Roma performed John Lennon's classic "Imagine" at Blue Splash vol 2 @ Club Asia a few days ago. Noss @ Ocono was kind enough to record and upload the song to his blog. Check it out here (scroll down to imeen link). /// I've added two recent-ish 2009 pictures below.
Hey everyone! I scanned the Altar Boyz pamphlet. Click on one of the thumbnails below to view the full booklet.
Altar Boyz Pamphlet
Altar Boyz Pamphlet
Altar Boyz Pamphlet
03.13.09 [UPDATED 03.18.09] 「OPERA DO MARANDORO」
[UPDATED 03.18.09 added a bigger profile picture]
The 「OPERA DO MARANDORO」 website has been updated with a small pic of the official poster. If you squint, you can see Roma in the left corner. Tickets for the musical will go on sale on April 10. I've also added a couple candid pictures that I've found on various blogs.
As you've probably figured out by now, the other English digital singles have unfortunately been canceled :( A video for Addicted was shot but it will probably never be released (It's apparently not 100% done yet).
Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long for new music from Roma.
Roma, Mizrock, Toshinori, and Friedpie had a RENT reunion the other day, check out pictures below (Picture credit: Mizrock's blog). I also came across some Altar Boyz rehearsals pictures that I've added to the OTHER gallery.
Altar Boyz premiered today in Tokyo. Click below to view three pictures from the musical. For more info, visit the official website @ altarboyz.jp
2009 Altar Boyz
2009 Altar Boyz
2009 Altar Boyz
01.13.09 「FINAL RENT PERFORMANCE」
Roma's final performance in the Japanese adaption of the musical RENT was yesterday in Osaka. On stage, he thanked the crew and cast and said they had helped him grow as a person. Click below to view pictures and visit the gallery for more.
I've also added some candid and backstage pictures of Roma and his RENT cast mates to the 'OTHER' gallery. The three on this page are from when Roma and Mizrock accidentally took the wrong train to Tokyo.
Roma's brilliant independently released single, Addicted, is now available to download on all iTunes stores, except the Japan store. The single won't be out for another few months in Japan, but you can still purchase it by using an iTunes card. For more info, click here. Thanks to Noss for the link.
12.15.08 「GALLERY UPDATE & MORE」
Updated all the galleries with various new & old pictures: Shoots (8) - Promotin (14) - Performin' (18) - Other (7).
Many thanks to Mayumi for the RENT pamphlet scan.
回 Roma has been confirmed to star in a musical entitled Ópera do Malandro in July '09. For more info, visit the temporary offical website @ duncan.co.jp.
回 Click Here to visit the official RENT blog to view two clips of Roma talking about the musical and more.
回 Roma and several other celebrites filmed messages for the Red Ribbon campaign, click here to watch Roma's message and more.
11.28.08 「ADDICTED UPDATE 3」
Roma's massive new single, Addicted, is now available to download on amazon.com for only $0.99! Click Here to buy. iTunes links will be up soon. The video and other promo will be available soon. The Japan iTunes release of 'Addicted' will be in a few months.
Click here to watch a digest clip from a special showcase of RENT.
Click here watch a short WOWWOW TV feature and interview on RENT. Thanks to Mermaid @ Ocon (JP Roma fan community) for uploading the clip. Also, thanks to owner of the site for linking tanakaroma.net.
10.24.08 「SEASONS OF LOVE」
The official RENT website was updated with a promotional clip of the cast performing 'Seasons of Love' - check it out below:
Also, Tanaka Roma's team told me that there will be a video for 'Addicted'. It's going to be dance oriented.
10.19.08 「ADDICTED」
Click below to preview Tanaka Roma's massive new tune 「Addicted」 (previously titled 'Unavailable'), the first of three digital singles that will be released independently by Roma in the next few months. /// The release of each single will be separated by about a month. /// The songs are in English. /// 'Addicted' is due to be released early November.
Roma is going to star in the Japanese adaption of the American hit musical "Altar Boyz" in 2009.
Altar Boyz is an Off-Broadway musical comedy about a fictitious Christian boy band from Ohio. It addresses and satirizes, among other things, the phenomenon of boy bands, the popularity of Christian-themed music and products in contemporary American culture.
Profile Pic
Poster
For more info, visit the official website @ altarboyz.jp. Tickets go on sale Nov 1st.
09.16.08 「SCANS」
Scanned some new-ish and old magazines.
2008 Bidan
2008 MTV Paper
2006 HMV Paper
09.11.08 「NEW LAYOUT & DIGITAL SINGLE INFO」
Hey everyone, I hope you like the new layout. I figured it was time for something new seeing as the old layout had been up for quite a while. If the blue headers are almost black on your screen, you might want to adjust the lightening on your screen.
I have some more info on Roma's upcoming independently released 3 track digital single. Each track has a different style. One of the songs is called "Unavailable" - a fast paced song with a bit of an edge. "Shelter Me" is the working title for a slower song with heartfelt music and lyrics. The single is done pro-bono by Roma and his friends as an experiment. It will be available to purchase on all iTunes stores internationally, I believe. So, please support him.
08.27.08 「NEW MUSIC COMING SOON」
Roma is currently working on three new songs that will be released independently via iTunes and other digital music stores. A music video will be shot for one (or 2) of the 3 songs. More info to follow soon : )
Check out an interview with Stephanie and Roma on BIGLOBE broadband TV, click here.
08.18.08 「SAKUSAKU」
Roma and Steph were on SakuSaku to promote their single 「Changin'」 on Aug 11th.
The entire cast of RENT attended today a press conference to promote the musical, which will run between Nov.7 and Dec.8 2008. Visit the Promotin' & Shoots galleries to view more pictures.
RENT Poster
RENT Promo
RENT Promo
07.31.08 「ROMA & ALAN」
Roma and the rising Tibetan star Alan was featured on the TV show Around Japan on June 21st. Check out the clip by clicking on the link below the screen cap image.
The 「Changin'」 music video, which was shot very last minute in Stephanie and Roma's home state, California, finally premiered today, on the day of its CD release. Click to watch the stunning video below the MV screen cap image. But before you watch the video, check out THIS clip from so-net of Stephanie and Roma introducing 「Changin'」. The single debuted @ 35 on the daily Oricon single charts.
Roma was featured in June on TV Tokyo's urban music show Ryuha-R TV, where they followed him behind the scenes at various events and filmed an exclusive acoustic jam session. Watch the show below. Thanks to Yuki.
Roma performed an acoustic version of Toshi Kubota's 80's ballad "Missing" on the radio show Docomo The Session about two weeks ago. Download a radio rip --->>. Credit to q9q9q.
06.20.08 「COLLABO + GALLERY UPDATE」
Roma is going to be on Stephanie's new single, Changin', due to be released on July 23rd. CDJapan desrcribes the single as a beautiful high-tone ballad.Click Here to pre-order.
Check out the RENT poster below (pic credit: K-Plaza). I've updated the Promotin' gallery with radio station pictures from May and June.
RENT Poster
2008 J-Wave
2008 Nack5
06.10.08 「DAYBREAK CHART POSITION」
Tanaka's fantastic mini album, DayBreak, debuted on the Oricon charts at a disspointing #84, selling two thousand copies. There was some sort of distribution problem in the beginning of the week, which may have had some effect on the first week sales. Hopefully the album will do better this week.
If you have yet to buy the album, then click here to order it from HMV Japan. Why not get three copies? 1 for the home, 1 for the car, and 1 for the collection ~ plastic sealed :)
If you have website, blog, myspace, etc... and would like to help to promote the album, then click here to get the code for a cool media player which can be embedded on basically any website.
