Kokia

Kokia never topped the Oricon graphs, but her exquisite, honed make of J-pop brought her several theme music contracts for video gaming, Television shows, and anime series, and won a devoted group of fans, not only in Japan but overseas (particularly France) aswell. Created Akiko Yoshida in 1976, she used violin at age three, learned to try out piano, and went to a music college within the U.S. double, the very first time with her sister Kyoko, afterwards a specialist violinist. She examined at the esteemed Toho Gakuen College of Music, and shortly seduced scouts from Pony Canyon and debuted being a pop vocalist in 1998 as Kokia (that is an anagram of her true name). Her debut melody, “For Small Tail,” was highlighted over the soundtrack for the Tail Concerto gaming, as well as the same calendar year she released her initial one, “Aishiteiru Kara,” found in the TV theatre Brothers. The next solitary, “Ai no Field,” found in the anime Mind Powerd, was compiled by the popular soundtrack composer Yoko Kanno, but quickly Kokia started to create songs herself, the very first becoming the solitary “Arigatou…” (1999), which got a TV theatre tie-in and was well-received in Taiwan in addition to Hong Kong, where it actually brought her an area music honor. The debut full-length Songbird arrived in 1999, but didn’t graph, prompting a hiatus that finished in 2001 with her crossing to Victor Entertainment. Her second recording, Trip Trip, didn’t make it to the Oricon aswell, but the music “SOMETHING SPECIAL” was found in Subaru advertisements world-wide, and “Kawaranai Koto (Since 1976),” presented within the anime Hungry Center Crazy Striker, became her 1st Top 50 solitary (it charted at quantity 47). The solitary “THE ENERGY of Smile”/”Keep in mind the Kiss” as well as the recording Keep in mind Me both charted at quantity 15, getting her best-selling produces in their particular classes. In 2003, Pony Canyon also utilized two of her older songs within the Chinese language TV theatre At Dolphin Bay. The 4th album Uta ga Chikara arrived in 2004, spawning two singles with an increase of tie-ins, both released in 2005, when Kokia started her Western foray: she performed in Paris in the popular MIDEM music market reasonable and released the compilation Pearl not only in Japan, however in Spain and France aswell. This appeared to strengthen her desire to have self-reliance, and in 2006, Kokia set up her very own label, Anco&co, and started her collaboration using the French Wasabi Information, which released her record Aigakikoeru half of a calendar year before its Japanese discharge. In Japan, Aigakikoeru still arrived on Victor, as she opted never to quit the label. The record just charted at amount 67 over the Oricon, however the melody “Stick to the Nightingale,” found in the game Stories of Innocence, was more lucrative, entering the very best 40. Kokia used the pace from then on, launching three albums — the neo-classical The Tone of voice, the Irish-themed Fairy Dance, as well as the self-explanatory Xmas Present — in 2008 and two even more (Akiko Kokia Stability and Kokia Akiko Stability) in ’09 2009, when she also kept her first Western european tour. She acquired three even more tie-ins with anime series in the past due 2000s, and on her behalf 11th record, REAL LIFE (2010), she journeyed to Tunisia.