ayaka
Ayaka (Japanese绚 香), civil Ayaka Iida (饭 田 绚 香, Iida Ayaka, born December 18, 1987 in Moriguchi ) is a Japanese J-pop singer who is currently under contract with Warner Music.
Biography
Ayaka had her first appearance at a school festival, where they recited only songs by Japanese artists. By a listener, she was moved then to write the VOICE Music Center in Fukuoka first songs and record. In 2005, she appeared primarily on small public music events and was active as an opening act for other bands. Although they had no record deal, she sang the closing credits song for the Japanese drama @ Human and turned a music video to it. Nevertheless, the piece Mikazuki over a year was long not be published.
In January 2006, I Believe was recorded, which should serve as the end credits song for the Japanese drama Rondo. Since this mission many viewers reached across Japan, the piece has been downloaded over a million times. This I Believe became the third most successful debut single in the download charts. With the regular publication on 2 February 2006 the single reached # 3 on the Oricon charts and sold ultimately 236 012 times. An English cover of the song was used by Miki Ando while skating Competition 2006 Skate America. Since Ando won, ayaka joined the following year at the World Figure Skating Championships 2007 live with the same song on and helped her to win, again. The single became the highest -selling 34 single of 2006.
Ayakas second single melody ~ SOUNDS REAL ~ was released on May 10, 2006 was marked by more rock influences and a limited edition of 100,000. However, the single sold poorly and only reached # 14 in the charts with 24,466 units sold. The piece also included on the single Blue Days was used as the theme song for the TV series supplicants. Their third single was called the real voice and was released on 19 July 2006. The piece was also used for the supplicants as the credits song. The single reached number 11 on the charts and with 51 121 copies, it ranked 171 in the best-selling singles of the year 2006. On September 27, 2006 their fourth single Mikazuki appeared a year after its completion. She arrived as the first single from ayaka # 1 on the charts and sold 243,133 copies and was thus for 49 best-selling single of the year 2006. Their first album, First Message appeared on 1 November 2006 and immediately became the number one in the charts. Ultimately, 1,156,619 copies were sold and the album reached number 13 in the best-selling albums in 2006. Thus, it was the most successful debut album in the album True by Mika Nakashima in 2002.
On 28 February 2007, a new single Winding Road has been announced, which should be a collaboration with the Japanese duo Kobukuro. It was ayakas best-selling single with over 350,000 copies and reached # 2 on the charts. The fifth single Jewelry Day was used as the theme song for the Japanese movie Last Love. This song was sung among others on the Live Earth in Chiba on July 7, 2007 by ayaka. The sixth single was released on 5 September 2007 and served as the theme song for the PSP game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII the end of 2007, she sang the song Peace Loving People of the known in Japan music show Kohaku Uta Gassen.
Their first single in 2008, was published on 5 March and is titled Te o Tsunago / Ai o Utao. The first piece was there. Theme song for the film Eiga Doraemon Nobita to Midori no Kyojinden and the second for a commercial of the Japanese cosmetics producer Kose Their single Okaeri appeared in May 2008 and was the title song for the film adaptation of the Japanese manga series Zettai Kareshi. The second studio album Sing to the Sky by ayaka was published on 25 June 2008 and reached position 2 on the charts.
In 2009, she released her first best-of album ayaka 's History 2006-2009 which all the singles the years from 2006 to 2009, including Yume where Mikata ni / Koi Mita Yume Kogarete and Minna Sora No Shita and a new piece with Kobukuro, Anata to contains. In addition, these ayakas song Mikazuki took for her cover album Kobukuro All Covers Best, which was released in 2010, on. Subsequently, the singer put health reasons for two years a musical pause.
In October 2011, a comeback was announced in the form of an indie album of the year 2012. This is titled The beginning and was released under their own label A station.