Utaite Spotlight: ZERO

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ZERO

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You might know ZERO as the other half of that notorious magnet with tane. He is not new to the utattemita community, having started uploading his covers as early as DEcember 2008. He also has done collabs with a lot of people apart from tane, like Airi and Yuu.

ZERO has a higher and more boyish voice than Tane. He has a good range, enabling him to reach high notes despite the slight roughness of his voice. He might sound shaky at some parts of his covers, especially the fast-paced ones, but it adds to the natural feel of the covers. He covers songs in a straighforward, unadulterated way (when not with Tane) but he is still labeled in some songs as (z)ero. If you like Turbo's or H+ero's voices or ikemenish voices (as the tags say), you'll probably appreciate ZERO's singing. Sadly, he doesn't do sheep-counting tracks XD.

sample covers
solos:
• Hajimete no Koi ga Owaru Toki (ryo original)
• Starduster (Jimmythumb original)
• Calc. (Jimmythumb original)
• COLOR (TokuP original)
• Itsumo Yori Nakimushi na Sora (Rerulili original)

collabs:
• Cendrillon (w/ MISAKI, Dios original)
• Perfect Crime (w/ *Airi, samfree original)
• Aquarium (w/ Yuu, kihee original)
• Bokura no 16-bit Sensou (w/ Tane, Sasakure.UK original)



nikki says
I first knew ZERO from his and Tane's brain-breaking magnet cover. As usual, LOL. Then I found him again when I was searching for people who have covered Dark to Light, which is one of my favorite Jimmythumb works. He has this...pure-hearted way of singing (when not singing with Tane), almost the same as early ShounenT and Turbo styles. I'm sad that he's not as popular as Tane even though he covers songs very well.

Comments

[crimsonfire3]

"You might know ZERO as the other half of that notorious magnet with tane."
- Ahaha! Good perception, Nikki XD That's the reason how I knew zero too orz

Ah, I didn't know he had a collab with Yuu OTL fail me.
8DD; his Calc. sounds nice *_*

(z)ero huh |D

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It's a different Yuu, btw, since that name uses katakana, not the YU or Yuu with Hiragana/Kanji :3

[rmarques.livejournal.com]

I have such a love/hate relationship with this guy's voice. :|a But his Starduster is still one of my favourite male covers of it.

[fascinates]

Is it because sometimes he sometimes sound like he's doing a half-assed job in singing? ^^;. Some of his covers sound a bit like that XD. But I agree about Starduster *_*

[rmarques.livejournal.com]

Haha, I always saw it as him picking songs his voice isn't strong enough to carry, but yeah. ^^; I've found that I tend like him better when he's singing slower songs, like Starduster, Itsumo Yori Naki(ry and Little Traveller.