Ryota Katayose

Ryota Katayose is one of those performers where you watch him once and immediately think, okay, this guy genuinely has no business being this good at three different things. As a member of the LDH family — the powerhouse behind EXILE and its constellation of acts — he came up in a scene that demands total package artistry, and he delivers: the voice is clean and surprisingly emotive, the dancing is sharp without ever looking mechanical, and when he steps into an acting role he actually commits rather than coasting on his looks. Born in Osaka but carrying this almost polished, princely presence that feels miles away from scrappy Namba energy, there's a quiet contradiction in him that I find genuinely compelling. He doesn't seem like someone chasing fame so much as someone who just quietly stacked skills until the world had no choice but to notice.

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Ryota Katayose is a Japanese singer, dancer, and actor born on August 29, 1994, in Osaka Prefecture. He is known for his versatile performing arts career spanning music, dance, and acting. Katayose is affiliated with LDH, the entertainment group behind the artist collective EXILE, as reflected by his official LDH profile page.

Name (English)

Ryota Katayose

Name (Japanese)

片寄涼太

Reading

かたよせ りょうた

Born

August 29, 1994 (age 32)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Origin

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Agency

LDH JAPAN

Active years

2011 -

Occupation

Singer / Dancer / Actor

Spouse

土屋太鳳

Works summary

Appearances

59 (2014–2025)

By year

2014: 1, 2015: 3, 2017: 5, 2019: 11, 2020: 5, 2021: 3, 2022: 3, 2023: 13, 2024: 4, 2025: 5

Debut work

GTO

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.ldh.co.jp/eng/management/katayose
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ryota_katayose__official/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%87%E5%AF%84%E6%B6%BC%E5%A4%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11569559

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Singer
• Dancer
• Actor

Last updated

2026-08-26

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.