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Dizon held her first live in November, and later performed at [[Kouhaku Uta Gassen]] in December. Her new single, [[Love Paradox]], will be released on the same day that her first overseas live in Taiwan will be staged.  
 
Dizon held her first live in November, and later performed at [[Kouhaku Uta Gassen]] in December. Her new single, [[Love Paradox]], will be released on the same day that her first overseas live in Taiwan will be staged.  
  
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In 2008, Leah Dizon would tearfully announced at her concert that she was going to marry a Japanese hair stylist and was going on a break due to being pregnant. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 24, 2009.
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In 2008, Leah Dizon would tearfully announced at her concert that she was going to marry a Japanese hair stylist and was going on a break due to being pregnant. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 24, 2009. Later in October 2010, she and her husband had separated and in 2011, she filed for a divorce and custody of her kid.
  
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==

Revision as of 08:11, 5 February 2011

Leah Dizon promoting Vanilla (2008)

Leah Dizon (リア・ディゾン) is a Japanese pop singer under the Victor record label, model, gravure idol, and race queen from Las Vegas, Nevada. She successfully debuted in Japan with the release of her first photo book "Petite Amie" that sold over 200,000 copies in 2006. She made her singing debut with her first digital single titled FEVER, a cover of Kylie Minogue's song of the same name, and officially debuted in 2007 with her first single Softly. Dizon's most successful single is Koi Shiyou♪ which she performed at Kouhaku Uta Gassen in 2007, and in 2008 she was recently involved in a scandal over her sudden pregnancy and engagement with a Japanese stylist named "BUN".

Profile

Information

Leah Dizon modeling in "Petite Amie" (2006)
Leah Dizon modeling in "Hello Leah!" (2007)
Leah Dizon modeling in "Pure Leah!" (2008)

Leah Dizon was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and is the fourth child of seven siblings. Her father was a Chinese-Filipino pastor and her mother was a French-American casino director. She has four brothers and one sister, and is extremely close to her brother Brad. When she was at High School, she considered herself a loner and did not have many friends.

She originally wanted to go to University after High School, but could not save up enough money. Instead, she moved to Los Angeles and did various types of work, such as working in a go go bar, posing as a lingerie model, being a race queen and an event companion. She even set up her own website in 2005 (leahdizon.com, now redirected to her official Japanese site), attracting a lot of traffic (especially from Japan). She started to mail Japanese entertainment companies, in hope of making a break there. Her demo tape featured a recording of Amuro Namie's I WILL. In spring 2006 she was signed to Sky Corporation talent agency. When she travelled to Japan in April 2006, she only had $200US with her.

She started writing a blog about her experiences in July 2006, in both Japanese and English. In October she released her first photobook, called Petite Amie, as well as her first musical release: FEVER, a cover of the Kylie Minogue song of the same name. Petite Amie was a smash hit photbook, selling over 200,000 copies and becoming one of the most sold photobooks of the year.

From February 1 2007, Leah Dizon auctioned off some valentine's day chocolates for a charity cause. By the 6th, the cohocolated were selling for ¥900,000, and by the end date of the auction managed to rack up a final bid of ¥8,421,000. On Valentines day, Dizon debuted with her first single, Softly. It was a ballad, however the single's more up-tempo B-side Everything Anything also received a music video. Both were shot when Dizon travelled to Australia in November 2006. The single eventually reached #7 on Oricon charts. Dizon's second single, Koi Shiyou♪, was released in May. It was an upbeat J-Pop-style dance song, and reached #7 on the charts as well (though eventually outsold Softly).

Dizon started to collaborate with famed photographer Leslie Kee, who shot the cover shoot for her third single L·O·V·E U, as well as later on shooting for her HEAVEN photobook and 2008 calendar. L·O·V·E U preceded her debut album, Destiny Line, by only a few weeks, and hence was a lot less successful than her other singles. Her debut album, showing Dizon with a more conservative image, peaked at #9.

Dizon held her first live in November, and later performed at Kouhaku Uta Gassen in December. Her new single, Love Paradox, will be released on the same day that her first overseas live in Taiwan will be staged.

In 2008, Leah Dizon would tearfully announced at her concert that she was going to marry a Japanese hair stylist and was going on a break due to being pregnant. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 24, 2009. Later in October 2010, she and her husband had separated and in 2011, she filed for a divorce and custody of her kid.

Trivia

  • Dizon spoke a little bit of Tagalog when she was a child.
  • Utada Hikaru is a big fan of Dizon and gave her song Kiss & Cry the tentative title "Dancing Leah".
  • Leah Dizon's brother Brad Dizon is the vocalist/ guitarist of a band called "Before You Fall". Videos of him singing can be seen on Youtube, and he also helped Dizon compose her song Again and Again when he visited her in Tokyo in May 2007.
  • Dizon has a pet hamster called "Hamuchan" and a pet cat named "Holden".
  • Being a gravure model to Dizon is a means to and end because she prefers to be a singer.
  • Dizon co-writes her own lyrics, but wants to start composing her own music.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Digital Singles

Soundtracks/ Other

Works

Film

DVD's

Photobooks

Petite Amie Hello Leah! Pure Leah!

  • [2006.10.01] Petite Amie
  • [2007.02.14] Hello Leah! (ハロリア!)
  • [2007.10.05] HEAVEN
  • [2008.03.26] Pure Leah! (ピュアリア!)

External Links

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