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Jero, the hottest ENKA singer now in Japan!

author Posted by: kirin on date Aug 30th, 2008 | filed Filed under: What's New?

***This post is originally from my previous blog, “Japanese Cuisine Daily Recipes & Something Kawaii From Harajuku?“.

jero Jero, the hottest ENKA singer now in Japan! How can enyone imagine this hip-hop looking guy sings ENKA in Japanese?
His name is Jero. According to his official site, he’s from the U.S and he came to Japan in 2003 to be an Enka singer.

When I fist saw this CD jacket, I had no doubt and thought that he’d be a new hip-hop singer or something that I might wanna check out later.

So I found my eyes wide open when I saw some videos of his singing Enka in Japanese.
Here’s one sample from Youtube. The title of the song is Umiyuki (海雪）.

His grandma is Japanese and wow, his Japanese singing is so awesome and just by listening it, anyone would never believe he’s American…
Actually, Enka is not popular among young people.
That sort of music is mostly supported by elder people over the age of 50 or something.
But Jero may change the world. I can see young people who had never paid any attention to Enka songs now cannot help checking out this black Enka singer. He’s amazing!!

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tag7 Responses to “Jero, the hottest ENKA singer now in Japan!”

  1. credito pessoal Said,
    April 10th, 2011 at 7:09 pm edit

    Ye Jero is awesome, he will defenetly rule the chartsthere, + his mother beeing japanese is amazing how he doesnt look much Japanese though :) … Doesn't really matter if he looks japanese, as it is his music that is kicking hard and a whole generation of youg japanese people is starting to follow :)

    good luck Jero

  2. George McBarnes Said,
    April 11th, 2011 at 1:20 pm edit

    That is truly amazing. I bet his popularity will increase in the coming years – there's a HUGE market in Asia, and they like pretty much all things American :-)

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  3. Jack Stone Said,
    April 20th, 2011 at 9:22 pm edit

    wow. Before that i didn't know his background from where he belong to.I listen his wonderful energetic music which is quite different and unique from others and i believe he will definitely be the star of future.

  4. Maria E. Brown Said,
    April 21st, 2011 at 6:08 am edit

    I agree Jero is really fantastic, his japanese accent is really cool. I do hope his songs will hit the chart. Two thumbs up to this American/japanese boy.

  5. trancoso Said,
    May 24th, 2011 at 10:59 pm edit

    I agree with you, he doesnt look much Japanese though. Amazing!

  6. Robert Sharp Said,
    July 1st, 2011 at 5:26 pm edit

    I have never listened to this music before, I clicked on the link but didn't work. I looked on Youtube and i found some music of his. It was very good! I like it. I hope one day he will do well in the music industry

  7. kirin Said,
    July 2nd, 2011 at 11:45 am edit

    Oh the link is dead, sorry. XD

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