(born February 19, 1979) is a Japanese musician. From 1995 to 2005 she was the
bass player
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and vocalist of the indie rock band
Supercar
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Vocalist and bassist for the Japanese rock band “Supercar”
/ref> She released her first solo record in 2006.
Biography
Originating from Aomori Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the eas ...
, Miki Furukawa placed an advertisement in a local magazine seeking fellow musicians in 1995, leading to the formation of the rock band Supercar.post-punk
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, psychedelic rock and noise, whereas ''Very'' (2010) was a mostly electropop-oriented record. In December 2009, software developer AH Software used voice samples from Furukawa to create the Vocaloid
is a singing voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project led by Kenmochi Hideki at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, in 2000 and was not originally intended to b ...
voice library SF-A2 Miki. In 2011, Miki Furukawa and former Supercar bandmate Koji Nakamura
is a Japanese musician who is most famous for being the lead singer/songwriter in the Japanese band Supercar.
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formed the band called LAMA (Japanese band), Lama. Lama jump-started their formation with a single entitled "Spell", which has been used as an opening theme for the anime ''No. 6
''No. 6'' is a Japanese novel series written by Atsuko Asano and published by Kodansha in nine volumes between October 2003 and June 2011. A manga adaptation drawn by Hinoki Kino was serialized in Kodansha's ''Aria'' magazine from January 201 ...
''. The single "Fantasy" was used as the ending theme for the anime ''Un-Go
is a 2011 anime television series produced by Bones which aired on Fuji TV's noitamina program block between October 13, 2011 and December 22, 2011. Based on the noted Japanese intellectual and novelist Ango Sakaguchi's novel , the series ...
''.
Discography
Singles
* "Coffee & SingingGirl!!!" (June 21, 2006)
* "Psycho America" (March 21, 2007)
* "Candy Girl" (February 20, 2008)
* "Saihate" (December 2, 2009)
Albums
* ''Mirrors'' (July 19, 2006)
* ''Bondage Heart'' (April 23, 2008)
* ''Bondage Heart Remixes'' (May 13, 2009)
* ''Very'' (February 17, 2010)
* ''Moshi Moshi, Kikoemasuka?'' (April 2, 2014)
References
External links
Official Site
Twitter
cinra.net interview (Japanese)
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1979 births
Japanese women musicians
Ki/oon Music artists
Living people
Musicians from Aomori Prefecture
People from Hachinohe
Japanese rock bass guitarists
Women bass guitarists
Vocaloid voice providers
Japanese women rock singers
20th-century women musicians
20th-century bass guitarists
20th-century Japanese women singers
20th-century Japanese singers
21st-century women musicians
21st-century bass guitarists
21st-century Japanese women singers
21st-century Japanese singers