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and

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Biography

Sakamoto provided a cover of "Miu" for the January 29, 2020

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tribute album ''Parade III ~Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick~''

Discography

Albums

* ''DAWN PINK'' (September 29, 1999) * ''Harmonious'' (May 24, 2006) * ''Oboro no Kanata, Akari no Kehai'' (December 12, 2007) – (Produced by

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) * ''Zoy'' (November 5, 2008) * ''PHANTOM Girl'' (May 19, 2010) (Produced by The Shanghai Restoration Project) * ''HATSUKOI'' (May 18, 2011) (SRP) * ''I'm yours!'' (August 8, 2012) (SRP) * ''Waving Flags'' (March 5, 2014) * ''Sing with me II'' (with Cantus) (December 7, 2016)

Mini-Albums

* ''aquascape'' (November 26, 1998) * ''sorato (Masakatsu Takagi x Sakamoto Miu)'' (October 10, 2007) * ''iTunes Live from Tokyo'' (January 23, 2008) * ''Sing with me'' (with Cantus) (June 22, 2016)

Best albums

* miusic ~The best of 1997–2012~ (June 26, 2013)

Live albums

* LIVE Waving Flags (March 18, 2015)

Singles

* "Poppoya" (May 26, 1999) – composed and arranged by

, with lyrics by

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* "in aquascape" (September 8, 1999) – written by Miu Sakamoto, composed and arranged by

* "I'll believe the look in your eyes" (February 9, 2000) – written by Miu Sakamoto, composed by Yuka Kawamura, and arranged by

* "beautiful" (July 26, 2000) – written by Miu Sakamoto, composed and arranged by

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* "Blank" (April 11, 2001) – written by Miu Sakamoto, composed and arranged by Toru Okada * "15fun" (May 23, 2001) – written by Miu Sakamoto, composed and arranged by

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* "Kaze Hikaru" (October 24, 2001) – written by Miu Sakamoto, composed and arranged by

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* "sleep away" (April 24, 2002) – written by Miu Sakamoto, composed and arranged by

* "Kumanbachi ga tonde kita" (November 20, 2002) – written by

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and composed by

* "

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" (November 16, 2005) – composed by

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, with lyrics by

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Digital Singles

* 005.09.12Never Ending Story (CM Version) * 010.04.14Phantom Girl's First Love * 010.05.19Phantom Girl's First Love -Classical Remix- * 010.11.24Hajimari Hajimari (はじまりはじまり; Beginning Beginning) * 011.05.18Precious * 012.07.04Anata to Watashi no Aida ni Aru Mono Subete Ai to Yobu (あなたと私の間にあるもの全て愛と呼ぶ) * 012.09.12I'm yours (Taan Newjam Remix)

Participation in Vocaloid

Miu Sakamoto is the voice provider for

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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 ...

Mew. Mew was a starter Vocaloid released alongside the

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software, with VY1V3. Mew's first single, "Line", debuted in ''The Vocaloid'', an album produced by Yamaha.

References

External links

Official blog

Official website

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