Saori@destiny was a Japanese electropop and house/techno artist produced by Oonishi Terukado, who also produces Aira Mitsuki. She began performing street lives in Tokyo, Japan, in the first half of 2007, and was signed with D-topia Entertainment, releasing her first indie single that December. In March 2008 she made her 'major debut' from the same label, but this time distributed by Victor Entertainment. Saori@destiny (born June 10. 2007 with the single 'My Boy' and has released two studio albums and two mini-albums to date, named Japanese Chaos. In 2012, Saori@destiny had announced she was going on hiatus. Saori@destiny was a Japanese electropop and house/techno artist produced by Oonishi Terukado, who also produces Aira Mitsuki. She began performing street lives in Tokyo, Japan, in the first half of 2007, and was signed with D-topia Entertainment, releasing her first indie single that December. In March 2008 she made her 'major debut' from the same label, but this time distributed by Victor Entertainment. In 2012, Saori@destiny had announced she was going on hiatus. Two years later she resurfaced as her new stage name Saoriiiii and announced her first performance in over two years on September 15th, 2014. Her songwriting included themes of suicide, depression, experimentation, and drugs. This contrasting sound, a young, 'cute', Japanese girl singing about dark human issues to upbeat electronica, had contributed to her underground success as an artist in Japan. She has an account on Twitter, which you can find here. Official Website: http://www.saori-destiny.com. After having returned from my eye-opening Japanese Language School graduation trip in 1981, I became a convert for Hiromi Iwasaki's(岩崎宏美) music due to her cover of the Blue Comets' 'Sumire Iro no Namida'( すみれ色の涙.Violet-Coloured Tears). The next year, it was my brother's turn on the graduation trip and so I asked him to bring back an album or a single record by her, and so he got me this single. I always loved the young Iwasaki's long straight black hair during the 80s. 'Madonna Tachi no Lullaby'( The Madonnas' Lullaby) originally started out with very humble beginnings. It didn't even start out as a full song. Where to vietnamese karaoke songs for. It had been written just as a short sung accompaniment to the end credits of 'Kayo Suspense Gekijo'( 火曜サスペンス劇場.The Tuesday Night Suspense Movie) on NTV, but when viewers overwhelmingly flooded the station for requests of this song, Iwasaki's 28th single was born. I have heard the original version for the end credits, and the intro and the middle instrumental struck me as tepid, so I am glad that the arrangers gave the official single a more urban contemporary punch-up with Rhodes Piano and electric guitar. The little song that could was released in May 1982, and went to the top of the charts for four weeks straight before finishing the year as the 3rd-ranked song for the year, ultimately selling 1.3 million records. In addition, it won the Grand Prize for that year's Japan Kayo Awards. There were also expectations for it winning a similar prize for the Japan Record Awards. And that's where the controversy came in. Toshiyuki Kimori(木森敏之) composed 'Madonna Tachi no Lullaby' with Keisuke Yamakawa(山川啓介) as the lyricist. As they were accepting their accolades for creating Iwasaki's latest hit, a very unhappy American composer, John Scott, who had been responsible for composing the soundtrack for the 1980 sci-fi movie, 'The Final Countdown', stormed into Japan accusing Kimori of plagiarizing parts from a couple of tracks for that movie (those tracks are in the video above). His protests against Kimori were enough so that there was a hasty revision in the credits. John Scott is now officially listed as co-composer. Those expectations for the song to receive the Grand Prize at The Japan Record Awards plummeted out of existence. All this happened before the single's official release in May; actually, it was supposed to have been released in April but all of the chaos forced a month's delay. Still in the end, 'Madonna Tachi no Lullaby' is recognized as one of Iwasaki's representative works, and because of its origins as the ending theme of that Tuesday night suspense drama, she was called upon again to provide further ending themes for the program for the next few years after that. First, forgive me for my bad english. And second, your blog is great, I'm delighted.
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