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SPEED's Hiro Advances In Her Career
Date: 9/27/2005
Former j-pop unit SPEED's youngest member, Hiro has been busy recently. Just turning 21 years old, she has tackled various forms of vocal expression including producing jazz tunes, anime themes and even trying her hand as a voice actress. She admits time has flied from her SPEED days. Debuting in 1996, Hiroko Shimabukuro, Eriko Imai, Takako Uehara, and Hitoe Arakaki formed the group, the average age of the girls at the time was 13 years old. SPEED broke up in 1999 at a career high with 20 million record units sold. Her 2004 CD was an all-English jazz album titled Coco d'or. The single "Hikari no naka de" was featured on the soundtrack to the movie Devilman. Currently Hiro has just recorded the main Theme to the TV animation Clover and it's also just been announced she is to record the ending theme to the Blackjack TV series.
Source: Anime News Service