Lecca

The singer and dancer lecca is among the most prominent missionaries of dancehall and reggae in Japan, promoting the Jamaican grooves since her debut in 2005. She inserted show biz a couple of years before, searching for Plastudy Music College in 1999 and spending her years there not only studying, but executing solo and together with schoolmates in one of the most hip Tokyo night clubs. Her like for reggae, nevertheless, blossomed after graduation in 2002, when she spent half of a year in NY and Toronto, dealing with regional musicians and taking part in open-mike evenings. Back Japan in 2003, she became a member of the hip-hop music group Legnis being a vocalist and songwriter, but shortly give up to record using the reggae performer Pang, and to work single. Her indie debut, Recca (2005), offering visitor appearance by Pang, was shipped in 2005; it had been acclaimed among the greatest reggae/ska produces of the entire year, enabling lecca to try out festivals combined with the greats like Gregory Issacs and Marcia Griffiths and getting her a agreement with LEADING EDGE, where she debuted in 2006 using the EP Dreamer, accompanied by Urban Pirates (2006), which charted at amount 57. The ’80s dance-tinged Otaku Women no Utage (2007) climbed still higher, achieving amount 33. The 2008 EP, Mado no Mukou, highlighted the Jamaican manufacturer Christopher Birch, who caused Shaggy, and her third full-length, Town Caravan (2008), which lecca was became a member of by Voicemail and Diggy-MO of Soul’d Out, damaged the Oricon Best 20. In ’09 2009, lecca proceeded release a her first one, “FOR YOU PERSONALLY,” and her 4th record, Big Popper, which mentioned in the very best 20 for five weeks.