Tomohisa Yamashita
Tomohisa Yamashita (Japanese山下 智 久, Yamashita Tomohisa, born April 9, 1985 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan) from fans often YamaP (山 ピーor山P) called, is a Japanese singer and actor. He stands at the Johnny & Associates under contract and is a solo singer as well as member of the group NEWS.
Biography
Tomohisa Yamashita gave in an interview that he decided to try to audition for Johnny's because he wanted to play in drama. Encouraged, he was to when he Hideaki Takizawa ( Tackey & Tsubasa now on ), the very young had his first television appearances, saw on TV. Tomohisa increased in 1996 with 11 years under the name Tomohisa Yamashita at Johnny's one. This is not his birth name.
In his Johnny's Junior time, so before he officially debuted with NEWS, he was a member of the groups BIG and Four Tops. The latter consisted of him and Toma Ikuta Jun Hasegawa and Shunsuke Kazama. With them he began in 2002, the Johnny's Junior telecast Shōnen Club to moderate.
As soon as he entered Johnny 's, he also took his acting career in attack. In 2000 he played in the drama Ikebukuro West Gate Park. In the same year he was elected for the first time at the beautiful Annual Junior Awards Johnny's as the Best Boyfriend and must.
In September 2003, next to him eight other members of the Junior's been chosen to mark the Volleyball World Cup in 2003, to form a group and sing the theme song for the World Cup. Four Tops were consequently disbanded. At first only planned for a month, NEWS were so successful that the group remained. Since their official debut on 12 May 2004, have done as a band NewS KAT -TUN and next to the Kinki Kids to maneuver all of their singles in the first place on the Oricon charts.
In October 2005, Yamashita and Kamenashi Kazuya KAT- TUN formed on the occasion of doramas Nobuta. o Produce, in which they both played, the group Shuji to Akira (修二と彰). In this formation they brought the successful single Seishun Amigo out (青春 アミーゴ), which was sold in 4 weeks over 1 million times. This single was the best-selling disc in the Oricon Yearly Single Rankings in 2005.
NEWS was suspended for some time, because two underage members had been drinking alcohol. Members who have not been involved, were allowed to take their own activities. 2006 Yamashita was given the lead role in the drama adaptation of the manga Kurosagi. As the theme song for this drama, he published as a solo singer under his own name the single Daite Señorita, which also topped the Oricon charts.
In the fall of 2006, the group Kitty GYM was established, consisting of Golf, Mike, Yamashita and the Junior's Kitayama Hiromitsu (Kiss -my- ft2 ), Kei Inō ( JJExpress ), Totsuka Shota (ABC) and Yaotome Hikaru (Ya -Ya - Yah ) existed. They should support the Japanese Volleyball Women's Team and published as a GYM in August, the single Fever to Future.
On the occasion of the reunion of NEWS Yamashita returned as a member. She first appeared they had on 31 December 2006 at the New Year's Eve gig Johnny 's Countdown 2006-2007.
2007 Yamashita built his acting career continued with leading roles in the drama alongside KAT- TUN Byakkotai Koki Tanaka and Taisuke Fujigaya of Kiss -my- ft2 and Proposal Daisakusen. In early 2008 came the film for the drama Kurosagi with Yamashita in Japanese theaters.
Discography
- See NEWS
Studio albums
- 2011: Super Good, Superbad
- 2012: Ero (エロ)
- 2013: A Nude
Singles
- 2006: Daite Señorita (抱い て セニヨリータ)
- 2009: Loveless
- 2010: One in a Million
- 2011: Hadakanbo (はだかんぼー)
- 2012: I, Texas (爱,テキサス)
- 2012: Love Chase
- 2013: Ke Sera Sera (怪· ·セラセラ)
- 2013: Summer Nude '13