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Yuki’s Vocalists

This page lists the vocalists who have performed songs written by Yuki Kajiura.

Projects

Kalafina - A project started by Yuki Kajiura in 2007 for the main themes of the seven films in the Kara no Kyoukai series. The first two vocalists revealed were Keiko Kubota and Wakana Ootaki, both vocalists in the FictionJunction project. Later, Maya and Hikaru were identified as the third and fourth vocalists.
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FictionJunction Project - Yuki’s solo project which involves Kaori Oda, Yuuka Nanri, Asuka Kato, Wakana Ootaki and Keiko Kubota. Their music has been heard as OP/ED and insert themes of Tsubasa Chronicle, El Cazador, Elemental Gelade and other animes.
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See-Saw - Began in 1993 as a three-member group consisting of Yukiko Nishioka, Chiaki Ishikawa and our Yuki Kajiura. In April 1994, Yukiko left the group to continue her writing career. From 1995 until 2001, the group was separated. Officially, the group is still in activity but their last work is the single Kimi wa Boku ni Niteiru (as the 4th ending theme of the anime Gundam Seed Destiny) released in August 2005. Since this date, Chiaki wrote 5 singles and one solo album: Boku wa Mada Nanimo Shiranai.
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Individual Vocalists

Bindiger, Emily
Born May 10, 1955

Yuki’s most prominent English vocalist. She lives in New York, and performs in an a-capella group known as The Accidentals. She has been heard in .hack//sign, on Fiction, and in El Cazador. A song (the ending theme) heard in the flash story ‘Xenosaga: a Missing Year’ published by Namco is thought to have been sung by Emily, but no soundtrack record exists. Emily performed with Yuki Kajiura on her visit to Anime Expo in 2003. Official Site

Chiba, Saeko
千葉紗子. Born August 26, 1977

Originally a part of Tiaraway along with Nanri Yuuka. Yuki has been writing and producing Saeko’s albums for several years, and is most well known for her most recent single (2004), Sayonara Solitia, the ending theme for Chrno Crusade which can also be heard on her album, ‘Everything’. Official Site

Cumberbatch, Tulivu-Donna Lynn
Birth date unknown

Tulivu is her African name, and her father, the baritone saxophone player Harold Cumberbatch named her Donna Lynn. She recieved a professional formation, sang in choirs in school and church. She sang in West Africa, Europe, Canada, Carribbean but mostly in New York. Donna Lynn sang Lullaby for Yuki in the japanese version of FICTION but also for another “composer”: Yoko Kanno. Now, Tulivu is working with the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, the Ray Abrams Big Band, the Cliff Smalls Septet, the Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble, and her Magnificent Trio.
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Curtis, Emily
Birth date unknown

Dorn, Margaret
Birth date unknown

Leader of The Accidentals, wherein Emily Bindiger belongs to, Margaret sings, writes and composes music. She does a lot of live performances with her group. She performed the background vocals for other artists notably in the album One Heart sung by Celine Dion. She is the choir director and a soloist for the Downtown Messiah. We can hear her voice in Xenosaga II Movie scene soundtrack. Official Site

Hikita, Kaori
引田香織. Born March 5, 1986

Japanese singer, she began her career with two singles composed by Yuki: Michiyuki (ending theme of Loveless) and Egao no Wake (opening theme of Shonen Onmyouji). She sings the ending themes of the OVA Tales of Symphonia and the anime Hatenkou Yuugi (Dazzle). Her most recent performance is the ending theme of the anime Amatsuki, Namae no Nai Michi composed by Yuki Kajiura. Official Blog

Hisakawa, Aya
久川綾. Born November 12, 1968

Inoue, Marina
井上麻里奈. Born January 20, 1985

Winner of Sony’s “Gonna be a Star” contest. The prize was a starring role in the OVA ‘Le Portrait de Petite Cossette’ and getting to sing the ending and insert songs ‘Houseki’ and ‘Ballad’, written by Yuki Kajiura. Since then she has voiced many minor roles in various animes.Official Site

Ishikawa, Chiaki
石川智晶. Born March 29, 1969

Changed her name from 石川知亜紀 (same pronunciation) in 2005. She is the singing half of the current See-Saw. Her voice has been heard extensively in the background music of the .hack// series, as well as two ending themes for Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny. Recently, she’s been working solo on singles such as ‘Uninstall’ from Bokurano, and has also written songs for other vocalists. She attended Anime Expo 2007 where she performed solo. Official Site

Isono, Tarako
磯野鱈子. Born December 17, 1960

Itoh, Eri
伊東恵里. Birth date unknown

First collaborated with Yuki on the Tsubasa Chronicle Soundtracks, and later heard in Xenosaga III. While working with Yuki, she tends to have a multi-layered choirlike voice. Her wailing solo voice can be heard in ‘Sona Mi Areru Ec Sancitu’ from Sega Saturn game Panzer Dragoon Saga, and ‘Anu Orta Veniya’ from Panzer Dragoon Orta for Xbox. Her website and blog formerly located at eri-itoh.com disappeared some time in 2006, and is now located on nifty.com. Official Blog

Kaida, Yuriko
貝田由里子. Birth date unknown

Kato, Asuka
加藤あすか. Birth date unknown

As a singer, she participated in the FictionJunction project, and performed everlasting song, an insert song of the anime Erementar Gerad. The only single of FictionJunction ASUKA, everlasting song was released in july 2005. Among the four versions of the song contained in the single, there is a Japanese version instead of the english one heard in the anime. As a songwriter and singer, she released a maxi single called Daisakusen! in August 2000 and another one a.i. in febuary 2001

Koshimizu, Ami
小清水亜美. Born Febrary 15, 1986

Nina Wang is the character she dubbed in the anime My-Otome and Tenma Tsukamoto, the heroine of the anime School Rumble. Ami is mostly a seiyuu but she also performed Storm, the ending theme of My-Otome OAV and Hoshi ga kanaderu monogatari in My-Otome original sound track 2. She already released her first album, but there were no songs composed by Yuki.Official Site

Kubota, Keiko
窪田啓子. Born December 5, 1985

Singer who participated in the project FictionJunction KEIKO and sang Kaze no Machi he, an insert song of the anime Tsubasa Chronicle. Now, she is the half part of the duo Itokubo with Ito Ayaka. She is also one of the singers in Kalafina. Official Site

Kuwashima, Houko
桑島法子. Born December 12, 1975

A famous seiyuu, Kuwashima Houko dubbed Margaret in Madlax and Kirika in Noir, for which their OSTs were composed by Yuki. If you have seen Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny, she played the role of Flay and Stella.In addition, she sang Shinkai no Kodoku, an insert song in Gundam Seed Destiny composed by Yuki. She also performed the Japanese version of Canta Per Me! She has also released some solo albums, but they do not contain any songs composed by Yuki. Official Site

Lyons, Deb
Birth date unknown

Deb Lyons has performed on Fiction, and her most well-known work with Yuki Kajiura is the Image Theme of Xenosaga II and all its various incarnations throughout the soundtrack of Episode II and III. She is friends with Emily Bindiger and they have also performed together.Official Site

Makino, Yui
牧野由依. Born January 19, 1986

The voice of Sakura from Tsubasa Chronicle. She is also an actress, and sang ’synchronicity’, the opening of Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations as well as Yume no Tsubasa, an insert song for the anime Tsubasa Chronicle, released in her first album Tenkyū no Ongaku. Both are composed by Yuki. She has also performed Amrita, from the Tsubasa Chronicle movie (not by Yuki), and Tsuki no Shijima. Official Site

Minami, Omi
南央美. Born July 13, 1968

Miyamura, Yuko
宮村優子. Born December 4, 1972

Nanri, Yuuka
南里侑香. Born March 13, 1984

Main vocalist in the FictionJunction YUUKA project. She was originally a member of the South Aoyama Female Opera Group, and sang in musicals and stage performances, where she was said to have been first discovered by Yuki. In 2001, she began professional voice acting and has been heard in several animes including Gunslinger Girl and Mai-HiME. She was also part of Tiaraway along with Chiba Saeko. FictionJunction YUUKA is arguably one of Yuki’s most well-known collaborations. Official Site

Nishina, Kaori
仁科かおり/仁科薫理. Birth date unknown

Oda, Kaori
織田かおり. Born May 11, 1988

Kaori Oda is a member of Sound Horizon, CHIX CHICKS (the former group BJ Girls), and collaborated with Yuki in the FicionJunction project. She sang two insert songs Tsubasa and Dream Scape composed by Yuki in the anime Tsubasa Chronicle. The single Calling she released, is the ending theme of the anime Baccano! composed by Yuki as well. We can also hear her voice in Bj Girls/CHIX CHICKS releases, in the album Roman by Sound Horizon’s or the opening of Luminus Arc a nintendo DS game.
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Ogawa, Noriko
小川範子. Born July 20, 1973.

At the age of 14, she released her first single and began her long J-pop career. She is also an actress and played in two films. Noriko produced 23 singles and 15 albums. She tells the story of The Velveteen Rabbit, a children’s novel written by Margery Williams in the first CD of the album Fantasy Sound & Reading: The Velveteen Rabbit. Yuki participated to the elaboration of the background music in the first CD while in the second, she composed all tracks. Noriko performed the song “Velvet no Inori” in the end of the first CD. Official Site

Ootaki, Wakana
大滝若菜. Born December 10, 1984

Part of the project FictionJunction, Wakana sang Hikari no Yukue and Where the lights are in Shin Kyuuseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken Raoh Den Junai no Shou / Yuria Den ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK I. She also sang paradise regained in El Cazador OST 2. She is also a vocalist in Kalafina.

Seki, Tomokazu
関智. Born September 8, 1972

“Shoot” from Gundam Seed is the sole song composed by Yuki which is performed entirely by a male vocalist : Tomokazu. He is mostly known as a seiyuu and dubbed Sagara Sousuke in Full Metal Panic or Yzak in Gundam Seed series. He also played in live action movies like Cosmos X. As a singer, he produced three albums but they didn’t contain any songs composed by Yuki.
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Shinada, Yuri (Formerly Yuri Kasahara)
新南田ゆり, formerly 笠原由里. Born April 17, 19xx

The Queen of the Night in “Die Zauberflöte” (an opera composed by Mozart) or Violetta Valery from “La traviata” (an opera by Giuseppe Verdi), Yuri played both of them. So you get it, she is an opera singer ; and we all know that Yuki love opera voices. We also hear her voice in .hack//Liminality, Noir, My-HiME, My-Otome, or in Yuki’s solo Album : FICTION. She has sung over 100 songs and she wrote lyrics and scenarios for several musical-plays. Official Site

Tanaka, Rie
田中理恵. Born January 3, 1979

Everyone knows her as Chii/Freya, Lacus/Meer, Suigintou, Yomi, etc etc etc. She is famous for singing a lot of things but with Yuki, her most popular single has been Fields of Hope from Gundam SEED Destiny.
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Wakatsuki, Sara
若月さら. Born November 24, 1989

The youngest vocalist who collaborated with Yuki, Sara sings with Miho Aihara Endless Sky, the 6th ending theme of the TV live-action drama Negima! Magister Negi Magi composed by Yuki, wherein she played the role of Asuna Kagurazaka.
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