Biography

Sexy Zone is a five-member Japanese Boy Band managed by Johnny & Associates, consisting of Shori Sato, Kento Nakajima, Marius Yo, Fuma Kikuchi and Sou Matsushima. When they debuted their group age average was 14.6. Sexy Zone is the 5th group from Johnny & Associates to debut as special supporters for the "FIVB World Cup Volleyball" in 2011 after V6(1995), ARASHI (1999), NEWS (2003) and Hey! Say! JUMP (2007) from the same agency. 

Sexy Zone was announced as a group in a press conference in September 29, 2011. Johnny & Associates's CEO Johnny Kitagawa said, "The group name came from Mickael Jackson's sexiness". The members were revealed to be Nakajima Kento (1994.03.13), Kikuchi Fuma (1995.03.07), Sato Shori (1996.10.30), Matsushima So (1997.11.27), and Marius Yo (2000.03.30). Kitagawa chose the members considering the "sexiness of men".

After the press conference, the members appeared in Teigeki Johnnys Imperial Theatre Special "Kis-My-FT2 with Johnny's Jr.", and premiered their debut song "Sexy Zone", which was subsequently released on November 16, 2011 from Pony Canyon. This song was also the image song of the 2011 FIVB Women's World Cup  and the FIVB Men's World Cup. The group were special supporters of 2011 FIVB World Cup. "Sexy Zone" was ranked in the Oricon charts.