Shunichi Miyamoto (
Miyamoto Shunichi) is a Japanese musical artist and
voice actor. He is noted for having performed several songs for the anime adaptation of
D.N.Angel.
Born April 1, 1986 in
Tokyo, Miyamoto started playing the
pianoat the age of four. Later, he enrolled to a vocal school around the
same time he entered high school. He made his singing debut with the
single "
Byakuya ~True Light~", opening theme song for the anime
D.N.Angel. Upon the success of the anime, subsequent promotional
concerts(mainly ones known as "DNAngel Unplugged")were organised, where
he received further notice from the public. He was soon signed up by
JVC music as a solo artist and started to release his own music. His
first
mini-album,
Anges (meaning "angels" in
French) contains many of the songs that were used in said
anime, namely "Michishirube" and live versions of "Byakuya: True Light" and "Caged Bird".
He was cast with the role of
Shani Andras in
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
However, it appears he has not done much voice-acting so far apart from
this role and one or two minor roles in a few other anime including
D.N.Angel.
He has also started his very own internet radio called
Miyasoba,
which runs fortnightly. He covers a variety of things for each episode
such as reading out letters/greetings he has received by post or email;
previews of his new songs or some piano pieces he is still working on,
as well as talking about what's new with his current life and plans.
Miyamoto releases one album at least once a year, his latest CD
'Piano n Piano' was released in August 2007 and charted highly on the
Japanese independent music charts. Miyamoto currently performs at live
jazz, classical and other musical events across Japan (mostly at a
concert hall called Switch - a popular place with many
semi-professional musician, including Hoshino Michiru(AKB48)). 2008 was
a year full of changes for this young and rising musician: Sometime
into 2008, Miyamoto signed to Tri-Arion (part of Alpmusic, which has
been rumoured that it is actually his own music label ) and left Victor
Entertainment - by own will, not taken off by Victor, presumably
because wants to have more control over the type of music he creates.
as a result, he decided to start fresh and changed his stage name to
Shunn. His first single released under this new name is - .
