, born March 24, 1978 in
Tokyo, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, totaling over 8 million people....
,
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, is the female lead singer of Every Little Thing, a
Japanese popis an abbreviation for Japanese pop, but is also a loosely defined musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s, and has its roots in 1960s music such as The Beatles. It refers to Japanese popular music, and was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese music...
group.
Kaori Mochida was a child actress, appearing in children's magazines and TV spots. Using the stage name of (with
Kaori written in
hiraganais a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora...
)she sang with a girl band called , a group similar to
Morning Musumeis a Japanese girl group, whose act generally revolves around singing and dancing to upbeat melodies. Sometimes referred to as , they are the lead group of Hello! Project, which is masterminded by Naoki Yamazaki and managed by producer Tsunku, who composes nearly all the lyrics and melodies of...
. They changed their name to . The band released only one CD, titled "Mou Ichido", which did not make the charts.
After they made one cd, she left the band to focus on her studies.
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, born March 24, 1978 in
Tokyo, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, totaling over 8 million people....
,
Japanis an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, is the female lead singer of Every Little Thing, a
Japanese popis an abbreviation for Japanese pop, but is also a loosely defined musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s, and has its roots in 1960s music such as The Beatles. It refers to Japanese popular music, and was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese music...
group.
Biography
Kaori Mochida was a child actress, appearing in children's magazines and TV spots. Using the stage name of (with
Kaori written in
hiraganais a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora...
)she sang with a girl band called , a group similar to
Morning Musumeis a Japanese girl group, whose act generally revolves around singing and dancing to upbeat melodies. Sometimes referred to as , they are the lead group of Hello! Project, which is masterminded by Naoki Yamazaki and managed by producer Tsunku, who composes nearly all the lyrics and melodies of...
. They changed their name to . The band released only one CD, titled "Mou Ichido", which did not make the charts.
After they made one cd, she left the band to focus on her studies. When she finished school, Mochida decided that she wanted to become a professional singer, and recorded a demo
cassetteThe Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. Although originally designed for dictation, improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant reel-to-reel tape recording in most...
which she sent to record labels. She was signed to the label
Avex Traxis the holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiaries based in Japan. The origin of the word Avex comes from the English words Audio Visual Expert....
.
Mitsuru Igarashiwas born May 17 1969 in Tokyo. He is the former keyboarder and songwriter of Japanese pop group Every Little Thing. He founded the band in early 1996 with his old friend Ichirō Itō and then 18-year-old singer Kaori Mochida. He left Every Little Thing in April 2000 after releasing the third album...
, music producer, heard Mochida's cassette and asked her to be part of a new band called Every Little Thing along with
Ichiro ItoIchiro Ito , born November 10 1967 in Yokusuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, guitarist of Japanese rock band Every Little Thing. He is also known as Ikkun by ELT fans....
and Igarashi.
Several magazines have named her a fashion icon because of her unique style. She has also promoted several products for Breeze, Toyota, Icebox, Morinaga and Nivea.
Other works
- Mochida provided vocals for the song "In Case of Me" on the 2002 charity
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . The term is relatively general and can technically refer to a public charity or a private foundation. It differs from other types of NPOs in that its focus is centered around goals of a general philanthropic nature A charitable...
albumAn album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites.-...
Song NationSong Nation is a charity compilation album featuring some of the most important Japanese performers from the Avex Trax label. The CD was made to raise money for the September 11, 2001 attacks....
. "In Case of Me" was written by Tetsuya Komuro', also known as TK, is a Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and music producer born on November 27, 1958 in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. He is recognized for introducing dance music to the Japanese mainstream...
and produced by Komuro and Max Matsuura, better known as Max Matsuura, is a record producer and president of one of the largest music labels in Japan, Avex Trax. He is known mainly for discovering and developing new artists and converting them into big stars. Ayumi Hamasaki is the most famous example of Matsuura's work...
.
- She also released a solo single in 2004 called . Both songs on the single are actually cover of songs by Yōsui Inoue
is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music. He is renowned for his unique tone, eccentric lyrics, and dark sunglasses which he always wears....
and the single was produced by Inoue.
- In 2006, Mochida along with Takeshi Kobayashi wrote the lyrics for the single by Haruka Ayase
, born in Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 24, 1985, is a Japanese actress.- Career :In 1999, she successfully passed the Horipro Talent Scout Caravan audition...
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