Nanase Aikawa (con Marty Friedman) - Breake Out

Nanase Aikawa (相川 七瀬, Aikawa Nanase?, February 16, 1975 -) is a Japanese musician known for employing a variety of musical styles, most notably rock. She publishes her music under the Motorod label, a division of Avex Group.

History

Nanase Aikawa was born on February 16, 1975, in Osaka, Japan. Throughout her school years, Nanase had sung and participated in a several singing competitions, which brought her to the attention of a well-known music producer Tetsuro Oda. At the age of 15, she dropped out of school to be trained by Oda. At the age of 20 she released her first single, Yume Miru Shoujo ja Irarenai on 8 November 1995.

Personal life

Aikawa married on 16 February 2001 and gave birth to her first child, a boy, on 6 September 2001. She gave birth to her second child, also a boy, on 9 September 2007. She is good friends (as stated in an interview) with Yumi from PUFFY.

Career
The cover for the album "Red" and the CD from the album.
The cover for the album "Red" and the CD from the album.

After she released her first single on 8 November 1995, she released three more singles, and then her first full album Red in 1996, which sold more than two million copies in its first month. That album won her an invitation to perform on Kōhaku Uta Gassen, a New Year's Eve singing contest between male and female teams of popular singers sponsored by NHK (one of Japan's television networks).

Since then, she has released about one album each year, plus an average of three mini- or maxi-singles. Her second album, Paradox, was released in July 1997, selling 1.8 million copies, coinciding with her first concert tour Live Emotion '97 (consisting of 20 concert dates, and attracting a total of 65,000 fans, according to Avex).

July 1998 saw her third album Crimson, and another concert tour with over 40 concert dates. Her 1999 release, I.D. was a compilation album, but it debuted at number one on the rock chart, her fourth consecutive album to be released at the number one slot.

In 2001, she also released a 'mini-album' (sometime between a full album and a single) with only 7 tracks called the Last Quarter of uncharacteristically soft ballad-style music, recorded during her later months of pregnancy.

It wasn't until 2003 that she released another album, another compilation, called ID: 2.

At the 11th Annual Japan Gold Disc Awards, Nanase's album Red was voted the Best Album (Japanese Rock and Folk music, female vocalist category). Her album Paradox was also voted Best Album of the Year at the 12th Annual Japan Gold Disc Awards.

Band Members

A list of her band for the R.U.O.K?! album and with whom she is currently touring:

Guitar: Marty Friedman (ex. Megadeth)
Guitar: Tomoaki Ishizuka, more commonly known as Pata from X Japan
Drums: 真矢 (trans. Shinya Yamada) (ex. Luna Sea)
Bass: 'Crazy' Cool Joe (ex. Dead End)
Keyboards: "D.I.E" (ex. Hide with Spread Beaver)
In February 2004, three years after her last original album and many singles, she released 7 Seven. An album devoted to feelings relating to music and color, with each song dedicated to a certain color. Since then she has released four more singles.

In July 2004 her song BYE BYE was covered by UK singer Jennifer Ellison.

As of August 2004, Nanase Aikawa has released six albums, plus two compilation albums and the mini-album, a total of 24 singles, and no less than three separate concerts and two music video collections on video and DVD.

A year later, in February 2005, she released The First Quarter mini-album. This album focused more on ballads and soft music than her well-known rock edge. In November of that same year she released R.U.O.K?!, a mini-album with seven songs. In July 2007, Nanase Aikawa began work on her new album.

Her first music release while working on this album is as part of a limited unit called "Crimson-FANG" for the soundtrack of Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World, having performed on the soundtrack on Kamen Rider Blade in 2004. The single for, "Circle of Life", is to be released on August 6, 2008.

Subsequently, Aikawa released her first digital single off her new album entitled Prism. Which was released May 24, 2008.

source: wikipedia.org

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Japanese
• rock/pop
• Marty
• Friedman
• Tomoaki
• Ishizuka(guitar)
• 真矢(drums)
• Crazy'
• Cool
• Joe(bass)
• D.I.E(Keyboards)

[estebanzr7]

why Marty?

WHYYYYY?????

[gabi326jjk]

OMG marty and pata xD!!!!!!!!!!!!

[93cristhian]

J-POP IN JAPAN = PUNK ROCK IN THE WORLD

J-ROCK IN JAPAN = PSYCHEDELIC ROCK IN THE WORLD

J-METAL IN JAPAN= HEAVY/SPEDD/THRASH/POWER IN THE WORLD

JAPAN RULES

[Matuterocks]

there are also other videos of the complete show

[Matuterocks]

@SantomPh theres this video of the show in which Marty appears and there´s Kerry King as special guest

[theultimatexperience]

As a Megadeth fan... I am disapointed.

[rampage222555]

@Takunrsx he likes all kinds of music. His album tokyo jukebox was the only jpop album, and the covers on it were pure genius. And hes having fun doing stuff in japan. since he left megadeth hes done alot of collabs, had his own tv show in japan, done punk album(future addict), a metal album(loudspeaker), a jpop album(tokyo jukebox), and something like a techno album with guitar(bad dna which is awesome). another megadeth album is impossible with dave retiring soon.

[SantomPh]

@Takunrsx according to him he was burned out after Megadeth, plus Japanese pop is much more rock-oriented; Aikawa Nanase is referred to as a 'rock singer' in some places. He made a good move- he's had plenty of work for Aikawa and other music stars as well as doing TV shows etc. His solo albums are very much metal, especially the last two- check out the cover of Maximum The Hormone's "Tsume Tsume Tsume" and tell me he's not metal.... (check out the original too!)

[Metallica5251]

Marty Turned Gay ;(

Whats the song about? lol

[Toolrocks13]

this is disgusting

[xXGeNe5i5Xx]

Marty playing pop is just wrong, I need to go listen to the whole rust in peace to assure myself he'll come back to metal...

[LXFgtr]

So sad... there's not even a solo in this song. And poor Marty... he's like "her daddy on guitar"... the guy's almost 50 and he's playing this, after all he's done so far. I just don't get it.