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Kiss (Chara EP)
is the second EP released by Chara, which was released on September 24, 2008 (two months after her 12th original album, Honey). It was her first EP marketed as a ''mini-album'' as opposed to a single. It debuted at #30 on the Japanese Oricon album charts, and charted in the top 300 for six weeks. The EP comprises three covers and two versions of one original song. was used as the theme song for the film version of the novel . The song ''Kiss'' is a different version of ''Kieru'', featuring the same arrangement but different lyrics. The lyrics of both songs were written in collaboration with ''Snakes and Earrings'' author Hitomi Kanehara, with Kanehara primarily writing ''Kieru'' and Chara primarily writing ''Kiss''. The cover tracks are ''Tomorrow'', a cover of the song from the 1977 musical ''Annie'', '' Time After Time'', a cover of the hit 1984 single by Cyndi Lauper and , a cover of Japanese rock band Southern All Stars' 1982 single. ''Tomorrow'' was used in Astellas Pharm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara (singer)
, better known by her stage name Chara, is a Japanese singer, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single ''Heaven''. She is known for her song "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)", the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film '' Swallowtail Butterfly'' in which she starred, her 1997 hit single " Yasashii Kimochi", and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, " Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". Chara later formed a band with Yuki, called Mean Machine. Early life Chara grew up in Kawaguchi, Saitama. She started learning the piano from age four, and starting composing songs in elementary school. In her first year of elementary school, she performed a song she had written, , at a school piano recital., accessed through She originally received her nickname ''Chara'' in junior high school, after a teacher called her this. She was so well known by this name that even some of her friends did not know her real name. She continues to use this name as she believ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara (singer) EPs
Chara may refer to: Places * Chara (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia * Chara Airport, an airport in Russia near the rural locality * Chara (river), a river in Russia *Chara Sands, a sanded area in Siberia, Russia Science * ''Chara'' (alga), a genus of algae in the family Characeae * ''Chara'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae * CHARA array, a telescope *Beta Canum Venaticorum or Chara, a star *Chara or Southern dogs, a constellation including Beta Canum Venaticorum and Cor Caroli Other uses *Chara (surname) * Chara, a character in the video game '' Undertale'' * Chara (singer), Japanese singer *Chara people, ethnic group in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia *Chara language, the language of the Chara people * USS ''Chara'' (AKA-58), a 1944 Achernar class attack cargo ship * ''Chara'' (magazine), a Japanese Yaoi/Shōjo magazine See also *''Shugo Chara!'', a 2008 manga series * Novaya Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keisuke Kuwata
is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and frontman for the Southern All Stars, as well of his own solo band, the Kuwata band. He has also done a significant amount of scoring music for films. He went to Aoyama Gakuin University. In 2010, Southern All Stars was ranked No. 1, and Kuwata's solo band, the Kuwata Band, ranked No. 12 on HMV Japan's list of the top 100 musicians in Japan. Kuwata has worked as a record producer, a movie director, has recorded albums as bandleader of his own band, the Kuwata Band, and has worked on projects scoring music to film. Biographical information Keisuke Kuwata was born February 26, 1956, and raised in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Kuwata's wife, Yuko Hara, is also a member of the Southern All Stars. She is a vocalist and plays keyboards. The two met while in college, where they were in the same circle of musicians. They married in 1982, after the success of the band's single Chako no Kaiganmonogatari, and invi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Hyman
Robert Andrew Hyman (born April 24, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard and accordion player, producer, arranger and recording studio owner, best known for being a founding member of the rock band The Hooters. Early life Hyman started taking piano lessons at the age of four and grew up playing in local bands in Meriden, Connecticut, including The Trolls and the Pro-Teens. He attended Francis T. Maloney High School, where he was the editor of the yearbook, "Most Likely to Succeed" and class valedictorian. While attending the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, Hyman met future bandmate and composing partner Eric Bazilian and producer Rick Chertoff. In the late 1960s, Hyman and Chertoff, along with local singer David Kagan formed a band called Wax, who recorded an album in the early 1970s. The Hooters Hyman and Eric Bazilian formed The Hooters in 1980. The band played its first show on July 4 of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zentarō Watanabe
, was a Japanese musician and music producer. He debuted as a musician in 1986 as the guitarist for the band Shijin no Chi, later forming the duo Oh! Penelope with former bandmate Mutsuji Tsuji. Since the mid-1990s, Watanabe worked as a music producer, creating songs such as Chara's " Yasashii Kimochi" (1997), Hitomi's "Love 2000" and Ikimonogakari's "Hana wa Sakura Kimi wa Utsukushi" (2008). In 2000, Watanabe launched a solo project entitled Atami. Biography Watanabe debuted as a member of the band Shijin no Chi, through Epic Records Japan. By 1993, the three-person unit had released five studio albums. In March 1994, Watanabe retooled the group as a duo, creating Oh! Penelope with Shijin no Chi's vocalist Mutsuji Tsuji. Oh! Penelope's mini album ''Photograph'' (1995) was one of the first enhanced CDs released in Japan. After releasing their debut full-length album ''Milk & Cookies'' in March 1997, the band disbanded by June. After the band's disbandment, Watanabe focuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Strouse
Charles Strouse (born June 7, 1928) is an American composer and lyricist best known for writing the music to such Broadway musicals as ''Bye Bye Birdie'', ''Applause'', and '' Annie''. Life and career Strouse was born in New York City, to Jewish parents, Ethel (née Newman) and Ira Strouse, who worked in the tobacco business. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he studied under Arthur Berger, David Diamond, Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger."Charles Strouse" masterworksbroadway.com, retrieved December 11, 2017 Strouse's first Broadway was '' |
Martin Charnin
Martin Charnin (November 24, 1934 – July 6, 2019) was an American lyricist, writer, and theatre director. Charnin's best-known work is as conceiver, director, and lyricist of the musical '' Annie.'' Life and career Charnin was born in New York City, the son of Birdie (Blakeman) and William Charnin, an opera singer. His family was Jewish. Charnin graduated from The High School of Music & Art and then from The Cooper Union, where he earned a BFA."Martin Charnin Biography". FilmReference.com, accessed July 11, 2012 Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as "Big Deal", one of the Jets in the original production of ''''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumiko Hirano
is a feminine Japanese given name. Possible writings *文子 (sentence, child) - also can be read as "Ayako" *富美子 or 冨美子 (wealthy beautiful child) *芙美子 (hibiscus, beautiful child) *史子 (historical child) People with the name *Fumiko Aoki, a cross-country skier (富美子) *Fumiko Enchi, a writer active in the Shōwa period (文子) *, Japanese writer and poet *, Japanese politician *, Japanese artist *, Japanese long jumper *Fumiko Kaneko, a Japanese anarchist and nihilist (文子) *Fumiko Kometani, an author and artist (ふみ子) *Fumiko Okuno, a Japanese synchronized swimmer (文子) *Fumiko Orikasa (born 1974), a singer and voice actress (富美子) *, Japanese diplomat *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese-German classical pianist *Fumiko Yonezawa Fumiko Yonezawa (米沢 富美子; 1938 – 17 January 2019) was a Japanese theoretical physicist. She researched semi-conductors and liquid metals. Yonezawa obtained BSc, MSc and Ph. D from Kyoto University, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
