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Riyu Kosaka
Also known as Miki Roberts
Born January 17, 1985 (1985-01-17) (age 23)
Origin Japanese flag Kanagawa,

Japan
Genre(s) Japanese Pop, JRock, Trance, Eurobeat, Techno
Occupation(s) Singer
Years active 2000-present
Label(s) Konami / avex / Toshiba-EMI
Associated acts BeForU
Website [1]

Riyu Kosaka (小坂 りゆ（小坂 梨由） Kosaka Riyu?) is a J-pop singer, as well as a member of the Konami-produced J-Pop group BeForU. Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. It refers to Japanese popular musicians and was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese musicians from foreign musicians The modern Japanese music scene includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern ranging from rock electro punk folk metal reggae salsa and tango Trance denotes a variety of processes techniques modalities and states of mind awareness and consciousness Eurobeat, as the name implies is a music genre from Europe. It is a sub-genre of 80s Italo disco (a Techno is a form of Electronic dance music (EDM that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music () is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys Trading cards, Anime, Tokusatsu, Slot machines (previous name, is one of Japan 's leading Music companies It became a wholly owned Subsidiary of British music company EMI Group in BeForU is an all female J-Pop group who performed music primarily for the Bemani series of rhythm games J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. It refers to Japanese popular musicians and was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese musicians from foreign musicians () is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys Trading cards, Anime, Tokusatsu, Slot machines BeForU is an all female J-Pop group who performed music primarily for the Bemani series of rhythm games Kosaka was born in Kanagawa, Japan on January 17, 1985. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) [2]

Contents

Biography

Discovery by Konami

On November 20th, 2000, Konami and Toshiba-EMI staff held auditions to form a J-pop group, which would eventually become BeForU. () is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys Trading cards, Anime, Tokusatsu, Slot machines (previous name, is one of Japan 's leading Music companies It became a wholly owned Subsidiary of British music company EMI Group in BeForU is an all female J-Pop group who performed music primarily for the Bemani series of rhythm games A good many people auditioned, and Kosaka, who was then fifteen years old, was one of four who went on to join the group. [3][4] The group, produced by Naoki Maeda, originally made songs specifically for Bemani games -- their first song, DIVE, was promoted intensely in the time leading up to the release of Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX. Naoki Maeda (前田尚紀 Maeda Naoki) (born April 28 in Toyonaka Osaka) more commonly called simply Naoki, is a Japanese music is Konami 's Music video game division Originally named the Games & Music Division, or simply G [5]

true. . .

After Dive's success in 5thMIX, BeForU produced more tracks for inclusion in DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMIX, including Dive ~more deep and deeper style~ and Firefly. DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix is the 6th game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of Music video games It was released in the arcades [6] This is where Kosaka got her first solo track, true.... " true " is the first single by Riyu Kosaka. It was released on October 17th, 2001. Two different versions were included in the game, true. . . (radio edit) and true. . . ~trance sunrise mix~. [7] For the first time for any member of BeForU, a physical CD single was released. including a long version of both the radio edit and the trance sunrise mix, as well as a remix of a solo performance of Dive, renamed Dive to the Night. [8] true. . . was a success in the DDR community, and Kosaka continued to release other songs for use in Bemani both with BeForU and as a solo artist.

Breaking out from Bemani

While they continued to make music for Konami, BeForU began to put more emphasis on themselves as legitimate musicians, and this included Kosaka. In 2004, the band's first CD was released, containing some solo work by Kosaka; in the same year, her first full solo album, begin, was released. [9] Begin contained three original songs, as well as eleven re-recorded Bemani songs, some of which were covers of other artists. A year later, she released Riyu Kosaka First Live at O-EAST 2005, a CD+DVD set of her first full-blown concert. (This cannot actually be considered her first live performance, as she did limited performances to promote her single true. . . . [10]) Since that time, Kosaka has released a number of singles both on her own and with BeForU, as well as a new album with BeForU.

In 2005 and 2006, she also collaborated with Ryo Horikawa as a radio personality for Pakedio Channel, Archive copy at the Internet Archive and her song Little Wings is available on the album Pakedio Channel Vol. né, is a veteran Seiyū born on February 1, 1958 in Osaka, Japan. The Internet Archive ( IA) is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line Library and archive of Web and 1. [11]

In 2007, Riyu Kosaka has recorded a song for the upcoming film Kamen Rider The Next, Platinum Smile. is a 2007 Japanese Tokusatsu Film directed by Ryuta Tasaki and written by Toshiki Inoue. The song will be an insert song for the movie with Kosaka providing the singing voice for Erika Mori, who portrays Chiharu Kazami, the younger sister of Shiro Kazami/Kamen Rider V3. Masked Rider V3 or Masked Rider Version 3 in English, is a Japanese Tokusatsu Television series

Discography

This is a discography of Kosaka's solo work outside of Bemani. For her complete discography see BeForU discography. This is the discography of J-pop group BeForU. BeForU was a J-Pop group from December 31 2000 to December 12 2007

Album cover for the true... single, released shortly after the formation of BeForU.
Album cover for the true. . . single, released shortly after the formation of BeForU.

Singles

Albums

Other CDs

DVDs

References

External links

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