Viva Ai

Viva Ai (stylized as ViVa A.I.) is the seventh studio album by Japanese R&B musician Ai, released on March 4, 2009. It featured three singles, the 2008 theme song for the film Departures, "Okuribito," a collaboration single with Exile vocalist Atsushi called "So Special" and the preceding single, "You Are My Star."

Background and development

Six months after Ai released her sixth album, Don't Stop Ai, she released a re-cut single from that album, a ballad called "Taisetsu na Mono." Both of the B-sides from the single, "Feel for You" and "Touch the Sky" appear on Viva Ai. At the same time, she released a single with Anna Tsuchiya called "Crazy World," which was the first time Ai was a billed artist on a single since Suite Chic's "Uh Uh......" and Michico's "Gold Digga" in 2003.

In July 2008, Ai was featured on an R&B mid-tempo song called "So Special," by Exile member Atsushi, released on Exile's compilation album Exile Entertainment Best. The song was later re-arranged into an Ai version, and was released as one of the A-sides of her September 2009 single. The other A-side, "Okuribito," is the eponymous theme song for the Academy Award winning Yōjirō Takita film Departures.

Viva

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Arts and entertainment

Viva (Canadian magazine)

Launched in November 2004, Viva magazine is Canada's only natural health celebrity magazine and the original balanced living publication.

Viva was founded by Olivier Felicio, is published six times per year and circulates within Canada throughout Loblaws, health food stores, pharmacies and salons.

Some of Viva's main advertisers include Webber Naturals, Jamieson Laboratories, Genuine Health, Blue Diamond Growers, Advantage Health, Platinum Naturals, PVL Nutrients, Quest, Holista Health, Nature's Gate, Bio-K Plus, and Just Juice.

Viva Magazine is a free publication under the Rive Gauche Media Publishing umbrella. The offices of Rive Gauche Media are located in Toronto & Montreal, Canada.

Celebrities who have appeared on the cover of Viva Magazine include Serena Williams, Taraji P. Henson, Patricia Arquette, Maria Bello, Courteney Cox, Patricia Heaton, Marg Helgenberger, Rachel Hunter, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alyssa Milano, Kathryn Morris, Julia Ormond, Ana Ortiz, Jaime Pressly, Vanessa Williams, Cheryl Ladd, Heidi Klum and Christina Applegate.

Viva (2007 film)

Viva is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Anna Biller. It's a faithful homage to sexploitation films from the 1960s and 1970s, but with a feminist twist. The film has received mixed reactions, and "illustrates cinema’s unique ability to blend high and low culture."Viva premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2007. It was also entered into the main competition at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival.Viva was released on DVD by Cult Epics on Feb. 24, 2009.

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