Uta no Oniisan Press Conference - Sports Hochi's report

Arashi's Ohno Satoshi stars in "Uta no Oniisan" as Yano Kenta and will be making his solo debut under this name. His solo single, "Kumorinochi Kaisei" will be released on 4 March. Ohno expressed his surprise at being able to release a solo CD and said that he tried very hard to reflect the cheerful atmosphere displayed in this song. He mentioned that this song is very suitable for the drama and he was smiling all the time when he was recording the song.

Although Ohno had sung solo in Arashi's albums before, this is the first time that he is releasing a solo song in the form of a single. His fellow members expressed their earnest wishes to hear the song as soon as possible so Ohno felt that they contributed to the production of the single in one way or another. Arashi will also be releasing their new single "Believe" on the same day.

Johnny's artistes who had released singles under their character names included Kokubun Taichi and Domoto Tsuyoshi who formed the unit "Toraji Haiji" in Jan 2005 as well as Kamenashi Kazuya and Yamashita Tomohisa who formed the unit "Shuuji to Akira" in Nov 2005. Both singles grabbed the Oricon No.1 single title at that time thus Ohno feels a certain amount of pressure for him to do well. He added that if he did not enter showbiz, he might just be like Yano Kenta in the drama who is living aimlessly.

Source: Sports Hochi