Monday Five – 4th Gen. Special!

Finally up and running again, Monday Five is a weekly segment in the Ongaku!Project WordPress where we present five random O!P members with a question. Their answers to that question will be posted here each Monday. It’s a unique chance to get to know the O!P members a bit better! With the recent introduction of a 4th Generation to Ongaku!Project, it’s only natural to focus on these new members for this Monday Five. We simply asked the new members to introduce themselves~

Q: 4th Gen. Special! Please introduce yourself to the WordPress readers

Ariah`: Hey, everyone! My name’s Ariah`, and I’m so glad to have finally been able to be a part of this amazing cover group. I’ve been wanting to audition for ages, and finally got around to it. Singing is a huge part of my life, and I tend to take any chance I can get to show people my voice. It’s not just singing, though. Music, in general, is a huge part of my life. I’ve been singing my entire life, and playing the violin for the past nine years. I played the flute for five years, but I guess I’m not really a wind instrument person. I also cosplay and do some amateur voice acting for fandubs and radioplays. Stuff like that. And I’m also looking at colleges right now, specifically for the Sound Recording Technology major. =D So, that’s a brief summary of me! XD I don’t have a lot of variety, do I?

 

Kacchin: Hello~! こんにちわ~! Bonjour~! Здравствуйте~! My name is Kacchin. My passions in life are language and singing. ^_^ While English is my first language, I speak Japanese and French fluently. I’m also well acquainted with Russian, Spanish, and Chinese. I have been wanting to join O!P ever since I found out about it and I am so happy to finally be able to! Hmm, some other things I enjoy are.. reading, writing, pretty much all creative things, and I -love- eating. Cooking is very fun, but the final product is even better! I hope to have a career as a translator/interpreter and be able to travel around the world later in life. Thank you again to O!P for accepting me as part of the community – I can’t wait to get things going~!

 

Michi: Hello! I’m Michi, 22 going on 23 from San Francisco, California, USA. I’ve loved singing and music ever since I was little, so I’m very happy to be a member of Ongaku! Project. My other hobbies include video games, studying Japanese too much, cosplay, and dabbling in photography. I don’t go anywhere without my PSP and DS, bake a lot of cookies, and wish I could go swimming more often. Is that random enough yet? I’m not sure what a good introduction message would be beyond that. So all I can say is that I can’t wait to see what sort of projects await us as 4th gens, and I hope everyone out there following O!P appreciates our upcoming efforts. Here’s to the future!

 

Anton: My name is Anton, I’m 17 years old and I live in Sweden. I’m “studying” to become a chef at the gymnasium so obviously I enjoy to cook… although I prefer eating. ^^;; I’ve always been interested in Japan and Japanese but it wasn’t until I discovered Hello! Project, about three years ago, that Japan became a huge part of my life. My other interests include singing (of course), dancing and acting. My dream is to one day become famous for something that I have a special talent for. I think that I will learn a lot and have a lot of fun at Ongaku! Project, and hopefully I’ll also improve my singing so that I can become an important part of O!P.

 

Rm88: Hi, I’m Rm88 ^^ I’m very happy to be part of O!P, this is really fun!. I’m 20 years old, and I was born in Mexico City. I don’t really speak Japanese, but I’ve been exposed to Japan and it’s culture since I was a little kid, because I have really close Japanese relatives. Nowadays, 95% of the music I like is in Japanese, with the other 5% being English and Korean. I like videogames, specially platformers and RPGs (Mario and Kirby games are my favorites). I always liked anime music, but I was first introduced to Jpop with Utada Hikaru, who used to be my favorite singer until I really got into H!P. My first H!P favorite group was W, but I’m currently a big Berryz fan. My favorite H!P song is Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba, I even thought of auditioning with that song, but I ended up submitting Jingisukan. I hope to have a really good time here. It’s been great so far, everyone’s been very nice with us, so I’ll do my best. See ya!.

 

Sazaki Ren: Hi everyone! Sazaki Ren here. Um… like I don’t know what to say here, but I’ll try… About two years ago I got interested in Japan. Since then, I started to slowly but steadily gather up bits and pieces of Japanese culture. First off I started to watch anime. Different kinds of it. Then I started to learn Japanese language. And somewhere in between this time – I started singing in Japanese. First – mostly I sang anime openings and endings, then I started to sing some other songs. And then I found out about O!P and was looking forward to the next auditions. And now here I am.
The story of my becoming interested in Hello!Project is pretty interesting, I think, because I found out about it in a strange way. I was looking through my anime pictures folder and I saw a cover of some group named Berryz Koubou(^_~) and that’s where it all started. I found out about this group, I liked their songs, then I started to learn about the Hello!Project itself. Though up to some point I listened only to Berryz Koubou songs. But now I listen practically to all Hello!Project groups.
So that’s my story. I hope you will find it interesting. I’m really looking forward to working with you all!

 

If you have suggestions for future Monday Five questions, send them to twissie@raspberry-style.net