Kotringo

Websitehttp://kotringo.net/ktrng/index.html Twitterhttps://twitter.com/commmons Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/kotringo Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kotringo717/ Singersongwriter Composer and Pianist. She started playing piano when she was 5 years old. After graduating from KOYO SCHOOL OF MUSICcurrentKOYO SCHOOL OF MUSICDANCE she went to study abroad in Boston then graduated from Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Jazz composition and a Bachelor of Music in Performance. In 2006 Nichiyomachi Waiting for Sunday which would become her 2nd single was on air at the JWAVE radio audition program RADIO SAKAMOTO navigated by Ryuichi Sakamoto then she performed in LOHAS CLASSIC Concert also produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto. In the same year she released Konnichiwa mata ashita Hello See you produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto as her debut single in Japan. Since then she has released 11 solo albums and 7 soundtrack albums. The latest solo album is Ame no hakoniwa My garden in the rain released in 2017. She composed the whole score in a longrunning hit animated movie Konosekai no Katasumi ni In This Corner of the World released in November 2016 which led to her winning the 40th Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Music the 71st Mainichi Film Awards for Best Music and Best Music Award in the Osaka Cinema Festival 2017. Music of In This Corner of the World Concert which represented the movie in a music concert was wellreceived all over the country. At present she has earned a high reputation as a singersongwriter composer and pianist with works on soundtracks for movies dramas animations and commercials and has a deeper expression of orchestra arrangements as well as performances. In recent years the range of her voice expressions has expanded including narration. In 2018 she visited Argentina on her first overseas tour making all six performances a huge success and gained worldwide acclaim. She is now active as an artist who draws a pop world full of floating feelings with outstanding piano performance and soft singing voice. Source: Official Website