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Birthday: June 15th, 1990
Birthplace: Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Raised: Tokyo, Japan
Blood Type: A
Height: 149 cm
Instrument: Guitar & Piano
Favorite Sayng:
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
"千里の道も一歩から - senri no michi mo ippo kara"
Cherished Things: Friends & Family


Miwa (stylised as miwa) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single "don't cry anymore," used as the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi's theme song. miwa currently DJs a monthly radio show on All Night Nippon, miwa no All Night Nippon R (miwaのオールナイトニッポンR), every third Monday from 3:00am to 5:00am.

miwa was born in Hayama, Kanagawa, however moved to Tokyo at a young age. Since her father had a great love for a music, miwa naturally began to enjoy music as she grew up. miwa began writing songs at 15. She started self-learning how to play the guitar after she entered high school, but gave up and paid for professional lessons after finding she could not make a lot of progress learning by herself. Her High School had a ban on students having part-time jobs. Despite this, Miwa secretly worked, and eventually used these savings by her second year of high school to buy a Gibson J-45 guitar. After this, Miwa played live concerts mostly around Shimokitazawa in Tokyo and in Okinawa in the summer (her parents had a house there). Due to her high school also having a ban on students working in the entertainment business, she had to do these lives in secret (without even telling her school friends). In this time, Miwa released two self-published independent singles, "Song for You/Today" and "Soba ni Itai Kara" in 2007 and 2008.

miwa was signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan during her third year of high school. She debuted as an artist in 2010, while attending Keio University. Her debut single, "don't cry anymore," was chosen to be used for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi's theme song. The single was a minor commercial success, breaking the top 20 on Oricon's single charts and being certified by the RIAJ as selling 100,000 full length cellphone downloads a month after its release. In April 2010, the song won the award for best drama theme song at the 64th The Television Drama Academy Awards, beating out songs such as Arashi's "Troublemaker" and Mr. Children's "Hanabi."

miwa released her second single, リトルガール (Little Girl) in late June. Her third single, "chAngE," was the twelfth opening theme song for the anime BLEACH, and was a top 10 single. For the animated film adaptation of Eto Mori's novel COLORFUL, miwa covered two songs by famous Japanese artists. Yutaka Ozaki's 僕が僕であるために (Boku ga Boku de Aru Tame ni) was used as the film's image song, and The Blue Hearts' song, 青空 (Aozora) was used as the ending theme song of the film. Both songs were released as digital downloads on August 12, 2010. On February 23th 2011, she's releasing new single, 春になったら (Haru ni Natta ra) which is a tie-in to SUSUME DOCOMO! the song to encourage entrance exam taking students. A week after the release of the single, she's announced her very first album, guitarissimo. Which is gonna be released on March, 30th 2011.

miwa considers her favourite Western musicians to be Sheryl Crow, Deep Purple, Carole King, Avril Lavigne and Taylor Swift.[4] Her favourite Japanese musicians are Aiko, Angela Aki, Radwimps and Yuki.

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