Lets talk about the lovely Risa(Lisa) sotohana who went from a ghostly voice to a great voice.
She is my second favorite member tied with Noria and I know there is someone else who likes her way more   than the rest of us do.    

Lisa-Risa. anyone know what she's gonna do now? since she's not still continuing with BeForU, is she gonna go solo, join another group, or just quite alltogether?

From kanna's translation of that extremely sad message, I think it meant that Noria and Risa were going to go solo.  I would love to see her do more solo work 

Ahh, I wouldn't be surprised if she went solo. I believe she's good enough. I can't picture her just singing with Noria and or Riyu. The range is just so different. If she pairs up with Riyu (which I don't think will happen), they'll have to just keep rapping like on BLACK OUT.

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I think we all do.  I think Risa has shown tremendous talent in the past, and it'd be a shame if that's all we ever got to hear from her.

Risa!!
♥Risa!!

I hope she does solo work. I hope all of the BeForU members do at some point.
But i'd love to hear what Risa would sing because she's used to Love-y kinda songs.

Out of all the girls, I think she improved the most, vocally, throughout the time she was in the group.  But then again, I'll have to say she started out pretty weakly too (listen to Firefly(add vocal&mix) or compare her live performances from 06' to 07'--HUGE improvement!)  It seems like she began with such a weak little voice with hardly any range, and trained it so much now that she's surpassed Miharu and maybe even Sayaka in vocal abilities. (I will admit though, her quiet voice worked SO nicely with her original parts in Yakusoku.)

Anyway, I love Risa. She's probably got the widest range of musical talent of any of the girls.  GO RISAAAA!!

Actually I like her Matenrou voice more than Hosoi Kusari, although it is a little monotone.....

I prefer her not to strain her voice, she sounds like a shy little girl that way.

I like "Hosoi Kusari" a lot so I wait much of her in its individual career... but it should improve their voice a little more, it is not very prepared...  their voice is something strange  (personal appreciation) very soft as in "Matenrou", ugly in "6 rainbow", potent in " bala#bala ", thick for moments... very sweet in other.. uhmm for that reason thinks that he lacks to train its voice 

I know she loves punk rock, but it seems that she likes to strain it the way as in Near Me.

I admit the song is nice, but I don't like her voice in it.

I like Matenrou a lot better (it's so sad!!) but I think her voice had improved by the time she did Hosoi Kusari. I'd like to see her re-do Matenrou a bit.

Just like what I did with Miharu and Shiyuna, here's Risa's profile from this site: http://www.freepe.com/std.cgi?id=mzdxyz&pn=01

Name: Sotohana Risa
Date of Birth: January 28 1988
Bloodtype: A
Place of Birth: Gunma Prefecture
Personality: Someone who doesn't like going through a lot of fuss, lonely, loves music
Hobbies: Composing music, music games
Special skills: Piano, touch typing, sleeping anywhere (sometimes in class...)
Favourite Words: Sing for me your song*, calm down, oh yeah!*
Favourite Type: gentle and mature
Favourite Artists: Asaki, Shiina Ringo, ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
Favourite Movies: Keisoku (the movie), Saimin
Dreams/Aspirations: (to be added, need to translate this)

* originally in english

All I can say is that me and Risa Sotohana share almost the same music tastes. *sweatdrop* I love Asaki and Shiina Ringo and Asian Kung-Fu Generation. She's quickly matching Miharu now as my favourite Next member.

Forget the last bit!

I LOVE RISA HOW SHE IS!!!!!!!!!!!

DON'T CHANGE RISA DARLING!!!!!

anyone heard any updates at all from Risa?? I want to know what she's up to.

Seems like notings been heard of yet....