Ringo Sheena
Sheena Ringo (Japanese椎 名 林檎, Shiina Ringo, born November 25, 1978 in Fukuoka Prefecture, as Yumiko Shiina (椎 名 裕美子, Shiina Yumiko ) ) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, guitarist, bass player, drummer and pianist.
She also worked from 2004 until the dissolution in 2012 singer of the band Tokyo Jihen.
- 3.8.1 Music Video Collection
- 3.8.2 Live Concert
- 3.8.3 Feature Film
Childhood
Yumiko Shiina was born in Fukuoka prefecture, the daughter of Kotaro Shiina, an employee of an oil company and Akiko Shiina, a housewife. Yumiko suffered since birth from a disease through which the esophagus becomes narrower towards the stomach, which has led to many operations. The operations left numerous scars on her shoulder blades.
Your understanding of art began with the interest of their father's jazz and classical music. Her mother studied at the College majoring in dance and ballet. In Yumikos parents house was music of all kinds, as well as a piano and a guitar. Her father also read a great many music magazines. They began with five years of playing the piano and learned classical ballet.
In her early childhood, Yumiko was a very joyous contact girl, but she was always shy and silent. The meaning of her stage name Ringo is translated Apple, as an allusion, as she imagined her class on her red head.
At the age of 15 years, she worked in several bands and as a solo artist. In 1995, she got an Honorary Mention at Teens Music Festival as a member of the girl group Marvelous Mables. Later she received an Award of Excellence as a solo artist in the finals of the annual Music Quest.
Solo career
Her first official single was released in May 1998 under the name Kōfukuron (theory of happiness ). The debut album Muzai moratorium appeared in February 1999 and was praised by both critics and the public alike. The second, somewhat rockier album Shoso Strip (March 2000 ), was also an excellent prizes success and sold over two million times. This was followed by numerous tours until 2001, a pregnancy-related time out took. A year later, she released the double album Utaite Myōri, which contains exclusively cover songs ( including I Love You by Edvard Grieg, which she sings in German ), as well as a duet with pop singer Hikaru Utada known. In February 2003, finally released their last album Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana, in the 45 minutes Sheena Ringo finally exceeds the boundaries of conventional pop.
Sheena Ringo's musical style is considered to be versatile and unique. Borrowings from jazz, swing, punk, classical and rock are processed and mixed with colorful harmonies and experimental sound effects to a very own sound, with hard guitars also used to come as a classic big band, a symphonic orchestra ( without beat) or even the voice of an airport announcement. In contrast to fashion many Japanese musicians Sheena Ringo usually omitted it to intersperse single English line, instead you will find songs that are kept entirely in English ( zBStem ) or German and French ( the latter only on their cover album ). Her trademark is a versatile voice with a Japanese standards excessively rolled "r".
In order to allocate their music a genre, it created quite simply their own and called it Shinjuku -kei, so as " Shinjuku - style ", as a parody of Shibuya -kei. In the public but it is still viewed as a rock artist.
At the age of 24 Sheena married the guitarist Junji Yayoshi and had a child with him, however, already divorced 14 months later. At the end of the first part of her solo career, she renounced her trademark and published Ringo no Uta, a musical cross-section of their career.
On 31 May 2004 Ringo announced that it no longer work as a solo singer and founded the band Tokyo Jihen ( Tokyo Incidents also called ), with which she toured on her farewell tour ( immortalized on the Electric Mole DVD). While the first album of the band Kyoiku still rock included with slight jazz influences, hit the second album Otona with a new line- a line of the jazz-rock. End of September 2007 was released the album Variety, which - unlike its two predecessors understood more as a pop album than as rock or jazz drive - according to data Sheena Ringo.
In early 2007 announced Sheena Ringo's a solo comeback - first with a digital only released single Karisome Otome (in cooperation with Soil & "Pimp " Sessions ), but shortly thereafter with a maxi-single ( Kono Yo ( DEATH JAZZ VER. ) no Kagiri ) and an album ( Heisei fuzoku ) - both produced in collaboration with violinist Saito Neko, Shiina Junpei, Sheena Ringo's brother, acted for Kono Yo no Kagiri a duet partner.
In addition, Heisei fuzoku regarded as the unofficial soundtrack to the movie Sakuran, to which she composed the music.
Coinciding with the album and a live DVD was released - then later still a DVD version of the album, which offers a higher sound quality and " visual accompaniment " to the individual songs.