita and Asami Mizukawa, in Fuji TV’s drama, Last Friends, as Ruka Kishimoto, a talented motocross racer with a hidden secret she cannot discuss with friends or family. Taeko Asano, the screenwriterof Last Friends praised Ueno’s acting of Ruka, stating that Ueno is a “natural genius” and that she became “the character itself”.  Ueno won “Best Supporting Actress” at the 12th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix and The 57th Television Drama Academy Awards for her role.  She was recognised as “Best Student Voice Actress” at the 2008 MTV Student Voice Awards for her role in Wanko. The Japanese version of Vogue named her as one of the “Women of the Year 2008”. On December 9, 2008, it was announced that Ueno would again reprise her role as “Nodame” in a new Nodame Cantabile two-movie sequel slated for release in 2010. Filming is set to start in May 2009. On January 25, 2010, it was announced that Ueno would be the lead in the 2011 NHK Taiga drama Gō based on an original script by Atsuhime writer Kumiko Tabuchi (田渕 久美子 Tabuchi Kumiko^?). with filming starting in August 2010. The series is Ueno’s first role in a historical drama. Gō is NHK’s 50th Taiga drama, and only its 10th drama with a woman as the main character. On April 15, 2010, Ueno took the role of “Haru” in the spring J-Drama Sunao ni Narenakute which tells a story of the blossoming friendship between five people through Twitter, along with Eita, Hero Jaejoong, Megumi Seki and Tetsuji Tamayama. On September 11, 2010, Ueno guest starred in the Korean variety show MBC’s We Got Married Season 2 while promoting Nodame Cantabile – The Movie and paid a visit to SNSD’s Seohyun and CN Blue’s Jung Yong Hwa

Jung Yong Hwa

• CN Blue official website (Korean)
• CN Blue official Japanese website (Japanese)

Jung Yong Hwa (정용화 born on June 22, 1989) is a South Korean musician, singer-songwriter and actor. His first name is also written as Yonghwa, Yong-Hwa, or Yong-hwa. Jung made his show business debut as “Kang Shin-woo” in the Korean drama You’re Beautiful on 7 October 2009 and played the male lead as “Lee Shin” in the 2011 drama Heartstrings. Jung is the leader, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band CN Blue. Jung Yong Hwa made his singer debut with the idol band CN Blue on 14 January 2010. On 25 May 2010, an FNC Music representative announced that Jung had been diagnosed with vocal cord nodules and acute laryngitis. Jung was hospitalized for treatment from 24 to 27 May 2010 and may require surgery in future. On 14 January 2011, Jung released his first solo digital single, “For First Time Lovers. In 20 August 2011, Jung and Girls’ Generation member Seohyun performed Banmal Song together as a special duet on stage at the “K-pop All Star Live” concert in Niigata, Japan.  On 19 October 2011, Jung made his Japan major debut with his self-composed title song “In My Head” under the major label Warner Music Japan. The song “In My Head” was also chosen as the ending song for the Japanese animation Supernatura. In 2009, Jung Yong Hwa landed his first acting role as Kang Shin-woo in the SBS drama You’re Beautiful, which aired from October 7 to November 26, 2009. As the series revolves around the life of a musical group, he played the role of the lead guitarist in the faux idol band A.N.Jell along with fellow co-stars Jang Keun-suk the group leader, Park Shin-hye, and Lee Hongki of FT Island. He gained high popularity through his acting as a member of the fictional band, A.N.Jell. Nearly two years after his acting debut, Jung was chosen as the male lead of the MBC drama Heartstrings, along with Park Shin-hye, a co-star fromYou’re Beautiful. The drama is a South Korean youthful melodrama about the main characters’ love and dreams, which was first aired on 29 June 2011.

Dierks Bentley

 Dierks Bentley  (born November 20, 1975^]) is an American singer and songwriter who has been signed to Capitol Nashville since 2003. That year, he released his self-titled debut album. Both it and its follow-up, 2005’s Modern Day Drifter, are certified platinum in the United States.

A third album, 2006’s Long Trip Alone, is certified gold. It was followed in mid-2008 by a greatest hits package. His fourth album, Feel That Fire was released in February 2009. A bluegrass studio album, Up on the Ridge, was released on June 8, 2010, and then a sixth album, Home, followed in February 2012, as did a seventh one, Riser, in 2014.

Bentley’s studio albums have accounted for eighteen singles on the country singles chart, of which thirteen have reached No. 1: his debut single “What Was I Thinkin'”, as well as “Come a Little Closer”, “Settle for a Slowdown”, “Every Mile a Memory”, “Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)”, “Feel That Fire”, “Sideways”, “Am I the Only One”, “Home”, “5-1-5-0”, “I Hold On”, “Drunk on a Plane” and “Say You Do”. Four more of his singles have reached the top 5.

Bentley’s latest release, a new 13 track studio album titled “Black” will be released May 27, 2016

Albums

• Don’t Leave Me in Love (2001)
• Dierks Bentley (2003)
• Modern Day Drifter (2005)
• Long Trip Alone (2006)
• Greatest Hits/Every Mile a Memory 2003–2008 (2008)
• Feel That Fire (2009)
• Up on the Ridge (2010)
• Home (2012)
• Riser (2014)
• Black (2016)

Connie Talbot

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• Official channel on YouTube

Connie Talbot (born 20 November 2000) is an English child singer from Streetly, West Midlands. She rose to fame in 2007 when she reached the final of the first series of Britain’s Got Talent, where she was runner-up to Paul Potts. Talbot was supposed to sign with Sony BMG but the label pulled out of the deal due to her age. Talbot signed with Rainbow Recording Company and released her debut album Over the Rainbow in the UK on 26 November 2007. The album was re-released 18 June 2008 with a new track listing, and the first single from the album, a cover of Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds”, was released on 10 June. Despite its negative critical reception, Over the Rainbow has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide and reached number one in three countries. Since the initial album release, Talbot has performed publicly and on television in Europe, the U.S. and across Asia, where her music had gained recognition through YouTube. Her second album, Connie Talbot’s Christmas Album, was released on 24 November 2008; her third, Holiday Magic, was released in late 2009. While pursuing her musical career, Talbot attends school, and lives in Streetly with her family.
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Marija Sestic

Marija Šestić (Serbian: Марија Шестић) (born May 5, 1987, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian Serb singer and musician. She is most known for representing Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Performing the song “Rijeka bez imena” (“Nameless river”), Šestić collected a total of 106 points, placing eleventh out of twenty-four entries. Šestić has achieved top results in domestic festivals and also had the chance to be the first artist from the former Yugoslavia to appear on MTV Europe. Marija attempted to reach Eurovision in 2005 and with the song “In This World”, she ended up in a respectable fourth place at the national final. Her father, Dušan Šestić, composed the national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Intermeco.

Music Festival Wins

• Young Talents Festival – Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1st Place three years in a row
• St George’s Day Festival – Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 3rd Place in 1995, 1st Place in 1996
• “Naša radost” – Podgorica, Montenegro – special award for performance in 1998
• “Zlatno zvonce” – Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia – winner of the first place for performance in 1999
• Banja Luka international pop music festival – Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Best Newcomer Award in 2003
• The Golden Star” international festival – Bucharest, Romania – 1st Prize for Performance in 2004
• Banja Luka international pop music festival – Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 2nd Place in 2005