Dorothy Little Happy

Dorothy Little Happy
Native name ドロシーリトルハッピー
Origin Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Genres Pop
Years active 2010 (2010)–present
Labels Avex TraxBounDEE
Associated acts Satoru Sakamoto
Takao Konishi
Jun Abe
taraco
Website dorothylittlehappy.com
Members Kana Shirato
Mari Takahashi
Ruuna Akimoto
Mimori Tominaga
Koumi Hayasaka
Past members Michiyo Suzuki

Dorothy Little Happy (ドロシーリトルハッピー) is quintet girl group Sendai city resident of Miyagi Prefecture of Japan that are based in the Tohoku region. Or "DLH" abbreviation of the group "Dorothy". Belong to the model talent agency Stepone is headquartered in Sendai city as well, belongs record label avex trax.

History

On July 7, 2010 In Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture of Japan, any number is formed a unit at the school students who belong, Stepone who runs a school for lessons vocal and dance to children, had been showing off the performance on the stage of shopping mall and music venue. 5 people were selected from B-flat is one of those groups, "Dorothy Little Happy" was formed. It is the organization MARI is responsible for sub-vocal main vocal, KANA, MIMORI, RUUNA, is KOUMI basically, center is different from some songs. Slogan is the "body begins to dance if you listen.. Everyone to love you if you look at"[1]

July 7, 2010 - formed . Indie debut with the release of the first single from the BounDEE - August 4, " Jump ! " . November 21 - KOUMI were selected from DLH official Back Dancers has joined. November 25 - hiatus of MICHIYO of the main vocal was announced, it became the top one system to the main vocals from two top MARI system . Released "Sakura ~ Winter flower ~ Winter " the second single - December 1 .

January 10, 2011 - " ! Oremo " " Sayonara demo " is first time in the music venue 's first performance as DLH, call -and-response ! " Yo love " and was born . February 1 - be major debut on March 16 from avex trax was announced . March 11 - Because occurred Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災 Higashi nihon daishinsai), debut event of all is postponed or canceled. March 16 - for from avex trax major debut mini album " demo Sayonara " sale, distribution of CD has been stagnant in the effects of the earthquake, the debut CD in the shop for almost a month in the affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefecture I did not line up is .[2] Resume activities carried out charity live in the courtyard stage of Hillside Shops & Outlet - April 29 . August 27, August 28 - appeared in "Tokyo Idol Festival 2011 " . For such as call -and-response representative music and dance performance at this time in the " demo Sayonara ," " Yo love ! " And " Oremo ! " Became a hot topic, it was noted rapidly from idle fan, in TIF and " found " and found " it becomes present to be expressed as such " was, the playing field is spread across the country . January 11, 2012 - from avex trax mini album, including the first major single " ! HAPPY DAYS ", a remake of the indie era song " Sayonara demo 2012 " was released . July 11 - from avex trax major second single release, " Daylight Saving Fly Away ! " .

Unit name

The namer of the unit is producer's Satoru Sakamoto. Was attached to the hope "as the main character Dorothy in" The Wizard of Oz ", while has a daring and gentle, want to be a child who like also notice a small happiness" and. Band Sakamoto has crossed, the character(guardian angel) of JIGGER'S SON is derived from, this is the time you have owned the bass drum Suzuki Shinya drum charge was written as "DOROTHY LITTLE HAPPY" along with the picture of the character and there was. I can see in the PV of "daily nice" single of them.

Members

Name Birthdate Age Notes
Kana Shirato (白戸 佳奈) January 30, 1994 22 Leader
Mari Takahashi (高橋 麻里) December 15, 1994 21 Lead vocal
Ruuna Akimoto (秋元 瑠海) September 9, 1996 19
Mimori Tominaga (富永 美杜) June 14, 1996 19
Koumi Hayasaka (早坂 香美) May 31, 1996 19

Past members

Name Birthdate Age Notes
Michiyo Suzuki (鈴木 美知代) January 12, 1997 19 Lead vocal

November 25, 2010, It was announced for a reason and to concentrate on schoolwork, and pause the entertainment activities.

Discography

Albums

# Title Release date Oricon peak
position
1 Demo Sayonara (デモサヨナラ) March 16, 2011 -
2 Demo Sayonara2012 (デモサヨナラ2012) January 11, 2012 153
3 Life goes on February 20, 2013 30

Singles

# Title Release date Oricon peak
position
1 "Jump!" (ジャンプ!) August 4, 2010 -
2 "Fuyu no Sakura ~Winter flower~" (冬の桜~Winter flower~) December 1, 2010 -
3 HAPPY DAYS! January 11, 2012 48
4 "Tobidase! summertime" (飛び出せ!サマータイム) July 11, 2012 26
5 "Kazeyo Hayaku" (風よはやく) December 5, 2012 17
6 GET YOU January 9, 2013 11
7 colorful life June 12, 2013 8
8 ASIAN Stone October 16, 2013 7
9 sky traveler July 16, 2014 10
10 Tell me! Tell me! May 20, 2015

DVDs

References

  1. ドロシーリトルハッピー 仙台のプロジェクト100震災復興特別号 "Sendai Keizaikai" (仙台経済界 Sendai Economic world?)
  2. avex network Discography Archived June 16, 2011 at the Wayback Machine

See also

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