One Ok Rock Biography
ONE OK ROCK is a Japanese Rock band under the AMUSE label. In summer 2005, Toru with High School friends Alex and Ryota started the band in Japan. It started after each of them got their musical instruments. After that TAKA (森内貴寛) joined and they focused on performing lives in the Tokyo area. In 2006 they independently released 2 mini albums. Because their albums sales, their participation at festivals that summer and their energetic lives in the outskirts of Tokyo, were noticed by a foreign record company. At their first One-Man Live done at LOFT in Shinjuku 500 people attended. In March 2007 Tomoya officially joined the group and the 5 person group made their major debut by releasing their first single 内秘心書(Naihi Shinsho) on April 25th. The group came up with the name ONE OK ROCK because they would book studio time at One o'clock. The Japanese pronunciation of ONE OK ROCK is uwanokurokku which sounds like One o'clock . On April 5th, 2009, Alex was arrested for groping a female prep school student. They were going to release the single 「Around ザ world 少年」on May 6th but was cancelled. The song was also going to be used for the drama 'God Hand Teru' but was replaced. Also, a nationwide tour was cancelled because of the incident. On May 15th, it was announced the Alex has left the group and the other 4 members would continue activites in the summer. Members * Taka (森内 寛貴, Moriuchi Takahiro, born April 17, 1988 in Tokyo) - Vocals. Former NEWS member. * Toru (山下 亨, Yamashita Tōru, born December 7, 1988 in Osaka) - guitar and some vocals. Former member of the hip-hop dance group, Heads. * Ryota (小浜 良太, Kohama Ryōta, born September 4, 1989 in Osaka) - bass. Former member of hip-hop dance group, Heads. * Tomoya (神吉 智也, Kanki Tomoya, born June 27, 1987 in Hyogo) - drums. Former members * Alex (鬼澤アレクサンダ, Alexander Onizawa, born March 19, 1988 in San Francisco) - guitar. Officially left band as of May 2009. Releases *「One Ok Rock」 1st Mini Album (2006/7/26) *「Keep It Real」 2nd Mini Album (2006/12/16) *「内秘心書」 1st Single (2007/4/25) *「努努-ゆめゆめ-」 2nd Single (2007/7/25) *「エトセトラ」 3rd Single (2007/10/24) *「ゼイタクビョウ」 1st full-length album (2007/11/21) *「世の中シュレッダー」 1st live DVD (2008/3/19) *「BEAM OF LIGHT」 2nd full-length album (2008/5/28) *「感情エフェクト」 3rd full-length album (2008/11/12) *「完全感覚Dreamer」4th Single (2010/02/03) *「Nicheシンドローム」4th full-length album (2010/06/09) *「アンサイズニア」 5th Single (2011/02/16) *「THIS IS MY BUDOKAN?! 2010.11.28」2nd Live DVD (2011/02/16)
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