Angela Aki

Angela Aki is a Japan vocalist/songwriter who specializes in piano-based pop/rock and roll. She achieved popularity after performing a theme tune for the ultimate Fantasy XII video game in 2006, although her profession was underway for a long time before that, beginning on the far side of the Pacific — which isn’t surprising, due to the fact Aki may be the child of an effective Japanese businessman and an American of Italian source. Given birth to in 1997 in Itama, Japan, as Kiyomi Aki, she received musical education because the age group of three, being shown to try out piano, violin, acoustic guitar, as well as drums. When she was 15 years of age her family relocated to Hawaii, where she graduated from senior high school, generating a scholarship for any Washington university or college. She combined politics and jazz majors, but her destiny was actually made the decision with a Sarah McLachlan display that she went to, leaving using a desire to become vocalist/songwriter. She began executing in coffeehouses and shortly fulfilled Tony Alany, who be her initial husband as well as the manufacturer of her debut indie record, 2000’s These Phrases (with lyrics in British). Aki acquired achieved moderate achievement, starting for Sixpence non-e the Richer and executing at Al Gore’s Xmas party, however in the finish she quit the American picture and came back to Japan, finishing her first relationship shortly before that. Aki’s initial Japanese discharge was the mini-album One, out in 2005. It topped HMV’s annual indie graphs and, moreover, enticed the composer Nobuo Uematsu, who allow her record his tune written for Last Illusion XII. Aki composes her very own materials, but that was as well good an opportunity to pass up, therefore, after having several moderately effective singles, she composed lyrics and sang on “Kiss Me Good-Bye” (2006), which reached amount six in the Oricon graphs and noticed a U.S. launch through Tofu Information. Aki’s long-expected Japanese full-length debut was preceded by her 4th single, “This Like,” found in the anime series Bloodstream+ and rating number two within the graphs. The album House was shipped in middle-2006 through Sony Music and offered a lot more than 500,000 devices, securing Aki’s position like a top-tier performer. Her 5th solitary, “Sakura Iro” (2007), offered a lot more than 100,000 copies; she do a campaign music for japan Football League, performed the Budokan, and got a percentage for the theatre Kodoku No Kake: Itoshiki Hito Yo (the music “Kodoku No Kakera”). Among these actions she also discovered time to obtain wedded to a person from your music industry who’s 12 years her older (his name is not disclosed). Her second Japanese recording, Today, premiered in the fall months of 2007, topping the graphs immediately and offering nearly 200,000 devices.