Gille (singer)
Gille (own spelling: GILLE; born January 4, 1987 in Saito, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan) is the stage name of a J- pop singer with pop and electro influences.
She began her career in 2011, where she served as indie artist, two singles under the name Tasha Gee (own spelling: TASHA gee ) published. She was unsuccessful, but in 2012 got her first recording contract with the sub- label Universal J, the record company Universal Music Japan.
Life and career
Since the age of six Gille learned English and won in their time at school several times in speech competitions. Thus, she won a scholarship to a university in Los Angeles.
Their debut single Will she published 18 July 2011, under the stage name Tasha Gee. The song she dedicated her family who was ill with foot-and- mouth disease. However, the single was unsuccessful and her second single Hanabira / Hatsukoi Memory (Japanese花びら/初恋 メモリー), which she published on 30 May 2012 also. In the same year she released digital singles, which cover of Japanese songs are in English.
After she was discovered on YouTube in 2012, she got an offer from the record company Universal Music Japan, because of their powerful voice and their liquid English pronunciation, and she signed the record deal. You need to restart it changed her stage name to Gille. She has published more cover songs digitally, including Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO, which was a duet with the American singer Steve Jay. Because the record company wanted to risk an international step with her, was on 16 May 2012, a international digital EP, Lead the Way published. However, the EP was only a minor hit and the record company wanted a new path, they marketed as unknown, and it was on their first album cover not shown her face.
The cover album called I Am Gille. , Was published on 18 July 2012 and has English translations of Japanese songs and internationally successful English songs. Unexpectedly, the album shot to # 7 on the Oricon charts in the first week and has sold 18,004 times. The album spent 19 weeks on the charts and was in Japan, selling more than 70,000 times.
On 24 October 2012, she also released her first single under the name Gille, who was called Girls / Winter Dream. The song Girls is a sample from the O-Zone Dragostea din tei - hit and goes more into the electro-pop genre. In a Global Edition ( English versions of both songs) the single was two days earlier internationally, published in digital format. On January 30, 2013 was followed by their next single, under the name Try Again, this issue led to various previews on YouTube (so-called teaser) with many Japanese celebrities who have contributed to the theme of the single. The theme was strength: to fall and get up again and again.
Her first studio album she released on March 6, 2013, and called it Gille Sound Vol.1. The album features new songs over the next, released under Universal Music Japan, single releases and a new edition of its emotional song Will. Finally, the album reached only a small success and one announced for September 4, 2013 her second cover album I Am Gille. 2 at.