Also, Tanaka Roma's team told me that there will be a video for 'Addicted'. It's going to be dance oriented.
10.19.08 「ADDICTED」
Click below to preview Tanaka Roma's massive new tune 「Addicted」 (previously titled 'Unavailable'), the first of three digital singles that will be released independently by Roma in the next few months. /// The release of each single will be separated by about a month. /// The songs are in English. /// 'Addicted' is due to be released early November.
Roma is going to star in the Japanese adaption of the American hit musical "Altar Boyz" in 2009.
Altar Boyz is an Off-Broadway musical comedy about a fictitious Christian boy band from Ohio. It addresses and satirizes, among other things, the phenomenon of boy bands, the popularity of Christian-themed music and products in contemporary American culture.
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Poster
For more info, visit the official website @ altarboyz.jp. Tickets go on sale Nov 1st.
09.16.08 「SCANS」
Scanned some new-ish and old magazines.
2008 Bidan
2008 MTV Paper
2006 HMV Paper
09.11.08 「NEW LAYOUT & DIGITAL SINGLE INFO」
Hey everyone, I hope you like the new layout. I figured it was time for something new seeing as the old layout had been up for quite a while. If the blue headers are almost black on your screen, you might want to adjust the lightening on your screen.
I have some more info on Roma's upcoming independently released 3 track digital single. Each track has a different style. One of the songs is called "Unavailable" - a fast paced song with a bit of an edge. "Shelter Me" is the working title for a slower song with heartfelt music and lyrics. The single is done pro-bono by Roma and his friends as an experiment. It will be available to purchase on all iTunes stores internationally, I believe. So, please support him.
08.27.08 「NEW MUSIC COMING SOON」
Roma is currently working on three new songs that will be released independently via iTunes and other digital music stores. A music video will be shot for one (or 2) of the 3 songs. More info to follow soon : )
Check out an interview with Stephanie and Roma on BIGLOBE broadband TV, click here.
08.18.08 「SAKUSAKU」
Roma and Steph were on SakuSaku to promote their single 「Changin'」 on Aug 11th.
The entire cast of RENT attended today a press conference to promote the musical, which will run between Nov.7 and Dec.8 2008. Visit the Promotin' & Shoots galleries to view more pictures.
RENT Poster
RENT Promo
RENT Promo
07.31.08 「ROMA & ALAN」
Roma and the rising Tibetan star Alan was featured on the TV show Around Japan on June 21st. Check out the clip by clicking on the link below the screen cap image.
The 「Changin'」 music video, which was shot very last minute in Stephanie and Roma's home state, California, finally premiered today, on the day of its CD release. Click to watch the stunning video below the MV screen cap image. But before you watch the video, check out THIS clip from so-net of Stephanie and Roma introducing 「Changin'」. The single debuted @ 35 on the daily Oricon single charts.
Roma was featured in June on TV Tokyo's urban music show Ryuha-R TV, where they followed him behind the scenes at various events and filmed an exclusive acoustic jam session. Watch the show below. Thanks to Yuki.
Roma performed an acoustic version of Toshi Kubota's 80's ballad "Missing" on the radio show Docomo The Session about two weeks ago. Download a radio rip --->>. Credit to q9q9q.
06.20.08 「COLLABO + GALLERY UPDATE」
Roma is going to be on Stephanie's new single, Changin', due to be released on July 23rd. CDJapan desrcribes the single as a beautiful high-tone ballad.Click Here to pre-order.
Check out the RENT poster below (pic credit: K-Plaza). I've updated the Promotin' gallery with radio station pictures from May and June.
RENT Poster
2008 J-Wave
2008 Nack5
06.10.08 「DAYBREAK CHART POSITION」
Tanaka's fantastic mini album, DayBreak, debuted on the Oricon charts at a disspointing #84, selling two thousand copies. There was some sort of distribution problem in the beginning of the week, which may have had some effect on the first week sales. Hopefully the album will do better this week.
If you have yet to buy the album, then click here to order it from HMV Japan. Why not get three copies? 1 for the home, 1 for the car, and 1 for the collection ~ plastic sealed :)
If you have website, blog, myspace, etc... and would like to help to promote the album, then click here to get the code for a cool media player which can be embedded on basically any website.
