James McAvoy

James McAvoy  born 21 April 1979 is a Scottish actor. He made his acting debut as a teen in The Near Room (1995) and made mostly television appearances until 2003, when his feature film career began. His notable television work includes the thriller State of Play and the science fiction miniseries Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune. He has performed in

Ai Takahashi

Ai Takahashi Takahashi Ai (born September 14, 1986) is a Japanese pop singer and actress who is formerly associated with the Hello! Project and is best known as the leader of Morning Musume and Hello! Project until 2011. She is also a former member of its popular subgroup Mini Moni. Contents   1Biography 1.1Morning Musume Career (2001–2011) 1.2Post Morning Musume (2011–present) 2Personal life

Ai Otsuka

Ai Otsuka Ōtsuka Ai, born September 9, 1982 is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Suminoe-ku, Osaka, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit “Sakuranbo”, which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart for 103 weeks. A piano player since age four, Otsuka composes and co-produces her own

Yoshiki (musician)

Yoshiki Hayashi Hepburn: Hayashi Yoshiki, born November 20, 1965 known by the mononym Yoshiki, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is best known as the leader and a co-founder of the visual kei rock band X Japan, for which he is the drummer, pianist and main songwriter. Described by Billboard as a “musical innovator” and named “one of the most

Hideki Saijo

Hideki Saijō Saijō Hideki, originally Tatsuo Kimoto , Kimoto Tatsuo; April 13, 1955 – May 16, 2018) was a Japanese singer and television celebrity most famous for singing the Japanese version of the Village People’s hit song “Y.M.C.A.”, called “Young Man”. In the 1970s, he was called “New Big Three” (新御三家, shin gosanke) with Goro Noguchi and Hiromi Go. Although the original version was camp, Saijō’s

Miyavi

Takamasa Ishihara shihara Takamasa, born September 14, 1981, better known by his stage name Miyavi (stylized as MIYAVI), is a Japanese guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor known for his finger-slapping style of playing a guitar. He has been active since 1999, first as guitarist for the now defunct visual kei rock band Dué le quartz and then as a solo artist starting in 2002. In

Hyde (musician)

Hideto Takarai Takarai Hideto, born January 29, 1969 in Wakayama, Japan, known by his stage name Hyde, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band L’Arc-en-Ciel since 1991, he is also the lead vocalist of Vamps and has a solo career. Hyde rose to fame in the 1990s as part of L’Arc-en-Ciel, who have

Hide (musician)

Hideto Matsumoto Hepburn: Matsumoto Hideto, December 13, 1964 – May 2, 1998, better known by his stage name hide (Japanese pronunciation: ), was a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He was the lead guitarist of the rock band X Japan from 1987 onward, and a solo artist from 1993 onward. He also formed the United States-based rock supergroup Zilch in 1996. Hide sold

Gackt

Gakuto Oshiro Ōshiro Gakuto, born July 4, 1973, better known by his mononymous stage name Gackt (stylized as GACKT), is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. Born in Okinawa, Japan, to a Ryukyuan family, Gackt learned the piano at a young age and was raised on classical music and enka before becoming interested in rock music while attending high school. He has been active since 1993, first as the

Emma Stone

Emily Jean “Emma” Stone born November 6, 1988 is an American actress. The recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, she was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2017. Stone appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2013 and in 2017, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.