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We’re in Love with Kizuki Minami’s “Ranman”
The song “Ranman” from Amami-Oshima’s Kizuki Minami has been on our heavy rotation playlist for days now and it’s so awesome. The song is the title track from an album she released this year and while it treads more on the J-pop wave, there are a couple of shimauta tracks. Overall it’s an amazing release…
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Canae’s New Single “Usukaji” & Lead Actress!
Canae from i-Dushi recently released a new digital single “Usukaji (潮風-うすかじ-)” and get this, it’s the ending theme of a film she’s starring in! Yup, not only is she a talented artist of classical and shimauta pops, we can now add acting too! The film is “Nandekane Tsurumi” (Tsurumi is a ward in Yokohama Japan…
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YU-KA on The First Take (YouTube)
Singer-songwriter YU-KA continues her dominance on the new music scene with an appearance on the prestigious YouTube channel The First Take! YU-KA performs her song “Hoshizukiyo (Starry Night)“. Episode 330 welcomes YU-KA, a singer-songwriter fluent in both Japanese and English, to THE FIRST TAKE for the first time. She will sing “Starry Night,” a song…
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Gus Hokama’s Lovely Song “Jikuu no Hana”
I hope you enjoyed the two days of Uchinaa culture with HUOA’s 2021 Virtual Okinawan Festival (and if you haven’t, there’s always the archives). We were treated to a lot of amazing local talent and a few special guests and one that came to our attention is singer-songwriter Gus Hokama from Argentina and his song…
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