The first song is a related to my last Spill post as this song Rolling Star was written as the fifth opening theme for the anime Bleach. I have chosen five songs for you to try and give a feel for her work. Since then, she has released four albums which have all been very high quality and all have been platinum discs.

She wrote and performed the theme for the TV drama “Fukigen Na Gene” and because of the exposure due to the success of the drama the track “Feel My Soul” sold over 100,000 copies and began her career as a major artist. It was a year later in 2005, she was invited to write a song for a drama series. Her first track to be released was It’s Happy Line which was limited to 2000 copies and only released in her home town, but it gained some attention. While studying at the music school she made money by busking at the railway station in her home town, which in interviews, she has said was a great education in performing and it confirmed her belief that music was what she wanted to do. The early influence of her was the band Bianco Nero from her home town of Fukuoka and it was this band that advised her to leave high school and attend a music school.

She was encouraged by her mother to keep a journal of her feelings, and she converted many of the journal entries to poems and also songs and this was how she began to write songs.

She had to work part time in High School to help pay for tuition. Yui did not have an easy life as she was from a single parent family and quite poor. I have not given all the words of the songs, I just wanted to give you an idea of the themes.īut first a little background. Yui is my favourite singer songwriter and I would like to share a small selection of her songs with you and to try to advocate her to you by explaining some of the lyrics and the context of the songs.

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