Rioka Kanda (神田 莉緒香 ''Kanda Rioka'', born 26 March 1992) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, radio personality, and actress from
Urayasu City in
Chiba Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...
, Japan.
Career
After moving on from
Goose house (former
PlayYou.house) on 31 March 2013, she started her solo musician career. On 26 March 2019, she had a live solo concert at
ZeppDiverCity in Tokyo, which was the largest performance for her at that time. She started her own radio programme "KANDAFUL RADIO" as its radio personality in October 2015. This programme "KANDAFUL RADIO" is broadcast from 0:30 to 0:50 (
JST) by
Nippon Broadcasting System on Mondays. She broadcasts a live online video streaming "KANDAFUL TV" by herself through
TwitCasting
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from around 22:00 (JST) for one hour or so every other Wednesday as well. Sometimes, randomly she plays keyboard and sings on the live streaming of her
Instagram
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story.
She composed songs for TV and radio
commercials
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, and sings them: "Bathclin no Uta (「バスクリンのうた」) : Happy Bath Time" for
BATHCLIN CORPORATION (2018), "Kono Ie de, Isshoni.(「この家で、いっしょに。」)" for
株式会社ジェイウッド (2017), "Haha no Hambun (「母の半分」)" for
MEGMILK SNOW BRAND Co., Ltd. (2017), "Sekai no Nejigeji (「世界のねじゲージ」)" and "Kimi ga Irukara (「きみがいるから」)" for
SOKUHANSHA Co., Ltd. (2016).
She has written her serial articles "Kanda Rioka no Kanjitari, Manandari (「神田莉緒香の感じたり、学んだり」)" in the magazine ''
BARFOUT!'' every other month since June 2017.
Discography
Single
1st "boyfriend?" on 12 April 2013
2nd "Twilight" on 10 July 2013
3rd "SetsuNatsu" on 6 August 2014
4th "Hoshi / Ippai Ippai / Welcome to the music (「星 / いっぱいいっぱい / Welcome to music」)" on 19 August 2015
5th "Ai to Sakebitainda (「愛と叫びたいんだ」)" on 23 August 2017
6th "Meguri (「めぐり」)" on 7 February 2018
7th "Kokokara (「ここから」)" on 15 November 2018
8th "Utakata Circus (「うたかたcircus」)" on 16 May 2020
Album
1st "Wonderful World" on 16 April 2014
2nd "Ohkikute Chihsai Sekai (「大きくて小さい世界」)" on 9 November 2016
Self-Produced Album
1st "I like it." on 26 March 2012
Mini-Album
1st "TOKYO / OSAKA" on 27 March 2015
2nd "ACCELERATOR" on 7 June 2017
3rd "Harinezumi no Shinro (「ハリネズミの針路」)" on 27 June 2018
4th "Shujinko ni Narenakutemo (「主人公になれなくても」)" on 27 March 2019
5th "Haru nishite Kimi ni Utau (「春にして君にうたう」)" on 15 April 2020
1st "Itsudatte Best! (「いつだってベスト！」) " on 23 December 2015
DVD
1st "KANDAFUL WORLD Vol.5 TOKYO / OSAKA TOUR 3.26 TOKYO OFFICIAL DVD" on 9 November 2015
2nd "KANDAFUL WORLD Vol.6 ITSUDATTE BEST! 12.21 TOKYO OFFICIAL DVD" on 13 March 2016
3rd "KANDAFUL WORLD Vol.7 BIG AND SMALL WORLD" on 1 February 2017
4th "KANDAFUL WORLD Vol.8" on 27 March 2018
References
External links
Official website (in Japanese)Instagram (in Japanese)TwitCasting (in Japanese)
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1992 births
Living people
21st-century Japanese actresses
Japanese radio personalities
Japanese women singer-songwriters
Japanese singer-songwriters