Onitsuka Chihiro

With her strong and versatile voice and proficiency over the piano, singer/songwriter Onitsuka Chihiro is viewed in Japan as an ideal option to prefabricated pop stars, especially since her music includes a huge pop potential aswell, comprising mellow sentimental ballads interspersed with the casual fast rock and roll track. Onitsuka was raised on American pop just like the Carpenters and Carole Ruler, started composing her very own poetry at age ten, discovered another way to obtain motivation in Alanis Morissette, and lastly uncovered the music of Jewel, who became her primary influence and produced her shoot for a professional profession. While still in senior high school, Onitsuka experienced a whole lot of music contests, earning the 1998 Virgin Tokyo Performers Audition, and transferred to Tokyo immediately after school to become full-time musician, having many dozen entries in her personal songbook currently. Her debut solitary, “Glow,” wasn’t effective enough to help make the Oricon Best 200, however the following solitary, “Gekkou” (2000), linked with the TV crisis Trick, reached a good quantity 30 and, even more impressively, became a long-runner (keeping continuous product sales for 12 weeks), that is an unusual matter for the quickly changing Japanese musical graphs. From then on, her debut record, Insomnia, topped exactly the same graphs in 2001 and continued to market 1.4 million units. At that time, Onitsuka even appreciated a little bit of worldwide interest, as her melody “Innocence” was selected for a countrywide ad launched by way of a Silicon Valley firm, Applied Components, on CNN and CNBC. The general public liked the melody more than enough for the label release a the one “Cage” within the U.S., although its product sales weren’t strong more than enough to warrant further advertising of Onitsuka within the American marketplace. In 2001 the well-known French movie director Luc Besson also selected Onitsuka’s “Rasen” for the soundtrack from the action-comedy flick Wasabi, which he created. Onitsuka was active on the local scene aswell, launching two albums in a single year (This Shield and Sugar Great, 2002) and getting a song within an ad with the megacorp Japanese Railway. This burst of activity demonstrated too much in the long run. First, Onitsuka had a need to stop in purchase to endure throat medical procedures. The procedure was nothing critical, but on the other hand her label, Toshiba EMI, transformed release programs in that which was seen as milking fans for the money, a move that prompted an irritated Onitsuka to indication with General, although she was struggling to end Toshiba EMI from re-releasing her previous materials. In 2004 she presented her new audio on the nearly hard-rocking one “Sodatsu Zassou,” and also covered “HAS THE AROMA OF Teen Heart” on Japanese Television (to much hype), however the stress finally got the greater of her, and from then on Onitsuka continued a hiatus triggered, since it was later on revealed, by psychological problems. She came back three years later on with a fresh LP, NEVADA (2007), made by Kobayashi Takeshi, who caused the nationwide rock and roll gods Mr. Kids.