#ceyren

6. Bossy, competent, weird

10. Clothing wise: fairly conservative/classic. More pants than skirts. Patterns tend to be either plaid, stripes, or dark florals. Mostly neutral dark colors, plus green and blue. Over time I’m probably going to phase out a lot of the one-off weirder purchases  and make things more coherent but right now I’m not making a huge amount of money so if it fits and looks pretty good I’m making it work.

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ZOO was a co-ed group, but we hadn’t seen any performance or vocal group like this being created by HIRO at LDH, however the company had always tried to have female musical acts that shared EXILE’s DNA.

One of the first females to get labeled as one of the EXILES was singer and songwriter NaNa. As a solo act she didn’t achieved too much with LDH but she did some collaborations with other acts and of course with EXILE too: The song No Other Man, written by STY and produced by h-wonder. 

STY would also produce NaNa’s single debut under UNIVERSAL SIGMA, the song Movin’on, released on September 5th of 2007, a late 2000’s Japanese R&B song with an image that had an obvious influence from the late vocalist and actress Aaliyah. 

She released a second single titled SHOW GIRL on December 12th of 2007, a song that fit perfectly with the trend in J-Pop R&B-themed music and singers like Miliyah Kato or the US’ pop singer Jennifer Lopez were doing at the time. 

She signed for Tiny Voice Production on 2009 as a songwriter, then she released a third single titled Merry Christmas on October 2010. NaNa is currently writing songs for the likes of Happiness, Crystal Kay, w-inds, Da-iCe, Koda Kumi or Mao Denda among other acts and has a clothes brand (ALOHA Diamonds).

NaNa tried to re-launch her solo career on 2014 with the release of the digital single 7WALK. Then, on July of 2015, she launched another single titled Trippy Girl (under OG Records). She is also a dancer and choreographer, as she started her career with the dance unit OH GIRL! That is still active.

NaNa’s dancing group, OH GIRL! above.

Another of LDH’s first female soloists was the singer CEYREN, whom debuted in the year 2006 with the single Ame (rain) with the label AVEX. 

CEYREN started being an indie singer with the release of the single by Ken “baby” H, the song Get it started feat. EQUAL in 2003. Then she participated in a project for BRATZ, being the lead vocalist for a series of songs (under the name BRATZ). For that project, she recorded the songs Show me what you got with Korean singer, BoA, and Howie D (from Backstreet Boys), as well as LOOK AROUND with R&B US singer and songwriter, Christina Millian and verbal from m-flo.

She was a ballad singer that sometimes had influences from R&B. She would launch two more singles under LDH:

 ALL FOR YOU / CRAZY FOR YOU (2006)

and the single WITH YOU (2007). 

It seems she was transferred into the sub-label J-more in 2008 and probably left LDH at that moment. CEYREN is currently doing activities in the duo named BOLDO that she formed with Ken Harada.

Image sources:

http://iflyer.tv/ja/artist/8218/#lang

http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/ceyren/lyrics/with-you::16850.html

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/let-u-go-single/id275169293

Sources:

http://oh-nana-music.com/biography/

http://ameblo.jp/oh-nana/

http://jcctokyo.com/artist/nana/

http://datab.us/Search/OH%2BGIRL!%2B(MAIKO,AKO,NANAKO,NaNa)%2BPlayListIDPL845F7911EEA67E26

http://ceyren.jp/disc.html

https://sonichits.com/artist/CEYREN

how are they

well, two are preparing for a universe-wide war

two more are getting ready to fight a giant monster

why is it getting worse

 I don’t know how to approach my mom about going...

how long did you stop

over a year, but I never took anything huge, just classic anti depressants, I just want to feel in control and functional again, right now I’m at loss, I can’t focus, I can’t improve, I keep misbehaving, missing classes, not sleeping, avoiding homework....I can’t keep doing this

Red:What's really attractive in a person (physically and not)?

I think that when you find someone attractive already, it’s extra attractive to find out about their weird quirks like how they won’t eat more than one flavor of ice cream or how they’re over 20 and still hate all vegetables, but also like how they know the whole lyrics to a Backstreet Boys song because it used to be their favorite when they were 6 years old, stuff like that. 

Then of course, there’s regular stuff like their smile, their laughter, their voice and hair, their height. I also have a very weird thing for chins?? Well, there’s that.

Orange:What/Who was your first and last concerts?

I think my first concert ever was still a children’s group. The latest one was from a popular Brazilian singer I like (I may have to send you a CD one of these days) but before that we got free VIP tickets to the Paul McCartney concert because my friend’s family is important in town and we weren’t going but then he was like “hey, i got vip tickets, what you doing tonight?” so we went and there was some delicious chicken pie there. 

I wish I could go to more concerts but they’re usually not in my town and very expensive. Ed Sheehan is gonna be here in the end of the month but it’s in São Paulo AND the tickets are super expensive so 3.

Yellow:What is something you're looking forward to?

I want to show my friend this youtube series I know she’ll like and laugh a lot but she hasn’t managed to come by yet so I’m half excited about it, half super disappointed already? haha Other than that, not much.