[miwa] the attic's cat is singing guitarissimo in her 3rd thread
 

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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.

Her latest B-side song, from 441 single, which is titled "Chasing hearts" is gonna be used for Fullmetal Alchemist new movie theme song!

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.


NEW RELEASE / INFO
On early November 2011, miwa gonna released a song "Futari no Saturday" which gonna be the theme song for Mezamashi TV in October, as the latest info, the song is gonna be released digitally.

For another info, miwa is confirmed to sing the theme song for SEGA Nintendo3DS' game, "Rhythm Kaito R", no song title and preview at the moment. The info is revealed on Tokyo Game Show 2011.

DVD/Bluray
miwa ~live tour 2011 "guitarissimo"~
2011.12.21 | SRBL-1502 / SRXL-24
01.ありえない!!
02.リトルガール
03.ハツナツ
04.you can do it!
05.friend～君が笑えば～
06.オトシモノ
07.don't cry anymore
08.ウソつき
09.hys-
10.Dear days
11.醒めない夢
12.chAngE
13.あなたがいないと世界はこんなにつまらない
14.Wake Up, Break Out
15.春になったら
-encore-
16.めぐろ川
17.441
18.僕らの未来
-double encore-
19.Chasing hearts
20.つよくなりたい

Single
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8th Single - 片想い (Kata Omoi - Unrequited love)
2012.02.01 | SRCL-7846/7484
1. 片想い / (Kata Omoi)
2 クレアデルネ / (Clair de Lune)
3. acoustic live tour “acoguissimo”メドレー
～441～Wake Up, Break Out!～don't cry anymore～Chasing hearts～FRiDAY-MA-MAGiC～chAngE～めぐろ川～
4. 片想い～instrumental～ / (Kata Omoi ~instrumental~)


DISCOGRAPHY

1st thread | 2nd Thread

congratz on the 2nd thread! ♥
regular edition first press left 6 copies at CDJapan

I have an advice, it would be better if you put the guitarissimo promo pics or cover outside the spoiler ;)

Anyway, there are some live performances from the last 2 weeks, but seems like nobody rip it.

okay dear mellody, edited~

OMG I love the covers. Particularlt the rainbow guitar *.*

nice for the 3rd thread

here is Haru ni Nattara at Music Fair
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8NEKVPC1

i haven't youtube links sorry.
thanks to fairylandjpop

and thanks HTMSD, really good first post

Tracklist : (From mixi)

1.ありえない!! (Arienai!!)
2.don't cry anymore
3.friend～君が笑えば～ (friend~kimi ga waraeba~)
4.春になったら (Haru ni Nattara)
5.hys-
6.オトシモノ (Otoshimono)
7.Dear days
8.醒めない夢 (Samenai Yume)
9.chAngE
10.めぐろ川～strings version～ (megurogawa~strings version~)
11.ハツナツ (Hatsunatsu)
12.リトルガール
13.僕らの未来 (Bokura no Mirai)
14.つよくなりたい (Tsuyoku Naritai)

Don't know if it's true.
...and the transition from chAngE to strings song would be so... weird.

The covers are very pretty!

6 pre-released songs, correct? Leaving us with 8 songs? w00t! (:

the cover with the cat *_*

the tracklisting is fine if it's true, all a-sides, megurogawa strings version and the rest of it are new tracks!

and "hys-", I wonder what does it means..

I'll assume this as a rumor until Sony gives out the OFFICIAL tracklist.

Well, the tracklist is official : http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arc...a/?info&365497

STRINGS VERSION! HALLELUJAH!

Finally we're all set!

Sony changed the layout of the website:
Here is one of the pic:
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^ nice picture :yes


I translated the titles:

01. No Way!!　　
02. don't cry anymore
03. friend～when you smile～
04. In Spring
05. hys-
06. Lost Things
07. Dear days
08. Endless Dream (lit: "dream I don't wake up from")
09. chAngE
10. Megurogawa＜strings version＞ (*the name of a river)
11. Early Summer
12. Little Girl
13. our future
14. I want to become stronger

It says 'hys-' is pronounced as 'hisu' (which means 'hysteria' is Japanese)

thanks to dissidia 012, I haven't opened forums for 3 days, and now the tracklist is official xD~

@Yoake & Tenshi
thanks so much for the info! xD

thanks for the translation tenshi.

thanks for the pic and trans :D
so hys- means hysteria, I see~

images extracted from official page (credit to RiP70R @ little-miwa)

thanks~ the cat looks so fat in HQ XD

i always love sony for announcing everything so fast(except the release date which takes them hundred years to announce it) :p