Annabel (born March 18, 1984) is an Argentine–Japanese

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singer signed to Lantis.

Biography

Although most personal information about her is unknown, in 2012, she revealed via letter her real name to a famous radio station in Tokyo, and that her real given name is also Annabel. She began her musical career in 2005. In 2006, she and singer

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formed the unit Binaria; to date, they have released 13 albums. In 2007, she formed another unit with singer Bermei.inazawa called anNina. As anNina, the duo performed the ending themes to the second and third seasons of ''

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''. In 2009 she started her career as a solo singer. Her first song that used to anime theme not commonly mentioned, but in 2009 "My Heaven" which used as the ending theme for anime television series

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catch so much attention. Due to her rise in popularity, she started performing theme songs for

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series. Her first solo single was "Anamnesis," which is used as the ending theme to the 2012 anime television series '' Another''; the single for "Anamnesis" was released on February 8, 2012. Annabel released her second single "Above Your Hand" on May 23, 2012, which is used as the ending theme for the anime television series ''

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''. Her third single, "Signal Graph," was released on July 25, 2012, which is used as the opening theme for the anime television series '' Love, Elections & Chocolate''. She released her first solo album ''Miniascape'' on November 28, 2012. Her sixth single "Small Worldrop" was released on April 24, 2013, used as the opening theme for anime ''

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''. The seventh single by Annabel was released on August 7, 2013, was used as the ending theme for the reboot of the anime ''

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''. Her eighth single "Yoru no Kuni" was released on August 26, 2015. The lead track Yoru no Kuni was used as the ending theme for the anime ''Gangsta.'' Also in 2015, she sang the vocals for the theme song of the 3DS game, 7th Dragon III Code:VFD of the 7th Dragon series. In 2016, she formed the band siraph with Masayuki Hasuo and Masaaki Yamasaki (former

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) and Yoshimasa Terui (haisuinonasa) who were the member of her

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Discography

Albums

Singles

Other album appearances

Independent releases

* ''Autonomia'' (March 9, 2008) * ''Noctiluca'' (December 31, 2010) * "Ignis" (May 1, 2011) * ''R.m.k'' (July 29, 2011) * "Memory Cycle of a Sentimentalist" (October 30, 2011) * "Debris" (April 30, 2012) * "syncretism" (2014) * "Country of the Night" (2015)

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Annabel Anime singers Japanese women pop singers Living people Lantis (company) artists Argentine people of Japanese descent Argentine emigrants to Japan Singers from Buenos Aires 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers 1984 births 21st-century Argentine singers