Oku Hanako

Oku Hanako is a J-pop musician focusing on piano ballads, comparable (not saying identical) to Angela Aki in both music and design, as she also sports activities the cute-girl-with-glasses picture. Her commercial achievement is her personal, however, gained through dedicated road shows that brought her a significant label gig and a style song agreement for THE LADY Who Leapt Through Period movie, which mainly launched her profession. Given birth to in 1978 inside a music-loving family members in Chiba prefecture, Oku used piano at age 5. She performed trumpet inside a brass music group in senior high school, but under no circumstances quit the piano, and began to perform in the roads of Tokyo, offering her very own indie releases, like the one Hanabi (2004) as well as the full-length Vol. Greatest (2005). She shifted over 400 copies in a number of hours once, and finally got agreed upon by Pony Canyon, although she maintained a habit to do an occasional road show. Oku’s initial release for a significant label was the one Yasahii Hana (2005); the same season, she got her have radio display KameKameHouse, renamed Lagan de Speak! this year 2010. The record Yasashii Hana no Saku Basho emerged in 2006, accompanied by the one Garnet, which became the main element achievement of Oku’s profession, being highlighted in the acclaimed cartoon movie THE LADY Who Leapt Through Period by Madhouse. Since that time, she has resolved in a reliable work pattern, launching albums every one per year and touring the united states frequently. Her initial Japan-wide tour occurred in 2007; Oku can be known for keeping “women-only” concerts occasionally. Of her singles, Ashita Saku Hana (2008) and Garasu No Hana (2010) should have special talk about, the previous having been found in a NHK plan on ecology as well as the latter highlighted in the videogame Stories of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X.