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Helene

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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:53 am Post subject: who sings in english only ?

hello everyone ! I'm sorry, I was away from the board for a while, I was very sick ( well, I'm still sick but doing a bit better now ). Well, my question is : Is there any Japanese singer who sings only and solely in English ? or at least : mostly in English ? thanx !

Xavio

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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:17 am Post subject:

And in french too ! ( L'arc-en-ciel say some words in french ) Japanesne are very conservative, they like their language, only Japanese... and some words or songs in english... That's good for them, we need it in France too cause we hear shit like willy densez, leslie, tragedie, magic systeme, lorie, priscilla... And the other are only english, linkin park, muse, manson, eminem, 2 pac, destiny child, britney, christina... And the good french, dead, or johnny , aznavour, sardou, mitchel, goldman, souchon...

Doramafan113

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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:21 am Post subject: Re: who sings in english only ?

Helene wrote:

hello everyone ! I'm sorry, I was away from the board for a while, I was very sick ( well, I'm still sick but doing a bit better now ).

Well, my question is :

Is there any Japanese singer who sings only and solely in English ?
or at least : mostly in English ?

thanx !

Welcome back. I hope you are feeling better.

I believe Utada Hikaru just released an English Album.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: Re: who sings in english only ?

Doramafan113 wrote:

Welcome back. I hope you are feeling better.

I believe Utada Hikaru just released an English Album.

Yup. She also had an english album under the name Cubic U.

Kirari Ililah

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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:44 am Post subject:

Kuraki Mai released her album "Secret of my Heart" as a US version....and she does have some songs all in english, like "Tonight I feel close to You" (from If I Believe album) or "The Rose -melody in the sky-" (from Perfect Crime album)

groink

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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:55 am Post subject:

Matsuda Seiko released a U.S. CD titled "Area 62". All the songs on it is sung in English. It has some really good dance tunes, but sales were really bad. It's just funny that a lady over 40 years old is still trying to put on an image of a 20-something year old. --- groink

kyouki

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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Post subject:

you can always try LIV.. "always promoting oshio manabu" .. hehe _________________

Akakage

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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject:

Hmm..Even V6 sings a song in English, yeah I recall a song called "One" a duet with Shoo from S.E.S and then..Da Pump did a cover version of "Circle of Life" Elton John and..they did not sound Engrishy at all. Ken Hirai release an album in which he sang mostly in English (with his perfect prononuciation) called "Ken's Bar" Mika Nakashima sang "Amazing Grace" in her first Album. Oh yeah, try Toshinobu Kubota, he also released and English Album..I forgot the name. hmm..who else? Noriyuki Makihara, Miwa Yoshida. Oh yeah Southern All Stars..they also sing in English too.

kyouki

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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject:

Akakage wrote:

Hmm..Even V6 sings a song in English, yeah I recall a song called "One" a duet with Shoo from S.E.S and then..Da Pump did a cover version of "Circle of Life" Elton John and..they did not sound Engrishy at all.

Ken Hirai release an album in which he sang mostly in English (with his perfect prononuciation) called "Ken's Bar"

Mika Nakashima sang "Amazing Grace" in her first Album. Oh yeah, try Toshinobu Kubota, he also released and English Album..I forgot the name. hmm..who else? Noriyuki Makihara, Miwa Yoshida. Oh yeah Southern All Stars..they also sing in English too.

there you go helene.. hehe.. you can always count on aka.. w00t!

she has this vast amount of knowlege.. kekeke..
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:05 am Post subject:

kyouki wrote:

there you go helene.. hehe.. you can always count on aka.. w00t!

she has this vast amount of knowlege.. kekeke..

DANG!!...hehee.. Beaten

I'm speechless here..

oh yeah..adding to the above..Shingo Katori did sing in English, the song was called It Can't Be and that can be found in DRINK SMAP album. Hmm..Oh yeah not to mention Chage and Aska, long time ago they sang "Something There" for the soundtrack of Hollywood movie "Street Fighter" ..Jeez I forgot, Love Psychedelico they also sing in English.

gingerelle

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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:40 am Post subject:

wow...what a impressive list....

Helene

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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:13 am Post subject:

Thanx to all for your answers ! Aka seems to know everything I need to know thank you Aka ! Yes, I have heard that mister Shingo can speak very good English . I've never heard him sing in English though ... oh yeah, that song "every you" by Smap ! I have it on a DVD ... PS: super contente de constater que je ne suis pas la seule frenchie sur ce forum !

Akakage

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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:38 am Post subject:

No problem Helene hehehe.

FedererExpress

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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:19 am Post subject:

A quite popular band that sings mostly (like 95%) in english is The Brilliant Green.

Lime-kun

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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 9:54 am Post subject:

Try Bonnie Pink. She's a jazz-ish type artists, and apprently she grew up in England or somewhere, so I'd say about 50% of her songs are in English. "Bonnie's Kitchen #2" is a completely English album, but other English songs of hers worth your notice are "I Just Want you to Be Happy", "Daisy", "not ready", "Hang-glider", "Mint", and "Evil and Flowers". Also, in her Japanese songs, she interjects so many english words it's not even funny.

eltinator

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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:15 am Post subject:

The Japanese singer that I always tout for people asking for English version of songs would be Melody. She's fluent in English and you can tell that her Japanese has an English accent to it as well. She's one great singer nonetheless. I also believe that Dragon Ash sings in English sometimes and Bennie K has pretty good English as well. I think Liv was mentioned already.

kyouki

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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject:

oh, i remember one more.. dreams come true.. i love their song "eternity" for the swan princess like the lyrics very much http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/dreams-come-true-eternity-2qvvdvr.html _________________

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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:48 am Post subject:

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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject:

If a Japanese singer sang only in English wouldn't that contradict the point of being a Japanese singer? That person would just be a singer who happens to be Japanese...

kyouki

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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject:

haha.. true, true.. might as well find some english artist who sings in english (jk) _________________

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