Lady Bird (duo)
Lady Bird (stylized as LADY BiRD) are a dance music production crew from Japan, consisting of two men, DJ Ten (born February 14, 1980), a disc jockey from Hokkaido, and Kazuhisa Hirota (born December 28, 1979), a music producer from Fukuoka.[1]
Lady Bird officially launched in 2007 with two members, DJ Ten, a resident DJ at Club Atom, a disco located in Shibuya, Tokyo, and Kazuhisa Hirota. They released its first album Ten Colors : Interior House in December of that year.[2] Lady Bird then released its first single "Sweet Song" in February 2009 after auditioning many female vocalists and finally choosing fashion model Wei Son.[3] "Sweet Song" appeared on the Oricon singles chart 3 times, peaking at #47.[4]
After releasing two singles "Kitto... Sayonara" and "Tokyo ha Yoru no 7-ji", they released its first full-album STYLiST in August 2010.[2] STYLiST contained several cover songs such as ones by Pizzicato Five and ABBA ("Dancing Queen"), featuring six singers, Yula, Aya Ichinose, Sarah, Liz, Seira Kagami, and Wei Son.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lady Bird", Oricon (in Japanese)
- ^ a b History of Lady Bird, Oricon (in Japanese)
- ^ "That Mysterious Popular Singer Was In Fact, 'Wei Son'", December 26, 2008, Barks (in Japanese)
- ^ "Sweet Song", Oricon (in Japanese)
- ^ "Lady Bird's first full-album!", July 15, 2010, HMV News (in Japanese)