Eve (いぶ), formerly known as Keitora (けいとら) and Kurowa (クロわ), is an utaite known for his very distinctive thin, boyish voice which despite being slightly nasal in tone, is very gentle and nice-flowing. His voice is usually described as being shota-like or "cute", however he can also sing in a more uncharacteristically rough manner, as seen in parts of his cover of "Headphone Actor". He generally sings in a deeper mid-range voice, but tends to shift registers to a slightly higher range when necessary, such as in his cover of "Nakimushi Robot".
He first started uploading covers in April 2009 at the age of 13, however his first cover as "Eve", "TRAGIC BOY" , was uploaded in October 2009. Prior to this, he had gone by two different names, Kurowa and Keitora, before finally settling on his current name. Most of his covers from 2009 have since been either deleted or set to private with few exceptions; somewhat unusually, his mylists divide his uploads by the year they were uploaded.
Though he mostly sings VOCALOID songs from a variety of genres, he is also known to be a fan of indie and folk rock, having covered songs by the bands Galileo Galilei and RADWIMPS. Aside from covering songs, he himself was one of the lead singers for the former Japanese indie band einie, alongside Natsushiro Takaaki. He also composed songs and wrote lyrics for the band.
In addition to vocals, he also plays the acoustic guitar and has accompanied his singing a few times with his own acoustic arrangements. An example of this would be his cover of the RADWIMPS song "37458". He also serves as an extra guitarist on some of einie's songs.
He has participated in several live events since his debut and has also been featured in a remarkable number of the utaite-centric magazines, Utattemita no Hon and 2.5Song MATE.[3]
Eve has also worked as a guest seiyuu in the anime Mecha-Ude. He cameos as a classmate of one of the protagonists, who shares the same design as the protagonist of Eve's "Ano Ko no Secret" music video.
Eve is the creator of the ongoing manga Kara no Kioku, featuring a few characters from his MVs such as Tobi, Noppo, and Hitotsume.
On May 18, 2021, Eve surpassed 3 million subscribers on YouTube.[4] Around a month before that, on April 13, 2021, Eve's music video for Kaikai Kitan had surpassed 100 million views, being the first music video from Eve's channel to hit that milestone.[5] He is now slightly past 4 million as of 2023.
Around the last week of June 2021, his music video for Dramaturgy had surpassed 100 million views, making a live version on July 1 of the same year.
Affiliations and Collaboration Projects[]
- Member of Riot of Color
- Member of the band einie
- einie (Released on October 28, 2012)
- Aru Ichinichi (Released on April 29, 2013)
- Good night Sweet dreams (you) (Released on April 29, 2013)
- Shounen Shoujo no Kotoba (Sohta album) (Released on July 07, 2013)
- Letter #1 (Released on August 09, 2013)
- Kamikyoku wo Utattemita 8 (Released on January 15, 2014)
- atorie (KaiseiP album) (Released on April 26, 2014)
- Riot of color (Released on August 17, 2014)
- oyasumi with Yurin (Released on December 30, 2014)
- Hyakka Kenran (Released on May 05, 2015)
- Souen Aika (Released on August 16, 2015)
- COLORFUL (Released on August 26, 2015)
- Life&Lovers/ChouchouP meets Singers (Released on September 02, 2015)
- PALLETE (Release on May 11, 2016)
Collaboration Units[]
- hanave (花火) with hana
- Everkey with hummerkey
- NatsuEve (なついぶ) with Natsushiro Takaaki
- Yurui (ゆるい) with Yurin
- EveSou (いぶそう) with Sou
Commercially Featured Works[]
- "Ambivalent" - Released on February 6, 2019
- Theme of the short anime Mecha-Ude
- "Yamiyo" - Released on Jun 25, 2019
- 2nd Ending theme to the 2019 adaptation of Dororo
- "Raison d'être" - Released on October 11, 2019
- HAL Vocational School CM song
- "Dramaturgy" - Released on October 17, 2017
- Theme song of the television drama Follow Saretara Owari
- "Yadorigi" - Released on July 7, 2019
- Character theme in the Japanese game #Compass
- "Hakugin" - Released on December 19, 2019
- JR SKISKI 2019-20 campaign song
- "Kokoro Yohou (Heart Forecast)" - Released on January 30, 2020
- Limited Edition Lotte Ghana Pink Strawberry Chocolate campaign song
- "Kaikai Kitan" - Released on October 3, 2020
- First Opening Theme for the animated adaptation of Jujutsu Kaisen
- "Ao no Waltz" - Released on December 23, 2020
- Theme of the animated movie Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi
- "Gunjo Sanka" - Released on September 30, 2021
- Song written for mobile rhythm game Project Sekai's 1st Anniversary
- "Fight Song" - Released on December 28th, 2022
- Ending theme for the anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man
- "Shirayuki" - Released on November 23, 2022
- Theme of the live action adaptation of Black Night Parade
- "Bokurano" - Released on February 24, 2023
- 11th Opening theme of the anime adaptation of Boku no Hero Academia
- "Teenage Blue" - Released on 2024
- Ending theme to the animated adaptation of Ao no Hako
Discography[]
For Riot of Color albums see here
For einie albums see here
Gallery[]
Illust. by
Illust. by Kohinata Hemu (小日向へむ)
Illust. by Fujimaru (藤丸)
Trivia[]
- He is 173 cm tall (approximately 5'8"), and weighs 54 kg (119 lbs).[6]
- He currently lives in Tokyo[3], but has stated that Kobe is the city he'd most like to live in.[7]
- His favorite food is sushi.[8] Particularly shrimp's sushi.[9]
- His favorite animal is fox.[10]
- He often adds the character "◎" to the end of his sentences when tweeting; this has become somewhat of an in-joke/trend among his fans and friends.
- He has a QUAD-CAPTURE interface, a NEUMANN TLM102 mic and a SONAR recorder.[1]
- He has composed original Vocaloid songs using Miku[11]
- He likes to carry candies and cookies in his pocket while going out. He eats them when he's hungry.[12]
- He said the reason as to why he chose his name was because he asked his fans to choose a new name for him. He came across a comment that suggested his name to be "Eve."
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eve's Nico Nico Douga community profile
- ↑ September 04, 2012 Tweet regarding einie members' ages
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eve's Twitter profile
- ↑ Eve's tweet on hitting 3 million subscribers
- ↑ Eve's tweet on Kaikai Kitan hitting 100 million views
- ↑ October 16, 2012 Twitter status
- ↑ December 31, 2012 Twitter status
- ↑ October 15, 2012 Twitter status
- ↑ August 30, 2020 Twitter status
- ↑ August 30, 2020 Twitter status
- ↑ Nonsense Bungaku feat. Hatsune Miku
- ↑ https://youtu.be/Fs5p6ApP1Jc