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**Jesse Masaya Lewis** (ルイス・まさや・ジェシー, born June 11, 1996, Heisei 8th Year) is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, and fashion model. He is currently a member of the japanese boygroup, SixTONES. He was known as **Jesse Lewis** (ルイス・ジェシー) before changing it into just **Jesse** as his stage name.

He was born in Tokyo. He belongs to the Japanese talent agency, Johnny & Associates.

## Biography

He graduated from Tachikawa Daini Junior High School. He joined Johnny's agency in September 2006. He didn't know what Johnny's was at all, but Joey Tee, who was a Johnny's Jr. trainee, came into the karate dojo he was attending at the time and became good friends with him. Joey was also the one who invited him to join the agency. After hearing that Johnny Kitagawa was looking for "a cool and mixed race kid", he went to see Kitagawa at a later date after first consulting with his mother. Without talking about anything in particular, suddenly he was given 1000 yen to "go buy something", and without knowing, he was also made to go back-dancing for the rehearsal of "The Shonen Club". Two weeks later, he will be on stage at NHK Hall for the actual recording.

After working for Johnny's Jr.'s unit Team USA, J-international, etc., he has been active as a member of Hip Hop Jump (or Hip Hop JUMP) from November 2008 to 2011. In 2015, he also participated in the making of Sexy Zone 3rd album "Sexy Power3" as a part of Sexy Family. On May 1, 2015, at "Johnny's Ginza 2015", it was announced that six people—including Jesse—from the TV drama "Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou" would form SixTONES. The group will then have their CD debut on January 22, 2020, alongside Snow Man.

As an actor, he made his first appearance in the TV drama "Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou" in April 2012. In the following July of the same year, he stars in "Sprout", where he played the role of Hey! Say! JUMP Yuri Chinen's best friend and love rival, as one of the four high schooler main character. Furthermore, in the one-shot TV drama "THE QUIZ" broadcast on September 1st of the same year, he was given a major role for the first time. In addition, he made his first appearance in the movie "Gekijouban Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou" released in October 2012, and also starred with Hokuto Matsumura and Juri Tanaka in the movie "Vanilla Boy Tomorrow Is Another Day" released in September 2016.

From 2014, he has been a regular model for "FINEBOYS" published by Hinode for about 6 years. He then graduateed in July 2020 and transfer to the company's "Safari".

Previously, he was actively working in the industry as "Jesse Lewis". Since it was pointed out by Johnny Kitagawa that the name is too long, he took the opportunity to publicly announce and change his stage name to just "Jesse" while appearing in the TV drama "Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou" in December 2012 to January 2013.

## Discography

### Unit Songs

  2021  | LOUDER |  CITY  | Shintaro Morimoto

### Duet Songs

 WHY | Taiga Kyomoto | JぇSSE, Taiga Kyomoto | Boyes Peter, Hallgren Jon

### Solo Songs

 My song | JぇSSE | Palmqwist Erik Arvid, Kvint Peter Sven

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## Trivia

* He first learnt about his blood type in a video uploaded at the Johnny's Jr Youtube channel in 2019.
* One time, in his private time, Jesse and his comedian friend goes together to Disneyland. While ordering a drink, he made a joke. A fan that heard his joke share it on twitter and it went viral for the day.

## References

1. ↑ 最新情報 (Japanese). *『映画 少年たち』公式サイト*. 松竹. Retrieved on November 17, 2018.