Paul T. Scheuring, Matt Olmstead, Kevin Hooks, Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse,

Neal Moritz and Brett Ratner are executive producers.

Zack Estrin and Nick Santora are co-executive producers.

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Beautiful Model girl(Leah Dizon)

With her debut single, Leah Dizon was launched as a household name in Japan. She is a frequent guest in several variety shows and is featured on magazines. This encouraged her record label to provide Dizon a busy schedule. In fact, Leah Dizon didn’t take long to start polishing her vocal and dancing skills to release her second single. This single was described as a “a grooving, up tempo dance song” and became a moderate success to hit off spring 2007.

 Leah on Oricon

This single attracted even more media attention than the previous one. Oricon and Mainichi-interactive, both conducted an interview and a photoshoot. Leah was also invited to the most prestigious variety shows. Her notoriety and exotic looks led her to be photographed by the international talent, Leslie Kee for a magazine, Weekly Playboy. Yet again this single has fared rather well on the Oricon charts and with J-Pop fans. On the first week alone, it ranked at #7 and sold 22,597 copies. To date it has been recorded that it has sold 41,769 copies overall.

This single is yet again available in two formats: a regular edition with a folded mini-poster and a limited CD+DVD edition. The latter contains a music video and making-of footage in the bonus DVD. The cover art is focused on Leah’s face, where the emphasis is on the eyes. One will notice the focus on soft colours and vintage-inspired themes, which reflect the season of spring. Finally Nakata Yasutaka has remixed “Koi Shiyou♪” in his “yasutaka nakata-capsule mix”. Currently it is being broadcasted on Japanese radio stations. Unfortunately for us foreign fans it is not available for purchase in CD or analog format. Recochoku currently has it on sale as a ringtone.

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promo picture for the single “Softly”

Artist: Leah Dizon Product Code: VICL-36202/VIZL-216 Release Date: 2007.02.14 Highest Rank: #5 First Press: CD+DVD Label: Victor Entertainment

It has been almost six months since the ex-gravure model Erika Sawajiri released her debut single, Taiyou no Uta. This single proved to be a huge hit, which led to the Japanese audience to take her more seriously despite of her bad reputation in the past. Her success led her to get tie-ins with the Meji, Kanebo and Sony Ericsson, for their new SE W51S cell phone product. Her success probably led to encourage another model, Leah Dizon to try her luck in the music industry too.

Leah Dizon is no newcomer to the entertainment industry. Apart from being a singer, Leah is a Japanese tarento and a model, a race queen and a gravure model to be more specific. However Leah is not Japanese. Her ethnicities include Chinese, Filipino and French. She was born in Las Vegas, where she spent most of her childhood. Leah attempted to start a modeling career as an import model in the states, but this did not fare so well.

Thus Leah attempted a different approach. Her modeling career took a sexier direction and Leah became a gravure model. Her photoshoots became more provocative and this approach managed to create a stable fanbase in Asia and USA. It is needless to say that most of her fans were males. Her fans encouraged Leah to start a musical career and she sent a demo tape to Victor Entertainment who was happy to sign a contract with Leah. She moved to Tokyo and released her first photobook in 2006 and a 2007 calendar. In the beginning of 2007 it was announced that her first single would be released.

Leah hasn’t changed much from her gravure days. She is featured in her single covers hugging a huge teddy bear and wearing close to nothing. Despite of the obvious “Buy me I’m hot” message, I have to admit Leah looks gorgeous. However Victor Entertainment was smart enough to promote a more female-friendly image, apart from her sexy image. This trend is similar to Koda Kumi’s dual image marketing scheme by avex. In most of her videos Kumi is sexy, aggressive and wild, but on other videos and magazine photoshoots, Kumi looks like a cute and innocent Barbie doll. Leah Dizon follows this trend, where in her promotional clip and photoshoots she looks demure and cute as a button, to the extent that you find it unbelievable that this girl is actually race queen and some photos of her are quite provocative.

The single came in two formats; a regular edition with a poster and a limited CD+DVD edition. Both had the same image, one of them being simply a cropped version of the other. Also the third track of both versions was different from each other. This single recieved a lot of attention by the Japanese media simply because Leah is a foreigner and everyone knows how the Japanese are fascinated by foreigners. However I doubt many knew that Leah has as much musical talent as Paris Hilton and has had little musical training. Despite the fact that Leah isn’t exactly fluent in Japanese, she still attended various television programs. Leah attended an HMV shopping outlet to promote her single.

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One of those “catch some stuff and avoid the other stuff” games

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Go ahead, live out your wildest fantasy. We hope it’s just a fantasy, anyway…

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