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Aya (artist)
is a female Japanese rock artist from Beach Nine Records. AYA's song " Over Night" (2006) is used as the ending theme to the anime ''Le Chevalier D'Eon''. Currently, she is associated with the project band, CruelShe. Early life Aya was born in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, in a small town with a population of 2000. Most of her childhood was spent doodling while listening to her parents' oldies. In elementary school, Aya heard electric guitars for the first time at a Ventures' concert, and in junior high she henceforth devoted herself to hard rock and punk. She joined a girl band right after getting her first electric guitar, doing covers of bands like the Sex Pistols. Bored with school and with few friends, she missed half of the term and dropped out of school at 15. She was introduced to grunge when she heard Nirvana's 1991 album ''Nevermind'', which would have huge stylistic influence on her own musical career. Leaving home, she wandered around various citi ...
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Hokkaido
is the list of islands of Japan by area, second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own list of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by railway via the Seikan Tunnel. The largest city on Hokkaido is its capital, Sapporo, which is also its only cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, ordinance-designated city. Sakhalin lies about to the north of Hokkaidō, and to the east and northeast are the Kuril Islands, which are administered by Russia, though the four most southerly are Kuril Islands dispute, claimed by Japan. The position of the island on the northern end of the archipelago results in a colder climate, with the island seeing significant snowfall each winter. Despite the harsher climate, it serves as an agricultural breadbasket for many crops. Hokkaido was formerly known as ''Ezo'', ''Yezo'', ''Yeso'', or ''Yes ...
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Adam Kasper
Adam Kasper is an American, Seattle area record producer and engineer, with platinum and gold awards, working with such bands as Aerosmith, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, The Tragically Hip, R.E.M., Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. He went to Capital High School in Olympia, Washington. He won a Grammy Award in 2001 for his work on the Foo Fighters' '' There Is Nothing Left to Lose'' (see Grammy Awards of 2001), and again in 2004 for his work on the Foo Fighters' '' One by One''. Albums produced * Truly - '' Fast Stories... from Kid Coma'' (1995) * Seaweed - ''Spanaway'' (1995) * Soundgarden - '' Down on the Upside'' (1996) * Pond - ''Rock Collection'' (1997) * The Watchmen - '' Silent Radar'' (1998) * Wellwater Conspiracy - '' Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directives'' (1999) * Foo Fighters - '' There Is Nothing Left to Lose'' (1999) * Cold - ''13 Ways to Bleed on Stage'' (2000) * Foo Fighters - '' One by One'' (2002) * Queens of the Stone Age - ...
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A Flower In The Battlefield
A, or a, is the first Letter (alphabet), letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''English alphabet#Letter names, a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, ''English articles, a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest know ...
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