Ai Kawashima

Ai Kawashima (Japanese川嶋 あい, civil川岛 爱read both Kawashima Ai; born February 21, 1986 in Fukuoka ) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, pianist and former singer of the pop duo I Wish.

Musical Career

Ai Kawashima began her music career in 1999 as an enka singer and worked as a street musician in Shibuya, but the hoped-for success failed to materialize. Together with Sugawara Naohiro 2002 she founded the pop duo I Wish and was known by the first single release Asu e no Tobira. The duo thus reached # 6 of Japanese annual charts and sold over 750,000 copies. After further publications in 2005, the duo was dissolved and Ai Kawashima began her solo career.

Your 6th Single Zetsubou to Kibou was used as the theme song for the PlayStation 2 game Shining Force Neo and their 12 single Compass was the theme song of the 8th One Piece movie Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates. For Anime movie The Place Promised In Our Early Days 2004, she sang the closing credits song Kimi no koe. Moreover, it was their 15th Single Door Crawl, published in late 2007, at the same time the theme song of the Wii game Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo 's Dungeon.

In September 2005, she published her autobiography Saigo no Kotoba, which landed on the bestseller lists and sold over 300,000 times. Ai Kawashima works with several charities and opened two schools in Cambodia and Burkina Faso. The third school will be built in Liberia, and a fourth is planned. In the spring of 2009 she performed at the Japanese National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC on.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

  • Michi no Tochu de ... (1 December 2004)
  • Live 1000 Kai Tassei Kinen - 1136 Hi no Kiroku (8 June 2005)
  • PV Collection α (21 December 2005)
  • Tsubasa Matsuri '06 - Haru no Jin ( 21 June 2006)
  • Tsubasa Matsuri '06 - Himitsu no Jin ( 29 November 2006)
  • Ai Kawashima Concert Tour 2006 - Thank You! (20 December 2006)
  • Shibuya Kokaido - Tabidachi no Asa (11 April 2007)
  • Tsubasa Matsuri '07 - Haru no Jin (27 June 2007 )
  • Ai Kawashima Concert Tour 2008 The BEST seventeenfivetwentyto - (8 April 2009)
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