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Ishimine Airi’s Memorial Song “Minazuki no Hana”
Having recently performed with her group Aimamire, to an enthusiastic crowd at this year’s HUOA Okinawan Festival, singer Ishimine Airi (who we proclaimed to have one of the best voices in the industry) released a beautiful single on 6/23 as a tribute to Irei no Hi (Okinawa’s Memorial Day) titled “Minazuki no Hana” (June’s Flower).…
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i-Dushi’s “Kaanaa” Becomes “Kanae” as a Solo Artist
One of our favorite Okinawan pop duos, i-Dushi, went on hiatus at the end of last year after a tumultuous two years due to the pandemic and one of the things the artist formerly known as Kaanaa did was change her name to Kanae (which is her real name) to begin life as a solo…
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Okinawa Electric Girl Saya’s New Album “doomsday ~ The End ~”
If this amazing new album from Okinawa Electric Girl Saya is any indication of the quality of music we’ll see in 2022, buckle up as we’re in for a great year. She first came under our radar about a year ago — how can we not ignore her artist name?! Fast forward to 2022 and…
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Fukuda Yasuyuki’s 1st Single “Sennen Hanabi” Rerelease
Singer-songwriter Fukuda Yasuyuki will be rereleasing his 1st single “Sennen Hanabi” on August 10. The song is a beautiful ballad featuring his sanshin and acoustic guitar playing and the rerelease will have 4 tracks (the initial 2020 release featured the song only).
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BEGIN & #YouTubeMusicWeekend
BEGIN is participating in YouTube’s #YouTubeMusicWeekend and will be streaming their 25th anniversary concert “Sugar Cane Cable NETWORK TOUR 2015-2016 Ryōgoku Kokugikan” on July 17th 13:30 (Okinawa time). The band has been releasing a lot of YouTube content with special video clips for Uta no Hi and looks like they wasted no time in continuing…
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Turn All Weapons into Instruments
A recent web article on Hub Okinawa features a story on Kina Shoukichi and the peculiar release of his enka song “Fujisan Japan” — his first single in 39 years! The article discusses his new single as well as the single that started it all, “Haisai Ojisan” written when he was 13 years old. The…
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Nenes Announce Upcoming Album “Gajumaru” for June Release
Nenes has a new album that’s planned to be released on June 23rd! The album titled “Gajumaru” will be a self-cover album and we’re still awaiting details for the track list. Given that they have an enormous catalog of songs to choose from (1990 was the first generation Nenes — they’re currently on the 6th…
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Rinken Band & Tink Tink on YouTube
Listening to Rinken Band’s music is both nostalgic and emotional for me so the orchestra version of their song Funayare in the YouTube clip above pulls at my heartstrings. Uehara Tomoko’s voice is one-of-a-kind and the music Teruya Rinken composes is truly original. Like many musicians during the pandemic, concert tours have been canceled and…
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i-Dushi’s YouTube Channel Almost at 40K Subscribers!
As announced on the group’s Twitter, i-Dushi is closing in on 40,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel! At the time of their tweet, they were 500 away and today they’re less than 200 away! As mentioned in one of our earlier posts, they have been uploading amazing new content frequently so now is a great…
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