I hope there will be some KOTOKO fans to meet her at the convention and show her that some people do know about her outside of Japan! I'd love to see her myself but that will probably not happen anytime soon - unless she suddenly starts finding Europe extremely fascinating.
Hot news: Mami Kawada just announced her fourth album today! "SQUARE THE CIRCLE" is out 8/8/2012 and contains Not buts!, See visionS and Serment plus 10 brand new songs. And that's just the regular edition; the limited edition comes with a blu-ray disc containing... actually, I think I'll just
let CDJapan do the talking for me here.
In celebration of the news, here's a snippet of Mami's unreleased song 光芒 (Koubou), which was used as the ending of Shakugan no Shana's very final episode. I hope we will get a full version of Koubou on SQUARE THE CIRCLE.