Allow me this little indulgence ... I can't go this year and I am so envious of my friends, Tien, Eugin, Daniel and also a new friend, who I have not had the priviledge of seeing, Joy, who will be there in Japan this year during Akina's concert from the 7th to 17th July (total of 17 sessions) The sessions are listed here.
Recently, Akina wanted to be a club singer, so that she can be closer to her fans. To achieve this dream, she is holding a special concert this year at Club eX in Shinagawa, which holds only 450 seats in each concert. According to news reports and from Tien and Eugin, she will be holding an unplugged concert (I am more jealous) and it will consist totally of songs from her Utahime series (3 albums of cover versions). I hope that she will sing some new songs that she has not covered before in her 3 cover albums.
I believe that this will be a great challenge for any singer, not only for someone who loves challenges like Akina, to not only pull off singing popular songs of others live, but also in unplugged mode. This will be such a special concert and I am crossing my fingers that she will not only excel but also that it will be available on DVD, since Tien mentioned in her new blog that this concert is sponsored by TBS, which is such good news!
I am eagerly awaiting the first reports from Tien, who I believe is watching the first session, to see what she thinks. Akina has also mentioned that her image at the concert will be "vampish" like the one on the poster and that there will be some song changes during the 17 sessions to keep it fresh, especially for fans who might attend several sessions, like Tien and Joyce are. To learn more, you can actually visit Tien and Eugin's blog. Don't forget to go for another Akina karaoke session so that we can increase her income for this year!! (As ridiculous as it sounds, we found out recently that Japanese artistes actually get royalties if their songs are requested at Karaoke). Thanks guys and have my share of fun for me!!!
頑張って!!! 明菜さん.
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Oops! Kawai Hamu by the way!
I knew that somehow I was going to make a mistake because when I first typed the message, I wrote "Joy" and then when I reread the message, I wondered to myself if it was Joy or Joyce.
I eventually decided to go with Joyce because I thought I had confused her with my niece, whose name is Joy too. No wonder I was a little curious as to why Joyce, who is as you say, "crazy" (like we are), over Fukuyama would feel the same way about Akina too. Thanks for clearing up. ;-)
heylo!! I have a good offer for you...free concert tickets for 16th and 17th...1 show for each day...all you need is to grab a air-ticket and fly to tokyo to meet us...get accomodation and that's it...I am serious. I really have tickets to give...if you really can make it( which I really hope so)...please join us in Tokyo...email me okay??
Wow! Wow! What a wonderful and generous offer, Ranbi! Thank you so much for the offer!! This is an offer for a big dream come true!!
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