How did some Japanese singers become famous?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Japanese musical culture is distinguished by a huge number of popular performers and a specific repertoire. The peculiarity of Japanese songs is the impossibility of literally translating the texts into Russian. Japanese singers not only write and perform their own songs, are part of various vocal groups, but also voice virtual characters. There is a separate category - completely virtual performers. What are the most popular female singers in Japan? How did they become famous?

Japan's Popular Female Singers

Many Japanese singers have become popular thanks to the successful dubbing of famous virtual characters. Utada Hikaru became famous for her video game song Kingdom Hearts. She has released 11 albums in English and Japanese. The most famous among us are "The Devil Inside", "Exodus", "This is the One", "Come Back To Me", "You Make Me".

Japanese singers can also become a model of style and trendsetters, the list is headed by Ayumi Hamasaki. She not only earned the title of "Empress of Pop", but despite her small stature, she became the face of the Panasonic brand by participating in an advertising campaign for the Lumix line of cameras.

Singer Itano Tomomi entered the popular group AKB48 in 2005, overtaking 7924 applicants. At that time, the girl was only 14 years old. Now Itano Tomomi is a famous actress, solo singer and fashion model, she starred in the films Majiska School, Jay's Bad Boys.

Japanese artists of Russian origin

Japanese singers of non-local origin meet. Olga Yakovleva became popular in Japan. She is known under the pseudonym Origa. The girl came to Japan in 1990 by invitation, as a representative of Russian culture at a festival held in Sapporo. After a successful debut, Road & Sky offered a collaboration. Origa remained in Japan, eventually starting a solo career, successfully voicing various animation projects and video games. Many people know the song Mizu no Madoromi in Russian and Japanese for the series "Fantastic Children", the song for the anime Princess Arete called "Red Sun", as well as the Inner Universe for the anime "Ghost in the Shell: Single Syndrome".

Japanese techno artists

A separate place in the ranking is occupied by popular Japanese singers of the TECHNO world. itcompletely virtual artists who have their own repertoire, albums and fans. So far, one singer-hologram has been created. She became the property and pride of Crypton Media. The voice of this performer is original, artificially created. It is not difficult to distinguish a virtual singer from a real performer by ear, she is not voiced by a person. The singer's voice is self-synthesized from the original human voice using the Yamaha vocaloid software. This is Hatsune Miku. Her songs are at the top of the charts. The virtual singer collects huge halls. She only sings live, while a hologram is dancing on the stage. The dance and movements are close to the real movements of a person on stage, each performance is worked out choreographically and vocally by the developers. The hologram itself continues to improve as technology develops. Japanese hologram singers are the future of the country.