Kirari (singer)
Kirari 希良梨 | |
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Birth name | 豊元 希良梨 (Toyotomo Kirari) |
Born | Okinawa, Japan | October 23, 1980
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Years active | 1997–present |
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Associated acts | There |
Website | http://ameblo.jp/aksgod23/ |
Kirari Toyomoto (豊元 希良梨, Toyomoto Kirari, born October 23, 1980) is a Japanese actress, singer, and songwriter.
Career[]
In 1997 she debuted as an actress in the television drama Gift (ギフト).[1] The next year she played the role of Chisa Noda in the Hideaki Anno film Love & Pop.[2] Kirari wrote "Last Piece" as the end theme for the anime series Great Teacher Onizuka, and she played Nanako in the first live TV version of GTO.[3] Her cover of Martika's Toy Soldiers reached number 18 on the Oricon charts in May 2000.
Shortly afterward she put her career on hold and withdrew from Japanese public life.
Personal life[]
Fifteen years later she revealed that she had been ill with cervical cancer, and after recovery had moved to Taiwan, married her husband, and had a child.[4]
References[]
- ^ "反町「GTO」生徒役・希良梨の現在 引退後の海外生活、結婚・出産…10年ぶり復帰の思いを語る". Modelpress (in Japanese). January 8, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
- ^ Schilling, Mark (1999). Contemporary Japanese Film. Weatherhill. ISBN 9780834804159.
- ^ 希良梨、活動再開後初公の場で笑顔「身も心もリセット」. Oricon News (in Japanese). September 18, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
- ^ "『GTO』生徒役・希良梨、15年ぶり歌手活動再開 闘病・国際結婚経て". Oricon News (in Japanese). June 19, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
External links[]
- Personal blog (in Japanese)
- 1980 births
- Japanese actresses
- Japanese expatriates in Taiwan
- Japanese women pop singers
- Living people
- People from Okinawa Island
- Musicians from Okinawa Prefecture
- People from Okinawa Prefecture
- 21st-century Japanese singers
- 21st-century Japanese women singers