Chomaiyo

Chomaiyo (ちょまいよ), formerly known as Dakishimeta Tonight (抱きしめたトゥナイト), is an utaite with a relaxed and lazy sounding voice. His avatar is frequently substituted with that of a dog. He occasionally writes lyrics for other composers, though he mainly sings as an utaite.

Although nowadays he is mostly known as a vocalist, he was one of many former Ustream/Justin.tv haishinsha (配信者, gamers/Let's Players and web radio hosts) who made the transition to Nico Nico Douga, and one of the few among them (along with Lasah and Shochu Umee) who subsequently went on to become utaite.

He remains good friends with fellow Ustreamer and gamer Revin, with whom he co-hosted the web radio show Maximum Service (最大サービス, Saidai Service) from 2009-2010. He is good friends with fellow utaite Baru as well, and they often hold namahousous together. He is also a noted lyricist, having written for producers such as Hachi - most notably for the song Nilgiri, which features Lasah as vocalist.

His first cover was WORLD'S END UMBRELLA, which has since been deleted from Nico Nico Douga. His first hit cover was his cover of Yubikiri, which currently has over 137k views and 4k mylists, and his most popular cover is Yurufuwa Jukai Girl, which has 187k views and 7.3k mylists.

Affiliations and collaboration projects

 * 1) from Internet City (Released on April 06, 2010)
 * 2) Colorful Mic album (Released on December 31, 2011)
 * 3) alpa (Siinamota/PowapowaP's album) (Released on February 05, 2012)
 * 4) Hidamari as guest vocalist (Released on April 28, 2012)
 * 5) EXIT TUNES PRESENTS Kami Kyoku wo Utattemita 6 (Released on August 15, 2012)
 * 6) Girlfriend from Kyoto (Fullkawa Honpo's album) (Released on November 07, 2012)

Trivia

 * He was born in Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture, and currently lives in Nagano.
 * He is of American descent.
 * He has an acoustic guitar named Kuropin (くろぴん).
 * His former name, Dakishimeta Tonight, was derived from the name of one of his radio shows. In turn, Chomaiyo is derived from a corruption of Dakishimeta Tonight, Dapichimeta Chomaiyo (だぴちめたちょまいよ).
 * He is commonly depicted as either a dog or a young man with blond, slightly poofy hair and a rainbow striped scarf. The latter is adapted from his days as a Ustreamer, where he was often depicted as a man with a bright yellow afro, 3-D glasses, a green jumpsuit, freckles, and his trademark rainbow scarf.
 * He likes to write 折れてないマイクで (oretenai mic de, lit. with an unbroken mic) in front of his covers. This is in reference to his first cover, WORLD'S END UMBRELLA, which had 折れたマイクで (oreta mic de, lit. with a broken mic) in front of it.