Maaya Sakamoto Fans!
 

There are so many JPop singers and artists out there, but one of them who will always stand out for me is Maaya Sakamoto. True, Sakamoto-san isn't exactly a J-Pop singer like Ayu or Hikkie, but she is defintely my favorite singer (folowed by Ayu!!). i really love her voice; its so beautiful and uplifting.
Not only that, Sakamoto-san is a seiyuu and sings for anime. For the ever-so-popular Escaflowne series, she played Hitomi, the main character (in fact, she was only 15 years old then). Moreover, Sakamoto-san also wrote and composed few of her songs.
As you can see, she is very talented person.
For fans out there, what is it about Maaya Sakamoto that u like?

I love her "Tune the rainbow". It's a wonderful ballad, and one of the first japanese pop-songs I heard.

Correction, Maaya never composed any of her songs - Kanno Yoko (and more composers, for "yuunagi LOOP") composed all her songs.

i love a lot of her song
she has a nice voice
empty the pocket is nice too

yay! i love her songs soo much~
I like Yubiwa the best :yes Hero, Santuary are also nice~ are there any songs sung by her similar to those? =O

Um.. I like her voice? And the fact that Yoko Kanno composed everything up until now? Another grey day in the big blue world.. great song.

my favorites are Vector, garden of everything (although she isn't really the main vocals for this...), T-Shirt, the entired Yuunagi Loop CD (best Maaya album ever, definately happy with this buy), Sora wo Miro, Park Amsterdam (the whole story)....sooo many goood songs, there's too many to list!

I love Maaya Sakamoto!
She is my absolute favourite j-pop singer. The first one I ever heard........I still remember the day when I first stumbled across Kaze ga Fuku Hi.......to this day it's still my favourite song of hers. :)

I just about threw a fit when I found out she was doing a bunch of North American performances - ALL IN THE STATES! :irked
Apparently Canadians are to busy trying to survive perpetual winter to enjoy such frivolous things are music, or anything other kind of entertainment. I swear I'm not bitter at all :)

But yeah... I love Maaya so much. :love

Personally, my most favorite song by Maaya is Tune The Rainbow. (For Sakamoto fans, you must hear this song if you haven't!)
The tune and the lyrics is very, very beatiful. I have never listened to a song as much as that!
The first Japanese song I ever heard was Yubiwa. ^_^
Also, I apologize for the mistake...i meant to write that she also wrote some of the songs...gomen.
I KNOW!! i wish i could go to one of her concerts!!

Right now, i decided that i could take on some requests for you guys, if you wanted any songs that u haven't heard yet by Sakamoto-san. Here's the list of all songs that i have:
Active Heart
Alkaloid
Aoi Hitomi
Bike
Blind Summer Fish
Bokura no Rekishi (.wma)
Call Your Name
Cloud 9
Dive
Gravity
Gift
Garden of Everything
Hikari Are
Hikari no Naka e
Honey Bunny
Hemisphere **
I Throw a Vase from the Top of a Hill
Kimi Ni Ai ni Ikou
Kiseki no Umi *
Kaze ga Fukui
Kimidori
Light of Love
Loop
Mameshiba (has ** in .zip)
Midori no Hane
Ongaku
Pilot
Purachina
Sanctuary
Shima Shima
Shippo no Uta
Tune the Rainbow
Tomodachi
Teens
Vector
Yucca
Yoake no Kaze Kikinagara
Yoake no Octave
Yubiwa
Yubiwa 23carat
You Are Not Alone
Yakusoku wa Iranai *
The ones w/ * has a karaoke. The ones w/ **, i have the instrumental.
(i prefer saying that karaoke has background vocals and instrumentals don't).

Some songs I recommend are: Blind Summer Fish (beautiful vocals!! so sad though),Midori no Hane (its short, but nice like Sanctuary), Cloud 9 (wow!! no words to describe this; i love this song!), Mameshiba, & Hikari Are (very upbeat and consoling).

Mameshiba: http://rapidshare.de/files/7974745/mameshiba.mp3.html
Blind Summer Fish: http://rapidshare.de/files/7974757/b...rfish.mp3.html
Hikari Are: http://rapidshare.de/files/7974860/hikariare.ra.html
Cloud 9: http://rapidshare.de/files/7974985/cloud9.mp3.html
I think that those who liked Tune the Rainbow will also like Mameshiba and Blind Summer Fish.

I don't have all songs of Ayu but I have all songs of Maaya Sakamoto.Yeah, she's that great. My favorites are Fad, Chibikko Folk, Kuuki to Hoshi, Aoi Hitomi, Another gray day in the big blue world, Getsuyou no Asa, Gathering Rain. Though I don't think she'd be this great if it weren't for Yoko Kanno. I mean, I really hate her Whoops! stuff.

ooo!
Midori no Hane and Tune the Rainbow plz chibi_sunny! =D

Could you upload the song sora-kara recommended? (Kaze ga Fukui) :yes

i know what you mean! we aren't living in igloos fending off polar bears from eating us to death! (atleast, i'm not...others may though :o)]


but yes, maaya is great +++

(oh, wow, i've turned this into a request thread!)
Anyway, here u go, s.k.y and *Petit*:

Midori no Hane: http://rapidshare.de/files/7916105/midorinohane.ra.html

Tune the Rainbow: http://rapidshare.de/files/7943877/t...inbow.mp3.html

Kaze ga Fuku Hi: http://rapidshare.de/files/7944204/kazegafukui.mp3.html
Enjoy!

THanks! =)

OMG i LOOOOOOVE Maaya! She has the sweetest voice!

My favourite songs from her are- Getsuyou no Asa, park amsterdam (the whole story) and Here!!!

^_^
i'm glad to see that there are so many fans of Sakamoto-san here!!
(i was just worried that people may not really know her w/ all of the other major artists. She is really talented though).

yay!! thnx for upload =D

But of course we would know her! It seems that a lot of people who listen to j-music got into it because of anime, and Maaya has done some themes for somereally famous anime. (Which we're all pretty lucky for since she's so good!)

Wow, thanx for the upload, I love her! and I've been looking for tune the rainbow forever. thanks!

~xiaou