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Ame (song)
is the 11th single by Japanese singer/songwriter Chisato Moritaka. The lyrics were written by Moritaka and the music was composed by Seiji Matsuura. The single was released by Warner Pioneer on September 10, 1990. A remix of the song, titled "Ame (as right as rain mix)", was released alongside " Watarasebashi" by zetima on November 25, 2009. The B-side is "Cup Mudle", which is a play on the word , a mashup of "musician" and "idol". Chart performance "Ame" peaked at No. 2 on Oricon's singles chart and sold 180,000 copies. It became Moritaka's first single to be certified Gold by the RIAJ. Other versions "Ame" has been released in numerous versions: * "Ame (Album Version)": The version in Moritaka's 1990 album '' Kokon Tozai'' runs at 5:18. * "Ame (Rock Version)": A rock arrangement in Moritaka's 1991 remix album ''The Moritaka''. * "Ame (1999)": Included in Moritaka's 1999 remix album '' mix age*''. * "Ame (as right as rain mix)": A re-arranged version released as a single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chisato Moritaka
(born 11 April 1969) is a Japanese pop singer who also is notable as a songwriter. She is affiliated with Up-Front Create, a subsidiary of the Up-Front Group. guide to famous Japanese personages Moritaka's singing career as the unrivaled "Dance Queen" began in May 1987 with the release of her debut album '' New Season''. She differed from many other female Idol singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junichi Inagaki
is a Japanese popular music singer. Biography Inagaki was born and raised in Sendai, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, and graduated from Miyagi Prefectural Technical High School. One of his earliest musical influences was Stevie Wonder. While a student in middle school, he joined a local band called Faces as a vocalist and drummer. Later, he also performed in bands that entertained United States military personnel stationed in Yokosuka and Tachikawa. Beginning with his commercial debut single "Rainy Regret" (雨のリグレット ''Ame no riguretto'') in 1982, Inagaki released a series of popular hits. Inagaki's music became especially well known throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His songs have appeared on several drama programs and numerous commercial advertisements on Japanese television. His 1992 ballad "When The Christmas Carols Play" (クリスマスキャロルの頃には ''Kurisumasu kyaroru no koro ni wa'') was featured on the TBS drama series ''Homework'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anri
, known as , is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, originating from Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture. Biography Her debut release was the 1978 ''Oribia o Kikinagara'' (While Listening to Olivia), written by Amii Ozaki. Her song "Cat's Eye" was used as the first opening theme for the eponymous 1983 anime series '' Cat's Eye'' and debuted as No. 1 on ''Countdown Japan''. It spent 4 weeks at No. 1 on the Oricon chart. It was one of the first J-pop songs used as an anime theme song. In 2017, she performed this song live at the opening of the touring ice show Fantasy on Ice amongst others. Another one of her hits from 1983 was "Kanashimi ga Tomaranai" ("I Can't Stop the Loneliness"). Both songs appeared on the 1983 album ''Timely!!''. She also appeared at the Red and White New Year's Music Special at the end of that same year, performing "Cat's Eye". Other hit songs include ''Summer Candles'' and ''Dolphin Ring'', both of which became standard songs played at Japanese weddings and rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yui Ichikawa
, is an actress and model from Tokyo, Japan. She is also known by her nickname, ''Yui-nyan''. As an actress she has appeared in several dramas (''doramas''), and in recent years she has concentrated more on her film career. She played a minor role in the movie '' Ju-on: The Grudge'' and reprised her character for a bigger role in the sequel, '' Ju-on: The Grudge 2''. She has portrayed Nana Komatsu (Hachi) in the film adaptation of the famous manga ''Nana'', and on December 18, 2006, Ichikawa and co-star Mika Nakashima went to New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ... for the International Premier of ''Nana 2'' at the IFC Center. Filmography Films Television Video game voicing Discography Singles Albums References External linksOfficial Home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantopop
Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hong Kong popular music from the middle of the decade. Cantopop then reached its height of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s before slowly declining in the 2000s and experiencing a slight revival in the 2010s. The term "Cantopop" itself was coined in 1978 after "Cantorock", a term first used in 1974. In the eighties Cantopop has reached its highest glory with fanbase and concerts from allover the world, especially from Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan. This is even more obvious with the influx of songs from Hong Kong movies during the time. Besides Western pop music, Cantopop is also influenced by other international genres, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is a MetaBrainz project that aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD information on the Internet. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a CD metadata (this is information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a structured online database for music. MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about the release date and country, the CD ID, cover art, acoustic fingerprint, free-form annotation text and other metadata. , Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing With An Angel
''Dancing with an Angel'' is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Rita Coolidge. Released on July 21, 1991, by Attic Records in Canada and Japan, it consists mainly of English-language covers of popular J-pop songs. Coolidge's cover of "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni", titled "Suddenly", was covered by Debbie Gibson on her 2010 cover album '' Ms. Vocalist''. The album peaked at No. 16 on Oricon's albums chart. Track listing All English lyrics are written by Priscilla Coolidge, except track 4. Personnel * Rita Coolidge – vocals * Michael Utley – acoustic piano, keyboards, Hammond B3 organ * Tom Keane – synthesizers * Dean Parks – electric lead guitar * Fred Tackett – electric lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, nylon guitar, slide guitar * Bill Sharpe – bass * Thom Mooney – drums * John Robinson – drums * Michael Fisher – percussion * Brandon Fields – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone * Rosemary Butler – backing vocals * Priscilla Coolidge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on '' Billboard'' magazine's pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts, and she won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and then-husband Kris Kristofferson. Her recordings include " (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher," "We're All Alone", "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love", and the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film ''Octopussy'': "All Time High". Life and career Early life Coolidge was born in Lafayette, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Dick and Charlotte Coolidge, a minister and schoolteacher, with sisters Linda and Priscilla, and brother Raymond. She is of Cherokee and Scottish ancestry. She attended Nashville's Maplewood High School and graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High School in Jacksonville, Florida. Coolidge is a graduate of Florida State University. She is a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Early career After singi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventeen (Japanese Magazine)
is a monthly Japanese fashion magazine for female teenagers published by Shueisha. Launched in 1967 as a weekly magazine based on the original American ''Seventeen'', the magazine changed the name to ''SEVENTEEN'' in 1987, and to ''Seventeen'' in 2008. Since the late 1990s, ''Seventeen'' has been the highest-selling teenage fashion magazine in Japan, and has featured its exclusive teenage models as ''ST-Mo'' (STモ - Seventeen Model). ''Seventeen'' is very sought after among models (teenage models) because being featured on the magazine especially on its cover and certain pages, strongly helps them to get high-quality endorsements and prestigious contracts. Well-known former ''Seventeen'' models include Megumi Asaoka, Keiko Kitagawa, Nana Eikura, Mirei Kiritani, Rie Miyazawa, Anna Tsuchiya, Hinano Yoshikawa, and Emi Suzuki. Controversy In the late 1990s, some people criticised several young female magazines, including ''Seventeen'', for "forcing their readers to have unhealthy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totally Spies!
''Totally Spies!'' is an animated spy-fi series created by Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel mainly produced by French animation company Marathon Media and French broadcaster TF1, with seasons 3 to 5 being co-produced with Canadian company Image Entertainment Corporation. It focuses on three teenage girls from Beverly Hills, California, who work as undercover agents for the World Organization of Human Protection (WOOHP). This is the first television series to be co-produced by the two production companies, the second being ''Martin Mystery'', and employs an animation style modelled on anime. ''Totally Spies!'' premiered on 3 November 2001 on ABC Family (now Freeform) in the U.S. before moving to Cartoon Network less than two years later. It premiered on TF1 in France on 3 April 2002, and on Teletoon in Canada on 2 September 2002. Since the series' debut, 156 episodes were broadcast, comprising six seasons and several specials. An upcoming seventh season, titled ''Tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nippon TV
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as , is the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned-and-operated by the which is a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company , itself a listed subsidiary of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest behind Sony. Nippon Television Holdings forms part of Yomiuri's main television broadcasting arm alongside Kansai region flagship Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, which owns a 6.4% share in the company. Nippon TV's studios are located in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and its transmitters are located in the Tokyo Skytree. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is sometimes contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX". It is also the first commercial TV station in Japan, and it has been broadcasting on Channel 4 since its inception. Nippon Television is the home of the syndication networks NNN (for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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