Soraru

Soraru (そらる) is an known for his low, breathy voice, with a slight drawl. His voice is usually described as being sultry and -type by fans, and is easily recognizable, with a distinct huskiness to it. He often does collabs with ShounenT, Lon and Komeru, forming the collaboration units SoraT (そらT), Soralon (そらろん), and Lemoc Raros (which is Soraru and Komeru reversed and with alternate romanization), respectively. He is also well-regarded as a sound editor, and often mixes and masters songs for VOCALOID producers as well as other utaite.

While not known for being a technically strong singer, he is very emotive and changes his singing style to most effectively match the song he is covering: ranging from a rougher and more husky approach for rock or higher paced songs to a more soft, gentle approach when covering ballads or slower songs. He is also capable of hitting extremely high notes with little difficulty; for example, his cover of "Last Night, Good Night" sung in the song's original key, and his TmBox cover of "18 Octave Han Dasenai to Utaite ni wa Narimasen".

Initially known mostly for his rapid, prolific upload rate and perhaps more infamously for pitch bending and being a prominent user of autotune, he has more recently become known for his almost meteoric rise to fame despite a long period of relative obscurity compared to his contemporaries. In fact, up until his breakthrough hit cover of "Mozaik Role" in mid-2010, his uploads rarely broke the 10-20K view mark; and were often tagged as being deserving of more views (もっと評価されるべき, ) due to their consistently high quality, with that same "ought to have more attention" label being extended to Soraru himself.

Though in recent years his upload rate has slowed somewhat compared to how it used to be, he has since become one of the more well-known members of the utattemita community, and several of his more recent covers have broken the one million view mark on Nico Nico Douga: his duet cover of "Rimokon" with Lon, as well as his cover of "Kagerou Days". However, his most viewed cover remains the aforementioned "Mozaik Role", which currently has 1.373 million views and 32K mylists. His first cover, an acoustic arrangement of "Suimin Jikan", currently has 27K views and 800 mylists, while his first hit solo cover was "Nisoku Hokou", which currently has 347K views and 9.2K mylists.

He is quite active on Twitter and his friendship with various producers and other utaite like Chomaiyo, Lon and ShounenT can be seen visibly. He is also friends in real life with Remyu, kunkun and Mitea, with whom he attended college. He also holds lives often, with one of his utaite friends commenting or being a part of it, for instance with Lon, especially when they play Minecraft together. He also hosts Soralon Radio (そらろんラジオ) with Lon, an irregularly occuring podcast where the two of them talk about various subjects.

Soraru has covered several songs that are not included in his mylist, due to him only singing certain songs during his live sessions or simply deleting them altogether, but several fans have recorded them and passed these among themselves through social sites like Tumblr.

Collaboration Units

 * 1) sweets☆ with Shamuon, ShounenT and Kony
 * 2) Soralon (そらろん) with Lon
 * 3) Lemoc Raros with Komeru
 * 4) SoraT (そらT) with ShounenT
 * 5) Soratacchi (そらたっち) with Tacchi
 * 6) Monoral (モノラル) with Inakamono
 * 7) Shiso (しそ) with Shamuon

Trivia

 * He participated in the 0.5th Annual Singlink Chorus Competition 2009 (the event was only officially made annual the following year, and this competition was renamed in retrospect) as part of the chorus group B.L.Revolution. They sang "Iroha Uta" as their first entry, and "magnet" in the third place runoff, eventually losing to the Orion Chorus Group. He also participated as a solo artist in the website's 2nd General Utattemita Competition, covering "Anata ni Hana wo, Watashi ni Uta wo" as his audition, and "Cantarella" (the mandatory song for all male entrants) in the second round.
 * He is 176cm (about 5' 9½") tall and weighs 55kg (about 121 lb).
 * He likes to "troll" people on his Twitter, often using it to prank his friends.
 * He likes to claim that he is only 17 years old even though he isn't.
 * His blood type is O.
 * Although many fans asked about his relationship with Lon, he always says that he has never met her in real life before. In SoraLon radio, they often pull jokes about it. On Twitter or in namas, he likes to act as Lon's 'older brother' or sometimes 'father'.
 * When he sings in a feminine voice, like in his "Usotsuki" cover, or edits his voice to sound female, he is referred to as "Soraruko" by fans.
 * He is quite good at the acoustic guitar, and sometimes accompanies his singing in his namahousous.
 * He was born in Miyagi prefecture, and currently lives in Yamagata prefecture.
 * He said that his real name is quite long, containing 7 kanji characters altogether.
 * He does not like spicy food and thinks that people who like spicy food are weird and masochists.
 * He has a younger sister.