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Posted by halicolipocky0 pt Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Kitano Kii to become a cheerleader?

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On July 19th, it was revealed that actress Kitano Kii will be the �special cheerleader� for a teen rock festival, �Senkou Riot 2011�!

�Senkou Riot� is a rock festival that begun in 2008 based on the TOKYO FM�s teen radio program, �SCHOOL OF LOCK!� which is sponsored by Sony Music. During its first year, fifteen groups were elected from over 10,000 demo tapes, studio appearances, and live performances. These groups performed live in Tokyo and attracted a huge crowd of around 12,000 people. This program helped bands like Galileo Galilei, Negoto, and several other artists to achieve their major label debut, and has since garnered much attention from the Japanese music industry for its up-and-coming artists.

This year, the event began accepting applications as early as January, but were soon interrupted by the Tohoku earthquake. Even then, however,� the applications did not slow d: approximately 10,000 applications were received by the May 20th deadline. Currently, they are judging the live performances of these artists. The final screening of this program is scheduled for September 4th at Tokyo's Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall and will feature 10 groups. The judging will be based on the reactions of the audience and judges from the program staff, such as Principal Tooyama and Vice Principal Yashiro. After all of the artists have performed at the free event, one winner will be chosen.

During the press conference at KDDI Designing Studio in Tokyo, Kitano made several statement about her role as a "cheerleader". Regarding Nadeshiko Japan�s triumph at the world cup event for women�s soccer, Kitano stated, �I am happy. Extremely happy. I was too embarrassed to cry but I did watch it. As a woman, I was encouraged by them.

Kitano Kii then explained her new job to the crowd. �I have always admired cheerleaders so I am happy [about this job],� she said before showing the audience a poster of her expressionless face. �I think photos of full of smiles are great, but this photo was chosen because we thought this one fit best for this program. Rather than everyone doing their best and smiling, I think� they should just listen and forget the bad things with music on this day. I think there are plenty of people who wanted to participate but couldn�t. But it's because at times like those, I'd like for the power of teens to explode at a please like this.

The popular radio program �SCHOOL OF LOCK!� has been using their concept of �a school where young people nationwide holds the key of the future to (LOCK)� since it aired its first broadcast in 2005.

Check out the pictures from the press conference below!

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Source+ Photos: Mantan Web

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