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Rola Chen is a Chinese-born Japanese gravure idol, whose real name is Yi Chen (陳 Chen 怡 Yi).

Bio

Born on May 13, 1987 in Hangzhou, Rola participated in the Super Girl Contest and made it into the top 50, being discovered by a music producer who came from Japan.^[1]

She first went to Japan in 2006 and made her debut on May 2007.^[1] Since then, in Japan, she has appeared in over 36 television programs, over 30 magazines, two radio programs, one television drama, one television commercial (for a canned coffee brand product of Asahi Soft Drinks) and released a photo book titled Rola♥Rola.

Her current noted works include her appearance in the 2008-launched NHK educational program "Chinese [language] on TV", where she has appeared as the host alongside Eiko Koike (as the student role) since March 31, 2008.^[2]

"Rosa Killer"

Due to her facial resemblance to Rosa Kato, she has been described as the Better-shaped Rosa (スタイル改良版ローサ, by London Boots Ichi-gō Ni-gō), the Decent-metabolized Rosa (まともに代謝できるローサ) or simply the Rosa Kai (ローサ改). Besides, Chen is often called the Rosa Killer, as she has "taken" Kato's jobs which included many television programs and ads as well as the Asahi coffee product ad and she eventually made Kato a serious "fade out" as the result of it.^[3] She has stated that she doesn't like the nickname Rosa Killer because she has nothing against Kato and she didn't know who Kato is until she got the nickname.

Personal life

When Rola was in middle school, her nickname was "Flower" (花, according to Rola, in China, the most pretty girl in a school gets this nickname).^[4] She describes herself as a hardcore narcissist, as she photographs herself at least 100 times within a day by using her own digital camera.^[5]

Refs

External links

• Her agency's Official page(Japanese)
• Official blog(Japanese)