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Bonnie Pink
Birth name Kaori Asada
Also known as Bonnie Pink
Born (1973-04-16) 16 April 1973 (age 39)
Origin Kyoto, Japan
Genres Pop
Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active 1995–present
Labels Pony Canyon (1995-1998)
Warner Music Japan (1999-present)
Pinxter (indie record label, 2003-present)
Taisuke (talent agency)
Associated acts Tore Johansson, Mitchell Froom, Craig David, M-Flo, Tsuyoshi Domoto
Website www.bonniepink.jp

Kaori Asada (浅田 香織 Asada Kaori?, born 16 April 1973 in Kyoto, Japan), known by her stage name Bonnie Pink, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. She lived in New York during 1998 and speaks English (many of her songs are entirely in English). She writes and composes all her songs, and plays guitar and piano. Asada has said that the name Bonnie Pink is random and has no special meaning; she chose it because it was easy to remember and because she thought the words were cute together.[1]

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History [link]

Bonnie Pink debuted in 1995 with the single "Orenji", under her real name, Asada Kaori. Her first album, Blue Jam, was released that same year under the Pony Canyon record label. She described it as a "mixture of bitter honey, blues music, momentary silence, irresistible madness, teardrops, sour grapes, hopeful bombs, big big love, and a few green apples" in the jacket. It introduced her unique style of music that has been defined as an off-beat mix between jazz, blues, pop, and rock. The next year she met Tore Johansson, Swedish producer for The Cardigans, who became her good friend and produced much of her work. The song "It's Gonna Rain!" was the fifth ending of the popular Rurouni Kenshin anime. She wrote her third album, Evil & Flowers (1998), while in isolation in the Swedish countryside. She hoped to find inspiration there, but became depressed. She put her feelings of frustration into the songs.[citation needed] She went to New York alone to take a vacation and to study music after having released her third album in 1998. She went back in 1999 and contracted with Warner Music Japan.

On her fourth album, Let Go, she worked with Mitchell Froom, New York producer of Elvis Costello, Cibo Matto, and Suzanne Vega. He gave her co-production credit for the album because he was so impressed with her. Her fifth album, Just a Girl, came out in 2001. The next year she collaborated with other artists and released Re-Pink, a remix album. Present came out in 2003 and Even So in 2004. Golden Tears, which features the single "So Wonderful", came out in 2005.[citation needed]

Bonnie Pink released a new single "Love is Bubble" in May 2006. Her June 2006 single "A Perfect Sky", featured in an Anessa makeup commercial with popular model Yuri Ebihara, reached number 2 on the Oricon singles charts, making it the most successful single in Bonnie Pink's career. Her "best of" album sold out quickly on Amazon Japan and reached number two on the Oricon charts and continued to chart in the top 30 becoming one of the top selling albums of the year. In November 2006, she was featured in M-Flo's single "Love Song". The single was a hit for both M-Flo and Bonnie Pink, it debuted at number 7 on the Oricon charts, which is a big leap from M-Flo's previous singles and gained Bonnie Pink another top 10 single.[citation needed]

Her song "Cotton Candy" was used as the ending theme for the anime Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor in 2005, and "Love is Bubble" was the theme song for the Japanese movie Memories of Matsuko, in which she also featured. Her single "Last Kiss", which appears as the last song on her greatest hits album, was the ending theme to the popular Gantz anime.[citation needed]

Bonnie Pink's single "Anything for You", although not as successful as "A Perfect Sky", still reached number 9 on the Oricon charts, achieving moderate success. Bonnie Pink, shortly after releasing her previous single, began performing on popular TV music shows and promoting her latest single, "Water Me", which was the theme song for the popular TV drama Watashitachi no Kyōkasho ("Our Textbooks") a dark, melancholy drama about a young girl's suicide and the effect on her school. The single "Water Me" reached number 6 on Oricon on its release date and number 8 on the weekly charts. On 7 July 2007, Bonnie Pink performed at Live Earth in Kyoto.

Bonnie Pink's album Thinking Out Loud was released on 25 July 2007, her first album to be sold in both CD and CD+DVD formats. The first press of both editions came with an access ticket containing the AD/Password to reserve tickets for her tour, "Bonnie Pink Tour 2007 "Thinking Out Loud" Final at Nippon Budokan" on a special designated website. The CD pre-orders made the album number 1 on the Amazon.com Japan Top Sellers. The album debuted at number 4 on the Oricon Daily Charts and number 5 on the weekly charts selling approximately 53,605 copies. As of 5 September 2007, her album had sold approximately 90,000 copies. Bonnie Pink was on her "Thinking Outloud Tour" from late 2007 to early 2008.

In April 2008, Bonnie Pink made a guest performances for Domoto Tsuyoshi's solo project 244 Endli-x album I and Ai. She was featured on the last track, "Say Anything", which she wrote the lyrics to with Domoto.

The English version of Bonnie Pink's single "Ring a Bell" is only available through digital download. "Ring a Bell" was used as the theme song for the American release of the Xbox 360 game Tales of Vesperia. The single was released in Japan and America on iTunes to celebrate Bonnie Pink's 35th birthday. Its Japanese counterpart, "Kane o Narashite", was released on 6 August 2008. Bonnie Pink's thirtieth single, "Joy / Happy Ending", was released on 8 April 2009. One, her 10th studio album, followed on 13 May 2009.

Discography [link]

Studio albums [link]

Other albums [link]

Singles [link]

Other appearances [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ Interview with Bonnie Pink
  2. ^ {https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=CTCR-14456]

External links [link]

Bonnie Pink
Studio albums
Other albums
Singles
Compilations
DVDs
See also

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Water Me

"Water Me" is Bonnie Pink's twenty-eighth single from the album Thinking Out Loud. The single was released under the Warner Music Japan label on June 6, 2007. It was used as the ending theme for the 2007 Japanese television drama Watashitachi no Kyōkasho.

Track listing

  • Water Me
  • Gimme a Beat
  • Magical Mystery Tour
  • Water Me (Instrumental)
  • Gimme a Beat (Instrumental)

    • Oricon Sales Chart

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    Water Me (song)

    "Water Me" is a song by English recording artist FKA twigs released on 1 August 2013 as a Promotional single for her second extended play "EP2" by Young Turks and it serves as the third track off the album.

    Background

    FKA Twigs' first single was something that she and London based producer Alejandro Ghersi came up with at the end of a session. She recalled to Red Bull Music Academy: "It wasn't a particularly successful session up until that point. We were making these beats and I was whisper-rapping over some stuff, and it all felt a bit empty. We had half-an-hour left at the end, and we started playing together. I was on the Tempest, doing some drums. And Alejandro started adding some synths. The Tempest has this great function where you can record something straight into it and start manipulating it. Very quickly the words came to me, out of nowhere. I'm not going to lie and say I laboured over it for ages. I think I wrote it in about seven minutes."

    Music video

    An official music video was released on 1 August 2013. The video consists of a close up of FKA twigs' face, bobbing frantically. She begins to cry and it "waters" her, causing her eyes to grow larger. The video went viral, reaching over ten million views on YouTube. Was directed by Jesse Kanda and FKA twigs. The executive producer was Juliette Larthe, and the head of production was Margo Mars, both from Prettybird. The producer was Shimmy. The cinematographer was Sy Turnbull. The stylist was Jean Paul Paula, and the makeup was by Bea Sweet.

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    Podcasts:

    BONNIE PINK

    ALBUMS

    Chasing Hope

    Released 2012

    Back Room-BONNIE PINK Remakes-

    Released 2011

    Back Room-BONNIE PINK Remakes-

    Released 2011

    Dear Diary

    Released 2010

    ONE

    Released 2009

    Thinking Out Loud

    Released 2008

    Every Single Day: Complete BONNIE PINK (1995–2006)

    Released 2006

    REMINISCENCE

    Released 2005

    Golden Tears

    Released 2005

    Even So

    Released 2004

    Pink in Red (BONNIE PINK LIVE 2003 "Tonight, the Night" at AKASAKA BLITZ)

    Released 2003

    Present

    Released 2003

    re*PINK

    Released 2002

    Just a Girl

    Released 2001

    Let go

    Released 2000

    Bonnie's Kitchen #2

    Released 2000

    Bonnie's Kitchen #1

    Released 1999

    Evil and Flowers

    Released 1998

    「Lie lie Lie」The Original Motion Picture Sound Track

    Released 1997

    Lie Lie Lie

    Released 1997

    Heaven's Kitchen

    Released 1997

    Blue Jam

    Released 1995
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    Lullaby

    by: Bonnie Pink

    Aijou kata no kimi no mikeneko
    Mado garasu ni motarete
    Hateshinaku hiroi sekai wo
    Shiru sube mo nai tte sa
    Koko ni iru yo
    Koko ni iru yo
    Koko ni iru yo
    I'm here sakenda tte
    Arasoi wa taenai rashii
    Hey, I'm going back to sleep
    Warubirete abita osake ni
    Sukuwareru wake wa naku
    Jikoken'o no asa wo mukaete nao
    Watashi no kami wo nadeta
    Machigatte iru yo
    Machigatte iru yo
    Machigatte iru yo
    You're wrong nageita tte
    Isakai wa taenai rashii
    Hey, let's go back to sleep
    Sleep, baby
    Toru ni tayoranai chiisai koto mo
    Te ni oenai ookina koto mo
    Naru you ni shika naranai no sa
    Asu wo yume miru tame ni nemurou
    Nemuranakya negaeri wa utenai yo
    Hontou ni yuruganai hidamari ni kaerou




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