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Browse piano sheets by Ray on Zen Virtual Piano. Ray was born in Sapporo and raised in Otaru, Hokkaido. She first worked as a gravure idol, performed at a singing audition event sponsored by Avex and Usen called a-motion2007, and released a DVD called Peach Collection, followed by a second DVD, Pure Smile, in 2008. An early life that took in gravure work, a pair of DVDs and an audition event suggests an artist who tried several doors before one opened. In an interview with Natalie, Ray said she failed a lot of auditions, usually getting quite far but stopping at runner-up or the judges’ special prize. She said that before her debut she sang many songs in a full, open-throated style, partly influenced by her mother’s love of Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. A DVD from an event in Hokkaido that she had given to an acquaintance as reference material was passed on to I’ve, the music production collective based in Hokkaido, and from there things began to move. Near-misses at auditions, a mother’s taste in singers and a DVD passed from hand to hand can be read as a path shaped by people along the way, with each handover opening a little more room. Anime News Network reported that she began to wonder whether she was capable of something besides singing, decided she wanted to pursue a new dream and consulted her staff about the decision. In an interview with Animate Times, Ray said her parents recommended an actors’ school and she began attending it as an elementary school pupil, at first only because they suggested it, then wanting to stand on a stage and sing, until she was attending two schools. In the Animate Times interview she also described gathering information from magazines and rereading the lyrics again and again to work out how to sing for an original anime she had no prior knowledge of. Rereading lyrics for a story she knew nothing about suggests singing treated as research, a craft of studying a song before voicing it. She took on the ending theme Recall for the TV anime Amnesia, which began broadcasting in January 2013; NBC Universal Music describes Recall as a strongly dark-toned song that showed a new side of her world. In the Natalie interview she said she talked at length with the arranger Takase, who called for something cuter, while she searched for a way of singing that differed from her pre-debut self yet could only be hers, which is how the song sign was made. She also wanted to sing ballads, so Altair was included, and she said that RAYVE is one disc packed with the things she wants to do. Searching for a voice that could only be hers, and wanting to sing ballads on top of that, can be read as one thread of restless curiosity in how she talks about her music.
Browse piano sheets by Ray on Zen Virtual Piano.
Ray was born in Sapporo and raised in Otaru, Hokkaido. She first worked as a gravure idol, performed at a singing audition event sponsored by Avex and Usen called a-motion2007, and released a DVD called Peach Collection, followed by a second DVD, Pure Smile, in 2008. An early life that took in gravure work, a pair of DVDs and an audition event suggests an artist who tried several doors before one opened.
In an interview with Natalie, Ray said she failed a lot of auditions, usually getting quite far but stopping at runner-up or the judges’ special prize. She said that before her debut she sang many songs in a full, open-throated style, partly influenced by her mother’s love of Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. A DVD from an event in Hokkaido that she had given to an acquaintance as reference material was passed on to I’ve, the music production collective based in Hokkaido, and from there things began to move. Near-misses at auditions, a mother’s taste in singers and a DVD passed from hand to hand can be read as a path shaped by people along the way, with each handover opening a little more room.
Anime News Network reported that she began to wonder whether she was capable of something besides singing, decided she wanted to pursue a new dream and consulted her staff about the decision. In an interview with Animate Times, Ray said her parents recommended an actors’ school and she began attending it as an elementary school pupil, at first only because they suggested it, then wanting to stand on a stage and sing, until she was attending two schools. In the Animate Times interview she also described gathering information from magazines and rereading the lyrics again and again to work out how to sing for an original anime she had no prior knowledge of. Rereading lyrics for a story she knew nothing about suggests singing treated as research, a craft of studying a song before voicing it.
She took on the ending theme Recall for the TV anime Amnesia, which began broadcasting in January 2013; NBC Universal Music describes Recall as a strongly dark-toned song that showed a new side of her world. In the Natalie interview she said she talked at length with the arranger Takase, who called for something cuter, while she searched for a way of singing that differed from her pre-debut self yet could only be hers, which is how the song sign was made. She also wanted to sing ballads, so Altair was included, and she said that RAYVE is one disc packed with the things she wants to do. Searching for a voice that could only be hers, and wanting to sing ballads on top of that, can be read as one thread of restless curiosity in how she talks about her music.
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Ray was born in Sapporo and raised in Otaru, Hokkaido.
She performed Recall as the ending theme of the TV anime Amnesia, which began broadcasting in January 2013; NBC Universal Music describes it as a strongly dark-toned song that showed a new side of her world.
She said that RAYVE is one disc packed with the things she wants to do, and that she also wanted to sing ballads, so Altair was included.