Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - Beeny & Pink Bunny Info

Well her official homepage is dead so I've taken it upon myself to... well, use the Wayback machine to retrieve all the info that was on it. ^^;;

PROFILE:

Name: Mochizuki Erika
Birthplace: Yokohama
Birthday: 11th August
Blood Type: B
Height: 167 cm
Weight: 47 kg
Shoe Size (why they put this, I do not know): 23.5

To call Erika Mochizuki, the main performer, "Beeny & Pink Bunny", would be incorrect. B&PB are a team, and all the teammates try to compromise and make each other happy with the music.

When writing Beeny & Pink Bunny, the word pink is supposed to be pink, and when abbreviating it B&PB, the P should be pink.

The name Beeny & Pink Bunny...
"Beeny" was Mochizuki's imaginary hero when she was a child, Pink is a powerful feminine color, and Bunny means Bunny Girl.

Mochizuki is just the Vocal...
When "Kiss!" hit #1 on Oricon, Erika (the vocal and personality) was given the choice to scrap her team since she's all who was important image-wise. She did not, the team were all her friends. The team all work together very naturally, and though Erika is the one everyone knows, she is only part of a bigger group.

HISTORY:

1999 - Met Kazuhiro Hara while starring in RENT, starts making demos with him.
2000 - Plays live shows in March while trying to promote with demos.
2001 - Live sets move to clubs, instead of just small live houses
2002 - RENT Gala concert in January. June 10th, Erika starts a Radio Show in Osaka, "Mochizuki Erika MUSIC MADONNA", 7:30pm - 8:00pm every sunday.
2003 - Starting in June, her song "Kiss!" is the Hey x 3 ending theme. The single is released in July, and between that time and the end of August she appears in 16 magazines, on 4 radio shows, 3 music programs, and in the Sponichi newspaper. In august, the ID:404 single is released. Throughout the last half of the year, B&PB plays in various dance clubs and concert halls.
2004 - Plays three shows in Roppongi clubs until her management drops her in April for unknown reasons.

DISCOGRAPHY:

Kiss!
SRCL-5575
Released 2003.7.16
1,223 yen (tax in)
1. Kiss!
2. NEGAI
3. Kiss!-instrumental-
4. NEGAI- instrumental-

Kiss!　
Words:Erika Mochizuki
Music:Kazuhiro Hara
Sound Produced by HAL
HAL are Toshiharu Umesaki, Takehito Shimizu, Yuta Nakano
Engineered by Toshiro Kai
Mixed by Naoki Yamada at ROJAM STUDIO #A

NEGAI　
Words:Erika Mochizuki
Music:Kazuhiro Hara
Sound Produced by B&PB
Guitar:Takashi Masuzaki
Engineered by Ryuzo Suzuki and Tsutomu Morishita
Mixed by Naoki Yamada at Sound Inn #F

Produced by Kazuhiro Hara/SCOOP Music
Mastered by Koji Suzuki at Sony Music Studios Tokyo,Mastering Room #1

Artist Produce,Management and Bookings:Shigeru Nakata/Ever Green Entertainment
Directed by s719
Production Supervisers:Kaoru Ishikawa and Morihiko Aoyagi/SCOOP Music
Production Service:Kumico Watanabe
Executive A&R:Osamu Nakamura
Executive Producers:Shinji Takagi,Sumihisa Nishi and Shunsuke Muramatsu
Supervisers:Shigeo Kasai,Hruyoshi Oshiro and Junichi Watanabe/Burning Production
Executive Superviser:Norio Higuchi/Burning Publishers

Art Director&Designer:Kitetsu Takamiya/67531graphics
Art Work Cordinater:Yoko Tanaka
Photographer:Toru Koike
Hair&Make-up:Ryoji Morikawa
Stylist:Seiko Shikibe

ID:404-LAST PLANET-
SRCL-5595
Released 2003.8.27
1,223 yen (tax in)
1. ID:404-LAST PLANET-
2. Kiss!-reinterpretation:TRANCE RMX-
3. Kiss!-reinterpretation:TRANCE DUB RMX-
4. ID:404-LAST PLANET-(instrumental)

ID:404-LAST PLANET
Words:Erika Mochizuki
Music:Kazuhiro Hara
Sound Produced by B&PB
Basic Arrange:Kazuhiro Hara
1st Arrange:Erika Mochizuki
2nd Arrrange:Shohei Matsumoto
3rd Arrange:Kiyohito Komatsu
4th Arrange:Shohei Matsumoto
Final Arrange:Kazuhiro Hara
Vocal & Background Vocal:Erika Mochizuki
Guiter:Akio Shimizu/ANTHEM
Engineered by Suguru Aoki
Mixed by Naoki Yamada
Assistant engineer:Naoki Kakuta
Mixed at ROJAM JAPAN #A

Kiss!-reinterpretation:TRANCE RMX-
Kiss!-reinterpretation:TRANCE DUB RMX-
Words:Erika Mochizuki
Music:Kazuhiro Hara
Sound Produced by HEAVENS WiRE vs.ZODIAC FORCE

Performed by ERIKA MOCHIZUKI
Produced by KAZUHIRO HARA/SCOOP Music
Mastered by KOJI SUZUKI at Sony Music Studios Tokyo, Mastering Room #1
Artist Produce, Management and Bookings:SHIGERU NAKADA/Ever Green Entertainment
Directed by s719
Production Supervisers:Kaoru Ishikawa and Morihiko Aoyagi/SCOOP Music
Production Service:Kumico Watanabe
Executive A&R:Osamu Nakamura/Sony Records
Promotion in Chief:Yoshio Konno/Sony Music Records
Executive Producers:Shinji Takagi,Sumihisa Nishi and Shunsuke Muramatsu/Sony Music Records
Superviors:Shigeo Kasai,Haruyoshi Oshiro and Junichi Watanabe/Burning Production
Executive Supervior:Norio Higuchi/Burning Publishers
Art Director & Design:Kitetsu Takamiya/67531 graphics
Art Work Cordinater:Yoko Tanaka/67531 graphics
Photographer:Toru Koike
Hair & Make-up:George Morikawa/MASA
Stylist:Mariko Miyoshi/CORAZON

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For anyone who cares, this is the message I left for Erika at her BBS in January '04, and her reply (both are in japanese, you'll need to change your encoding to read my awful japanese XD). I was so excited about this. :)

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アメリカからはじめましてって!
-デリリアム-零

はじめまして!私はアメリカ人です。B&PBがとても大好きわね!エリカさんはアメリカ人のファンがたくさんありますか。とにかくに、エリカさんの音楽がすごいです。You're so cool!! でも「Kiss!」のPVはこわいんだね。ふふふ。。。

私の日本語がよくありません。ごめんね ^_^;;

America loves BEENY & PINK BUNNY!!!
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デリリアムー零さん
-B&PB

HAI!デリ!ハジメマシテネ!ワタシアマリイングリッシュウマクナイデスケドヨロシクﾈ!ｱﾒﾘｶｼﾞﾝｻﾝﾉﾌｧﾝﾀｸｻﾝﾎｼｲﾏｽﾈ★ｵﾄﾓﾀﾞﾁﾊﾒﾆｰﾒﾆｰｲﾙｱﾘﾏｽﾈ!ｱﾒﾘｶｽｷｱﾙｶﾗB& PBアメリカニヨンデホシクオモイマスネ!ワタシノイングリッシュアマリヨクナイネ。ベンキョウシマスB& PB LOVES AMERICA
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There weren't many pictures archived (and they were all small) so I'll post any pics that i find later on.