How did some Japanese singers become famous?

Japanese music culture is distinguished by a huge number of popular performers and a specific repertoire. The peculiarity of Japanese songs is the impossibility of literally translating texts into Russian. Japanese singers not only independently write and perform their own songs, are part of various vocal groups, but also voice virtual characters. There is a separate category - completely virtual executors. Which Japanese singers are most popular? How did they become famous?

Popular singers in Japan

Many Japanese singers have become popular due to the successful sounding of famous virtual heroes. Utaqa Hikaru became famous for her song to the video game Kingdom Hearts. She released 11 albums in English and Japanese. The most famous in our country are "The Devil Inside", "Exodus", "This is the One", "Come Back To Me", "You Make Me".

Japanese singer can also become an example of style and fashion legislators, the list is headed by Ayumi Hamasaki. She not only earned the title "Empress of Pop", but, despite a small increase, she became the face of the Panasonic trademark, having participated in the advertising campaign of the Lumix camera line.

Singer Itano Tomomi entered the popular AKB48 band in 2005, overtaking 7924 contenders. At that time, the girl was only 14 years old. Now Itano Tomomi is a famous actress, solo singer and fashion model, she starred in the films "School" Magiska "," Bad Jay guys. "

Japanese performers of Russian origin

There are Japanese singers not of local origin. Popular in Japan was Olga Yakovleva. It is known under the pseudonym Origa. A girl came to Japan in 1990 by invitation, as a representative of Russian culture at a festival in Sapporo. After a successful debut, Road & Sky offered cooperation. Origa remained in Japan, eventually started a solo career, successfully voiced various animation projects and video games. Many people know the song Mizu no Madoromi in Russian and Japanese for the series "Fantastic Children", a song for the Princess Arete anime called "Red Sun", and Inner Universe for the anime "Ghost in the Armor: Single Syndrome".

Japanese performers of the TECHNO world

A special place in the rating is occupied by popular Japanese singers of the TECHNO world. These are completely virtual artists who have their own repertoire, albums and fans. So far, one singer-hologram has been created. It became the property and pride of Crypton Media. The voice of this singer is original, created artificially. To distinguish by ear a virtual singer from a real artist is easy, it is not voiced by a person. The singer's voice is independently synthesized from the original human voice using the Yamaha vocaloid program. This is Miku Hatsuna. Her songs occupy the leading positions of the charts. The virtual singer collects huge halls. She sings only live, and at this time on stage a hologram dances. The dance and movements are close to the real movements of the person on the stage, each performance is worked out choreographically and vocally by the developers. The hologram itself continues to improve as technology develops. Japanese singer holograms are the future of the country.