, known as , is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, originating from

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Biography

Her debut release was the 1978 ''Oribia o Kikinagara'' (While Listening to Olivia), written by

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. Her song "Cat's Eye" was used as the first opening theme for the eponymous 1983

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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

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songs used as an anime theme song. In 2017, she performed this song live at the opening of the touring ice show

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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 ''

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''. 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 receptions. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Anri's albums were bestsellers. She has had highly successful tours—one with an attendance of almost 100,000—and toured Hawaii for the first time in 1987. She sang the closing theme for the

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. In 2002, she began collaborating with

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

guitarist

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, who produced her 2002 LP ''Smooth Jam – Quiet Storm''. With the renewed popularity of

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, and her songs having been sampled by many new artists of the

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and

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genres, Anri has also enjoyed new popularity outside of Japan.

Discography

Live Concerts

Albums

Compilations

References

External links

* * Official Website. {{DEFAULTSORT:Anri 1961 births Japanese women pop singers Japanese women singer-songwriters Japanese singer-songwriters Living people People from Yamato, Kanagawa Musicians from Kanagawa Prefecture Anime singers Fantasy on Ice guest artists 20th-century Japanese women singers 20th-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers