Japanese computerised singer from pop group AKB48 fools thousands of fans
SHE looked like the picture perfect pop star, but Japanese singing sensation Aimi Eguchi wasn't even real. The young starlet was a hoax - she was computer generated from composite pictures of six of the most attractive members of the band AKB48. Her high-pitched singing voice was an auto-tuned actor's, according to the Daily Mail.
Fans who followed the supposedly 16-year-old star in the Japanese girl group have been left shocked. Earlier this year Aimi joined the musical group AKB48, a musical super group in Japan. The 61 group members make daily performances at a theatre in Tokyo while thousands of teenage girls compete to become new members. They also star in a hit TV show.
The Daily Mail reports Aimiâ??s AKB 48 profile said that she was 16,competed in track and field, and that she was from Saitama, a prefecture on the island of Honshu. But diehard fans began to smell a rat after Aimi, who was initiated as a lowly trainee, starred in a candy advert alongside the group's most established members soon after.
AKB48â??s management company initially said: "Sheâ??s real. She didnâ??t take the 12th generation auditions, so we had to quickly accept her (into generation 12.5)," in a statement. But the hoax was finally unveiled when a website released a video showing how the show's producers had composed her features.
The video shows how graphics experts studied the features of six of the most attractive group members who initially performed in the candy advert and took images of each girl's eyes, nose, mouth, hair and body, face outline and eyebrows and digitally merged them to create the "perfect" group member.
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