Keita Tachibana

Keita Tachibana, is a Japanese musician. He is the lead singer of the J-Pop boy band w-inds. and is also very involved with their dance sequences.

Tachibana got his big break when he was the only male finalist in the 2000 Kyushu-Okinawa Starlight Audition, beating thousands of contestants, but did not win. He joined forces with two dancers from Sapporo, Ryuichi Ogata and Ryohei Chiba, to form w-inds.

In his spare time, he enjoys playing rounds of pool or soccer. Keita is also capable of playing various musical instruments; piano, guitar and bass guitar.

He has an older brother, Yuta, and two younger sisters, Mai and Mio; Mio is currently a model and was part of the group Soran Happies.

Tachibana has now has his own solo career as well as being in a band. His debut single was released on the 18th October 2006, titled "Michishirube,". Although he is a solo artist now, he mentioned that w-inds. is a big part of him. w-inds. will not be disbanding.

His debut solo single, "Michishirube," debuted at #3 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart. His solo album made it to the #5 on the first week on Oricon Weekly Albums Chart; it is also the first ending theme to the anime Reborn!.

His second solo single, "Friend", features the first OP of the anime adaption, Blue Dragon.

He has a blog that won the "Blog of the Year 2006".

In 2007, Tachibana voiced Prince Arthur (Artie) in the Japanese dubbed version of Shrek the Third.

(Source: Wikipedia )