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2020 was a year of change for many artists, partly due to the influence of the new corona virus. As a full-blown overseas activity, ATSUSHI also signed an album production contract with Bruno Mars and others ‘”1500 or Nothin'” music production team, and was constantly making preparations, but was forced to stop.
I couldn’t act as usual, and I entered my 40s, so I was very aware that my life was finite, and as an artist, as a person, after 40. I have come to think about how I should live in my future life. ” As a singer, I got back to square one and decided to face the music again. “This time, I decided to graduate and focus on my solo activities after breaking the activities of the group that raised everyone, EXILE.” Reported.
“EXILE for me has been everything in my life since I debuted at 21,” says ATSUSHI. “At the end of each year, we have spent the year with EXILE, spring with EXILE, summer with EXILE, fall with EXILE, and winter with EXILE,” he revealed his attachment to the group. Recalling his activities for about 20 years, he said, “I think I’ve been sprinting on a schedule that can be said to be reckless.”
He decided to take on the challenge of a new stage and positioned “40 years as the last time he could take on the challenge as a singer.” “Even if I can stay healthy until I’m 80, even if I can tour every year until I’m 60, can I do it 20 times more? If so, I will not regret it in my future life as a singer and in my life as a singer. ” I want to complete the tour once, “he promised to be more active.
So far, EXILE as a vocal and dance group graduated from EXILE HIRO in 2013, Toshio Matsumoto, EXILE MAKIDAI, and EXILE USA in 2015, but they are still active as EXILE. ATSUSHI will also carry EXILE as a solo artist and as EXILE, and will put more effort into activities not only in Japan but also abroad to express a new form of EXILE.
EXILE, which has changed form and has continued to evolve, is EXILE AKIRA, EXILE TAKAHIRO, Kenchi Tachibana, Keiji Kuroki, EXILE TETSUYA, EXILE NESMITH, EXILE SHOKICHI, EXILE NAOTO, Naoki Kobayashi, Takenori Iwata, Aarashi Seirakiguma, el Merashi Seirakiguma world and Daiki Sato will reboot with a new 14-person system. Determined to inherit the feelings of the graduates, they unite firmly in their hearts to express a new EXILE.
The latest single “SUNSHINE” featuring EXILE ATSUSHI will be released as a CD on December 16, starting at 00:00 hours on the 3rd tomorrow. On the 4th of this month, the fourth original album “40 ~ forty ~” will be released.
■ Full comment from EXILE ATSUSHI
To many fans who always support EXILE
Thank you for your warm support of EXILE. Today I have some important news from me, so I hope you read it.
It has been approximately 20 years since I joined the J Soul Brothers at the age of 21 in 2001 and made my debut as EXILE on September 27, 2001. This year, I am 40 years old and EXILE is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary on next year. ..
Meanwhile, the new corona virus created a social situation the world had never experienced, and it was time to look back on my life. At the same time, I was very aware that my life time is finite and as an artist, as a human being, I think about how I should live in my future life after 40 years. converted.
As a result of seriously thinking about how to live in the future, in 2020, in the milestone year of 40 years, I decided to return to the starting point as a singer and start a new activity to face music, and this time my name EXILE. I decided to graduate and focus on my solo activities after breaking up the activities of the group that brought everything.
Regarding the detailed changes in my heart and feelings on why I decided to make such a decision, I wrote all my thoughts in the book “Signing” to be published on November 12, so here. I would like to omit it.
This time, the form of EXILE will change again when I leave. Change shape and evolve. This is how EXILE has decided, and it is also the fate of EXILE.
From now on, 14 members will play a central role in expressing “EXILE” in EXILE’s performance as a vocal and dance group, but even now, HIRO, MATSU, USA, and MAKIDAI. Mr. is also still EXILE, and each of the 19 EXILES carries EXILE in a different place and in a different way, expressing what EXILE should be. I think this kind of existence is a form of “EXILE” that has never existed in the form of artists until now.
EXILE for me has been everything in my life since I debuted at 21 years old. At the end of each year, we have spent the year with EXILE, spring with EXILE, summer with EXILE, fall with EXILE, and winter with EXILE.
In the last 20 years of activity, I noticed that the group alone has sung around 200 songs, released 11 original albums, done 15 tours, and 115 solo songs there. I think I’ve been sprinting on a schedule that is arguably reckless, with three solo tours.
Everything was possible to overcome thanks to the fans who supported me. I’m still really grateful.
thank you.
Whenever I need it, I would like to cooperate with HIRO and the members to create EXILE songs together, like writing lyrics, composing songs and directing songs, and I will continue to be proud of it. I want to continue living as one of the members of EXILE.
I feel like at 40 is the last time I can challenge myself as a singer to move on to the next stage. How many more tours can be done and how many more songs can be released to the world? Even if I can stay healthy until I’m 80, even if I can tour every year until I’m 60, can I do 20 times as much? If so, I would like to complete 20 tours that I will not regret in my future life as a singer and as a singer.
And he had already signed an album production contract with the “1500 or Nothin ‘” music production team dealing with Bruno Mars, etc. and I was preparing for activities abroad, but the project was stopped once by this new corona virus. .. However, now it is gradually resuming the movement. It’s important to start large-scale overseas activities in the future, absorb and grow while learning various things, and continue to grow, but I feel like this is the only time to fly big. I did.
Seizing the opportunity of a new challenge from the age of 40, I want to take my own life one step further through the dreams that I have had in my heart for many years, my way of life as a person and my activities as an individual. I am sure that little by little you will be able to understand the meaning by looking at my activities like solo musical activities and charity activities in the future.
After 20 years of experience and learning, I began to understand not only as an artist but also a little bit about society, and I learned the mechanism of this world in which I live. So I really believe that this is the beginning of my true life.
I would like to continue singing in the hope that my singing prayer can be of benefit even to one person, so I would be grateful if you could take good care of EXILE and EXILE ATSUSHI in the future.
November 2, 2020
EXILE ATSUSHI
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