Set off on a journey to faraway lands and distant worlds with an evening of fantasy and video game inspired piano music!
Including a world premiere performance of official piano collections from ‘Relics of Aeternum: Dragonsoul Chronicle’.
Come by for an evening of music that will leave you nostalgic for mystical worlds that don’t exist.
Two options for tickets!
General Admission and Deluxe. The Deluxe option includes a physical CD of my album ‘Endless Days of Rain’ (save $5 on the CD with this option!).
Very excited to perform my music again and hope to see you there!
For today's #musicmonday I'll reminisce about a jpop idol who debuted to wild success, released a string of equally successful albums, and ended her career because....well, I'll get into that later.
Melody Ishikawa, better known by her stylized stage name melody., is a Japanese-American singer born in Hawaii. Discovered by one of Japan's most successful record producers while she was in high school, Melody completed her education before moving to Japan at 19 to pursue a singing career. After being attached to several girl group projects that fizzled out, melody. eventually debuted a solo artist and saw immediate success. Her first album, Sincerely, had four singles peak in the top 40 of the Oricon charts. melody.'s songs feature an effortless sounding mix of Japanese and English lyrics, and a joyful, upbeat dance-pop sound.
My personal favorite songs from Sincerely are So Into You, and a dance-pop cover of Over The Rainbow As my college radio show was scheduled for Tuesday and Friday evenings, I liked to end with one of these infectiously cheerful tracks during the long winter months--it felt like a way to give a bit of brightness to whoever might be wandering the campus during broadcast hours. :blobcatkissheart:
The following years saw melody. release two more albums, Be as One and READY TO GO!, and her most successful single, Realize, which was also the theme song for jdrama Dragon Zakura.
2008 saw the release of melody.'s final studio album, Lei Aloha. Meant to be a reflection of melody.'s life in Hawaii as a child, the songs on Lei Aloha tend towards softer ballads with understated string and piano arrangements. The sole single, Haruka was the ending theme song for Daisuki!!, a tender jdrama about a severely disabled woman trying to raise a child after the death of her husband.
After Lei Alohamelody. abruptly retired from the music business, citing a desire to work in fashion design. However, a year later, she announced her marriage to guitarist Miyavi, which is likely the real motivation for her sudden exit.
Of course, it's not uncommon for Asian pop idols to retire when their marriage becomes public (or they just want to get married) but it always hurts to see a successful female performer to completely stop releasing new material. OTOH....Melody did marry perhaps the greatest Japanese guitarist of all time and a global rock icon so you know what? Get it, girl. :blobhaj_thanks_love: #jpop#melody.
Hoy me he topado de casualidad en Amazon Prime Video con una de las #películas que más me marcó en la niñez: #Melody (1971), y no he podido resistirme a verla. Es tan maravillosa como recordaba y he viajado de nuevo a los 6 o 7 años. Un retrato de la preadolescencia auténtico y sin artificios, casi cinéma-vérité.
Tiene frases de enmarcar, por devastadoras. La amistad de Daniel (Mark Lester, posiblemente el actor infantil más fotogénico de todos los tiempos, al igual que Tracy Hyde) con Tom es también de lo más emotiva, y ofrece escenas tan conmovedoras como cuando Tom le suplica a Daniel que se quede con él en lugar de irse con Melody, sabiendo que sus días de inseparable amistad están quedando atrás.
El final de la película se me quedó grabado a fuego (por lo que tiene de sublimación de la rebeldía infantil contra el tiránico mundo adulto).
Como aliciente, las bellas canciones de The Bee Gees.
Imprescindible si os apasionan las películas coming-of-age. Esta es una de las mejores.
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Die ersten 80 von 336 Seiten sind gelesen. Es liest sich bisher unerwartet gut und auch der Aufbau der Handlung macht Sinn. Bin gespannt, ob es so bleibt oder wieder abflacht.
To those who'd like to get some cool uncle/aunty points: kids either don't care or have no idea who #HelloKitty is. The trendy #SanRio characters right now, in order, are: #Kuromi, #Melody, and #Cinnamoroll. You're welcome.