Japanese musical culture is distinguished by a huge number of popular artists and a specific repertoire. The peculiarity of Japanese songs is the impossibility of verbatim translation of texts into Russian. Japanese singers not only write and perform their own songs on their own, are part of various vocal groups, but also voice virtual characters. There is a separate category - fully virtual artists. Which Japanese singers are most popular? How did they become famous?
Popular singers of Japan
Many Japanese singers have become popular thanks to the successful scoring of famous virtual heroes. Utada Hikaru became famous for her song for the Kingdom Hearts video games. She has released 11 albums in English and Japanese. The most famous among us are “Devil Inside”, “Exodus”, “This is That”, “Come Back To Me”, “You Make Me”.
Japanese singers can also become a model of style and trendsetters, Ayumi Hamasaki leads the list. She not only earned the title “Empress of Pop”, but, despite her small stature, became the face of the Panasonic brand by participating in an advertising campaign for the Lumix camera line.
Singer Itano Tomomi in 2005 joined the popular AKB48 group , ahead of 7924 applicants. At that time, the girl was only 14 years old. Now Ethano Tomomi is a well-known actress, solo singer and model, she starred in the films School Madzhiska, Bad Boys Jay.
Japanese performers of Russian origin
There are Japanese singers who are not of local origin. Popular in Japan was Olga Yakovleva. She is known by the pseudonym Origa. The girl came to Japan in 1990 by invitation, as a representative of Russian culture at the festival held in Sapporo. After a successful debut, Road & Sky offered a partnership. Origa remained in Japan, eventually began a solo career, successfully voiced 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: Loneliness Syndrome".
Japanese performers of the world of TECHNO
A separate place in the ranking is occupied by popular Japanese singers from the world of TECHNO. These are fully virtual artists who have their own repertoire, albums and fans. So far, one hologram singer has been created. She became the property and pride of Crypton Media. The voice of this performer is original, created artificially. It is easy to distinguish a virtual singer from a real performer by ear, it is not voiced by a person. The singer’s voice is independently synthesized from the original human voice using the Yamaha vocaloid program. This is Miku Hatsune. Her songs occupy a leading position in the charts. Virtual singer gathers huge halls. She sings only live, and at this time a hologram is dancing on the stage. Dance and movements are close to the real movements of a person on the stage, each performance is worked out by the choreographic and vocal developers. The hologram itself continues to improve as technology develops. Japanese hologram singers are the country's future.