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Len ([personal profile] southerncross) wrote in [community profile] ofurotaimu2011-05-20 06:49 pm

Utaite Spotlight: Ryo-kun

りょーくん/Ryo-kun

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Ryo-kun is a fairly new utaite. He just started uploading September of last year but he's slowly gaining a lot of fans. He's very active in uploading and makes it a point to upload 1 or 2 songs every month.

Ryo-kun's voice can be classified in the boy next door type of voice. I'm reminded of Keysuke every time I listen to him. His voice is not too high and not too low. Probably what sets Ryo-kun apart is the distinct gentleness of his voice. He can do a wide variety of songs and he doesn't lose the gentleness of his voice. He can do boyish covers like in Suki Kirai and he can go sexy like in Ee? Aa, Sou. He also shows his rapping skills in the Smiling ✽ Xmas edition ✽ collab. His BlackJack is his most popular cover and it is also the most popular cover of the song. What sets his BlackJack apart from other covers is that he doesn't seem like he's rushing the singing.

Make sure to listen to his twitaudio clips here. You can here him sing in shota voices and female voices. Ryo-kun usually sings in shota and female voices during his lives as well. He sings random songs as well.

Last May 10th, Ryo-kun celebrated his birthday. It was also on this day that I started following his twitter account.

Ryo-kun also mixes but he's still in the learning process so there's some lapses in his mixing. Usually, he has other people mixing for him.

Blackjack (Yucha-P original)
Kakurenbo (buzzG original)
Catfood (doriko original)
Risky Game (KurousaP original)
crack (keeno original)
Shinkaron code:variant -with maro.- (ORYO original)
Suki Kirai -with Meeko- (Honeyworks original)

len says

I first learned of Ryo-kun when we started updating the ofurotaimu tumblr. Because of the tumblr, I got to learn a lot of new utaite and Ryo-kun is one of my best finds. My favorite is his cover of Kakurenbo. However, all of his works are worth a listen. I really have a weak spot for gentle, medium range voices so Ryo-kun really caught my attention. What I noticed with Ryo-kun too is that in collabs, you'll notice him more than his partner.

Since Ryo-kun is young in NND, I can't wait to hear more of his covers. I could really tell that he will still improve.
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