Chitose Hajime
Chitose Hajime (Japanese元ちとせ, Hajime Chitose, born January 5, 1979 in Setouchi on Amami - Oshima in Kagoshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese folk singer. Their music combines elements of Shima - uta their home and the international pop music.
As a high school student Hajime won a national song contest in her home. After they had to end their career as a beautician because of allergies, they started in 2001 their singers career first in the Japanese independent scene. In 2002, she made a breakthrough with the single Wadatsumi no ki ( The Tree of Watatsumi ). In the same year her first album Hainumikaze appeared.
Discography
Albums
- Higya Merabe (ひぎゃ 女童)
- Shima, Kyora, Umui (故 郷·美 ら·思い)
- Hajime Chitose
- Kotonoha (コトノハ)
- Hainumikaze (ハイヌミカゼ)
- Nomad Soul (ノマド·ソウル)
- Fuyu no Hainumikaze (冬 の ハイヌミカゼ)
- Hanadairo (ハナダイロ)
- CASSINI (カッシーニ)
Singles
- Wadatsumi no Ki (ワダツミ の 木)
- Kimi wo Omofu (君ヲ想フ)
- Kono Machi (この 街)
- Sen no Yoru to Sen no Hiru (千 の 夜 と 千 の 昼)
- Itsuka Kaze ni Naru Hi (いつか 風 に なる 日)
- Kataritsugu Koto (語り継ぐ こと)
- Haru no Katami (春 の かたみ)
- Ao no Requiem (青 の レクイエム)
- Anata ga Koko ni Ite Hoshii / Miyori no Mori (あなた が ここ に い て ほしい/ミヨリ の 森)
- Hotaru boshi (蛍 星)
DVD
- Hajime Chitose Music movie Live - " Fuyu no Hainumikaze " (ミュージック·フィルム 元 ちとせ ライヴ「冬 の ハイヌミカゼ」 )