Biography

* Name: ???
* Name (romaji): Shirota Yuu / Shirota You / Shirota Yu
* Nickname: U-kun, Shiroro, Shiropon, Shirotan, Yuu-ani

* Family : -

• Shirota Mitsuo - father *divorced
  - tv writer for Nihon Teribi  
• Pepi - mother *divorced
• Dai - brother
  - 9 years older .
• Maria - sister
  - 7 years older .
• Jun - brother
  - older by a year , designs and model for janji .
  - he's also a member of the band , Alma 
  - click here  for Jun's blog
• Yuu
• Rina
  - 14 years younger .

* High School: Horikoshi Academy
* Profession: Singer, actor, model
* Birthdate: 1985-Dec-26
* Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
* Height: 188cm
* Weight: 74kg
* Three Size: 89-73-94 (35"-29"-37")
* Star sign: Capricorn
* Blood type: O
* Dexterity: Left Handed
* Jgroup: D-Boys
* Talent agency: Watanabe Entertainment
* Favorite Sports: Soccer
* Favorite Number to See Performed: "Onna no Ronsou"
* Favorite Food: Chocolate, rice cookies
* Close Friends:
   tomohisa Yamashita (Since High School), Jin Akanishi,
   Ikuta Toma
* Place He'd Like to Go on Vacation: America


Early life
Shirota was born on December 26, 1985 to a Japanese father and a Spanish mother. Because his mother is Spanish, he lived in Barcelona, Spain until he was about
2 years old.

He returned to Japan for elementary school and could
still speak Spanish in ordinary conversation.

According to Shirota, when he was little, his family liked to sing songs, so he would borrow his older sister's keyboard, while his mother taught him piano.

Thus spawned Shirota's love for composing. He composed his first piece when he was in the fourth grade, titled the "The Tear".


Career
He has also appeared in various numbers of commercials, commercial videos, TV shows, musicals, and movies.

Shirota's appeared in Mai Hoshimura's 2002 "Stay With You" music video and MISIA's 2003 "In My Soul" music video.

In September 2006, he, along with fellow D-Boy member, Yuya Endo, appeared in the music video for RAG FAIR's "Kimi no Tame ni Boku ga Tate ni Naro", playing a young man planning to propose to his girlfriend.

And he's starred in a series of commercial videos for the game, Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side and the game, Shadow Hearts From the New World (2005).

He was also a part of the 2005 Watanabe net drama, Hice Cool, appearing alongside fellow D-Boy members, Yanagi Kotarou, Endou Yuuya, and Adachi Osamu.

Shirota also starred in the TV drama special, The Hit Parade, portraying the real-life Mickey Curtis. The show, which aired May 26, 2006 on Fuji TV, also starred fellow D-Boys members Masato Wada, Hirofumi Araki, Masaki Kaji, Hiroki Suzuki, Yuuya Endo and Seto Kouji.

Shirota's appeared on a radio show on FM Osaka 851, performing live on October 7th, 2006.


DD BOYS
In October 2004, Shirota joined the Watanabe Entertainment group, the D-BOYS.

As a member of the D-Boys, Shirota also keeps a blog, which he updates occasionally.

Being a part of the D-Boys provided Shirota with a lot of opportunities. Among them was to perform with the group of boys and expand his experience as a performer.

The D-Boys so far have released two Photobooks. The first photobook released on April 27, 2005, was self-titled D-Boys, while the second, released on March 15th, 2006, was called Start, both which contain many photos of Shirota.

He's also hosted a radio show called "Marvelous Radio Vibration" with fellow D-Boys member, Kotaroh Yanagi and Yukki. The show aired on May 5, 2005 and ended its run on April 1, 2006.

The D-boys have also starred in their own drama documentary variety show called, DD-Boys in which Shirota's appeared in multiple episodes as himself.

The show was 23 episodes long and ran from April 10th to September 25th, 2006.

In June 2007, the D-Boys will also be starring in their very own musical together called, D-BOYS STAGE,which will run from June 3rd to June 10th at the Space Zero theater in Tokyo.

Shirota will only be appearing in the musical as a guest performer, making select appearances on June 3rd, June 8th and June 10th.

source : wikipedia page on shirota