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“ Ikuta Lilas ”

幾田 りら

YOASOBI

By Pakkanan Ananatichat

Content

Preface
Introduction
Biography
Spiritual Belief
Spiritual activities
Reference

Preface

I knew her because of Yoasobi's debut single, "Yoru ni
Kakeru". The song is so catchy. The singer’s voice, Ikura, is
very unique and I like it very much.

Introduction

Yoasobi (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese music duo,
composed of Vocaloid (voice synthesizer software) producer
and songwriter Ayase, and singer-songwriter Lilas Ikuta under
the stage name Ikura. Formed and debuted in 2019 under Sony
Music Entertainment Japan.

Yoasobi's debut single, "Yoru ni Kakeru", became
successful on several music charts in Japan and gave them their
breakthrough with charting atop the Billboard Japan Hot 100
both weekly chart for six nonconsecutive weeks and 2020
year-end chart, and becoming the first song to be certified
diamond for streaming by Recording Industry Association of
Japan (RIAJ).

Biography
Ikuta Lilas (幾田りら) is a Japanese pop
singer-songwriter under Sony Music Entertainment. She is also a
member of the duo YOASOBI under the name ikura.

YOASOBI
(Ikura and Ayase)
She was born in Japan, Ikuta moved to Chicago, Illinois,
United States shortly after and lived there until the age of three.
Due to the influence of her family, she came into contact with
music from an early age and gradually aspired to become a
singer-songwriter. She wrote and composed lyrics for the first
time in the sixth grade of elementary school, and she started her
activities in earnest from the third grade of junior high school.
In January and February 2016, she participated in the
new artist training course "the LESSON" sponsored by Sony

Music as a fourth-year student. She released her 1st demo album
15 no Omoi on August 26th.

In July 2017, Ikuta joined the acoustic session unit
PLUSONICA. In the unit, she was in charge of vocals, guitar,
trumpet, and keyboard.

She appeared on TV Asahi's music variety show Konya,
Tanjou! Ongaku Champ on February 4, 2018. She held a live
concert on April 21st, and released her first mini-album Rerise
only at the live venue. She passed her college entrance exams
from September to October and entered college in April 2019.

On July 2, 2019, the TV commercial of Tokyo Kaijou Nichidou
Anshin Seimei Hoken, in which she covered Sukima Switch's
"Zenryoku Shounen", started airing. In November, she formed
YOASOBI, a unit that "makes novels into music" with Ayase of
Vocaloid-P, and is in charge of vocals under the name of
"ikura". The unit's first single "Yoru ni Kakeru" released the
following month, and its music video recorded a cumulative
total of 100 million views. On November 16th, the one-man live
"bouquet" was held at Harajuku STROBECAFE, and her
second mini-album Jukebox was released only at the live venue.
The music video for Ikuta singing "Love in Color" was released
December 15th on the official YouTube channel of the camera
app SNOW.

YOASOBI「夜に駆ける」 Official Music Video

The nationwide distribution of Jukebox started on
March 11, 2020. She appeared on TV Asahi's Kan Jam Kanzen
Nen SHOW on August 16th. Ikuta was selected to perform the
Japanese version of the end credit song "Rocket to the Moon
~Shinjita Sekai e~" for the Netflix film Over the Moon directed
by Glen Keane. She delivered a limited one-man recording
LIVE at the "Online Wakasugi Matsuri" of Nippon Kougyou
Daigaku on November 14th. She made her first appearance at
the end of the year program NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen as a
member of YOASOBI on December 31st.

Ikuta's song "Romance no Yakusoku" was used as the
theme of the 2021 reality program Kyou, Suki ni Narimashita.
Himawari-hen. On August 13, 2021, she graduated from
PLUSONICA, which she belonged to for four and a half years.

Spiritual Belief
“I've been fascinated with music since childhood. I can sing
continuously for 24 hours without exhaustion. because my
dream is to be a singer. It made me compete in every stage and
attend all kinds of auditions. I think I will regret it for the rest of

my life. If I didn't do it.”

- Ikuta Lilas -

Spiritual activities

YOASOBI
(Ikura and Ayase)

Reference

https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/Ikuta_Lilas
https://www.generasia.com/wiki/Ikuta_Lilas

https://www.daco-thai.com/yoasobi/