Tono (singer)

Tono (都乃)
Native name 櫻井 都乃（さくらい さとの）
Born October 31
Shizuoka, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Other names
  • SATONO (solo)
  • Tono (PEPESALE)
Occupation
  • Singer
  • Actress
Years active September 24, 2008 - present
Website 都乃/SATONO Official Blog

Tono (都乃, born October 31) is a Japanese actress and singer.Vocal of band "PEPESALE". She is from Shizuoka. Height is 168 cm. She likes fashion. Favorite foods are banana and apple.[1]

Life and career

  • On September 24, 2008, Tono made her debut as a member of chorus unit "M". She was mainly in charge of melody and low part.
  • When she was a member of the girl group "M", 1st single CD was 14th in Oricon chart, 2nd single CD was 20th in Oricon chart, and 3rd single CD was 38th in Oricon chart.
  • On May 1, 2010, she announced to graduate from "M".[2] After that, she started solo career as R&B singer Tono (都乃).[3]
  • On April 1, 2013, she changed solo career name as SATONO.
  • From 2014, she also started career as a vocal of PEPESALE, as Tono (都乃).[4]
  • While actively doing live performance (singing), she is also doing internet live streaming (TwitCasting and SHOWROOM) to widely spread own music all over the world.
  • She served as swing of the Toho musical "RENT" (2015 Japan version).[5]
  • She had tried for musical "RENT" audition on 2012, and as a second trial on 2015, she won the swing.[6]

Personality

  • Her voice has specialty of wide spreading husky voice. Also, handles variety of voices, such as whistle voice which comes from low thick voice.
  • She takes care most of the lyrics of songs for band PEPESALE. As R&B singer SATONO, she is doing songwriting.[4]
  • She favors banana and apple, and always carrying. People around her say that "Who always carry banana and apple is gorilla or Tono".[7]
  • Owns the skill of calligraphy six-stage,[8] and has influenced by the relatives who is doing Japanese flower arrangement, Japanese tea ceremony.[9] She has characteristics of Japanese style woman, such as dressing Japanese "Yukata" by herself.[10]

Works

Theater

Concert (PEPESALE)

  • [CROSS the BANANA MOON ~ Banana Taisa Arawaru ! ~] Release Party (September 19 (Fri) 2014) Shimokitazawa MOSAiC[11]
  • [CROSS the BANANA MOON ~ Banana Taisa to Angou no Chizu ~] One-man live (November 9 (Sun) 2014) Shimokitazawa MOSAiC[11]
  • Sayonara Banana Taisa ! ~ Arigato Bounenkai 2014 ~ (December 27 (Sat) 2014) Nishi Ogikubo w.jaz[11]
  • Kawasaki Street Music Battle ! V Final (March 7 (Sat) 2015) Sanpian Kawasaki[11][12]
  • Oe Banana Taisa wo ! ~ PEPESALE One-man Live ~ (July 11 (Sat) 2015) Takadanobaba CLUB PHASE[11]

Radio

  • PEPESALE no Radio Zettai Ryouiki (Smile FM) January 6, 2015-[13]

Live Streaming

  • PEPESALE no MHKDS Hour (TwitCasting) May 9, 2014 - Every Sunday from 23:00
  • Hissatsu ! PEPESALE Otoshi (SHOWROOM) April 5, 2015 - Every Sunday from 22:00

Discography

Single CD (M)

# Release Date Title
1st September 24, 2008 Sing a song forever
2nd June 3, 2009 Bang ! Bang ! Bang
3rd February 3, 2010 Kirei no Chikara / Tsubasa

* Posted only for the CD when Tono was in the unit[14]

Album CD (PEPESALE)

# Release Date Title
1st February 11, 2014 Stelet Parade[15]
2nd September 19, 2014 Magic Genic[15]
3rd July 11, 2015 Cobalt Sketcher[15]

References

  1. ↑ "都乃 from PEPESALE (@satono_tono) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  2. ↑ "2010年05月01日のブログ｜Mオフィシャルブログ Powered by Ameba". ameblo.jp. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  3. ↑ "SATONO". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  4. 1 2 "SATONO/都乃". ameblo.jp. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  5. 1 2 東宝. "シアタークリエ『RENT』". 「RENT」-OFFICIAL SITE-. Archived from the original on 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  6. ↑ 東宝. "シアタークリエ『RENT』". 「RENT」-OFFICIAL SITE-. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  7. ↑ "『早起きは、、』". SATONO/都乃 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  8. ↑ "都乃 from PEPESALE on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  9. ↑ "都乃 from PEPESALE on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  10. ↑ "PEPESALEペペサーレ on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 "ライブ情報｜PEPESALE（ペペサーレ）公式サイト". PEPESALE（ペペサーレ）公式サイト. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  12. ↑ "『KSMBⅤ ファイナル 結果発表』". Kawasaki Stereet Music Battle!のブログ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  13. ↑ "Smile FM Official website". Archived from the original on 2015-07-12.
  14. ↑ "M officialweb » Discography". m.south-to-north.net. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  15. 1 2 3 "ディスコグラフィ｜PEPESALE（ペペサーレ）公式サイト". PEPESALE（ペペサーレ）公式サイト. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
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