{"id":1073,"date":"2010-04-08T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T07:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/?page_id=1073"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:30:28","slug":"bless4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/artists\/pop-rock\/bless4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1074\" title=\"bless4\" src=\"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010.A.S.2-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"bless4\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010.A.S.2-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2010.A.S.2-1024x718.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bless4.jp\/HOME.html\" target=\"_blank\">Official Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bless4music\" target=\"_blank\">Myspace Page<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>AKASHI<\/strong>\u3001<strong>KANASA<\/strong>\u3001<strong>AKINO<\/strong>\u3001and <strong>AIKI <\/strong>make up the brother and sister group <strong>Bless4<\/strong>. Born of Japanese parents (from Okinawa) and raised in America for a number of years they have a unique connection to both Japan and America culturally and musically.<\/p>\n<p>The four members make up a singing-dance group featuring excellent chorus work and harmonies. Their music is a mix of Pop and R&amp;B and has gradually been gaining interest since their return to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>They were regularly featured on Japan&#8217;s Disney Channel between 2005-2007 as well as Japan&#8217;s largest public broadcasting station NHK on various programming.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 their song &#8220;Stitch is Coming&#8221; is currently featured as the ending theme for the Disney TV cartoon &#8220;Stitch&#8221; (Japanese version). The song will be on the show&#8217;s soundtrack release on April 28th.<\/p>\n<p>Bless4&#8217;s new album is scheduled for release in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bless4.jp\/AKASHI_from_bless4.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u9577\u7537AKASHI<\/a>\u3001<a href=\"http:\/\/bless4.jp\/KANASA_from_bless4.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u9577\u5973KANASA<\/a>\u3001<a href=\"http:\/\/bless4.jp\/AKINO_from_bless4.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u6b21\u5973AKINO<\/a>\u3001<a href=\"http:\/\/bless4.jp\/AIKI_from_bless4.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u6b21\u7537AIKI<\/a>\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab\u3067\u751f\u307e\u308c\u80b2\u3063\u305f\uff14\u4eba\u5144\u59b9.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1075\" title=\"P2\" src=\"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P2-638x1024.png\" alt=\"P2\" width=\"638\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P2-638x1024.png 638w, http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P2-187x300.png 187w, http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P2.png 898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official Page Myspace Page AKASHI\u3001KANASA\u3001AKINO\u3001and AIKI make up the brother and sister group Bless4. Born of Japanese parents (from Okinawa) and raised<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/artists\/pop-rock\/bless4\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1073\/revisions\/1084"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanindies.com\/main\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}