Ryouta Katayose

Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6RexcbImnLm1O83WNPzZV2 Apple Musichttps://music.apple.com/us/artist/ryotakatayose/957661806 Instagramhttps://instagram.com/ryotakatayoseofficial Weibohttp://weibo.com/ryotakatayoseoffical Ryota Katayose is a singer performer actor and model. He belongs to the Jpop group GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE under the talent agency LDH JAPAN. Having music teachers as both his grandfather and father he grew up playing the piano. He performed mostly as an accompanist at choir contests and didnt have any thought of becoming an entertainer. But after being fascinated by the performance of the wellknown Jpop group EXILE in a live concert that his mother invited him to he considered the idea for the first time. Spurred on by his penchant for singing and compliments for it at karaoke he decided to go for it in high school. His budding dream of becoming an artist grew slowly as he was further inspired by the passionate fellow auditionees and the words of EXILEs vocalist ATSUSHI to him. So despite not being selected after reaching the final of a major vocal audition he seriously began taking lessons with scholarship at EXPG a school of performing arts from LDH. A year later he became a candidate member of the group GENERATIONS and another year later in 2012 he made his debut with the group as an official member. Besides his position as mainly a vocalist and also a performer dancer he wrote lyrics for his group a few times as well. Additionally hes quite active as a model and actor. The protagonists role in the liveaction adaptation of the manga Ani ni Aisaresugite Komattemasu earned him a breakthrough in his career. Since then he has acted in several Jdramas and movies including Gozen 0ji Kiss Shi ni Kite yo a liveaction adaptation of another manga. In 2019 he did his debut voice acting for the protagonist Minato Hinageshi from the anime movie Kimi to Nami ni Noretara. He also sang the movies theme song Brand New Story as one of the vocalists of GENERATIONS. As of September 2021 he has released two solo singles as a part of shows he starred in. Ryota is the first Japanese male celebrity to be selected by Variety as one of the most promising stars of Asias next generation winning one of the 8 Asian Stars: Up Next awards at Macaos 4th International Film Festival Awards. He also attained the Popular Artist Award at WEIBO Account Festival in Japan 2018 which became a testament of his vast popularity in China alongside his homeland.