Kojima Mayumi

  Vocals: Kojima Mayumi


  Started: 1994
  Status: Active

Profile

Inspired by 1950 American classics, Kojima Mayumi created her first demo tape in 1994 and began to submit it to record companies. She received a contract through a label and became a full fledge musician at the age of 18. She debuted in 1995 with the single "Kekkon Soudanshoo", and released her first album two months later.

It wasn’t until 1997, that Kojima began to perform live. She started at small venues like Shibuya Club Quattro, and was invited to the Rising Sun Rock Festival four years later.

Over the years, Kojima’s popularity has continued to grow. She has starred on NHK-FM’s "Live Beat", had a song featured on a commerical for Nintendo, and now performs at some of Japan’s largest music festivals each year! She has also released an illustrated collection of prose titled "Kojima Mayumi’s Paperback".

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Thoughts

Kojima Mayumi is a very interesting singer. She is heavily influenced by music from the 1950’s in America, and you can almost recognize some of her tunes. "Blue Melody" is a good example of an inspired 1950’s song. One thing that strikes me as strange about Kojima is that she likes to use this nasally voice for her vocals, but every once in a while she’ll break away from that for a second and actually have a beautiful deep voice. Her songs would be much improved if she could stick to her lower ranges.
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Music Samples:

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Wai Wai Wai

Itoshi no Kizzu

Blue Melody

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Pictures

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Discography

Albums
A Musical Biography 2001 - 2007
Swingin’ Caravan
Kojima Mayumi’s Paperback
Pablo no Koibito
Ai no Poltergeist
My Name is Blue
Me and My Monkey on the Moon
Songs for Gentlemen
Sayonara Cecile


Singles
Blue Melody
Omokage
Itoshi no Kizzu
Rock Steady Girl
Amai Koi
Wai Wai Wai
Roku Denashi
Fuusen
Midnight Party
Cecil - cut Bruce
Hatsukoi
Hatachi no Koi
Manatsu no Umi
Kekkon Soudanshoo

Links

Official Site

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