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Nakano Ritsuki
(born
January 19,
1975), later known as Rikki, is a famous Japanese folk singer. She was
born in Amami Oshima, Japan. She began to sing traditional Japanese folk
music when she was four years old. Later, at the age of 15, Rikki was the
youngest winner ever to win the "Grand Prix" of the Japanese traditional
folk music awards. She released her first single "Maten no Hoshi" (which
means "Sky Full of Stars") in December 1993. Shortly thereafter, she
produced debut album, Kaze no Koe. Rikki is widely known by gamers
as the singer of the [[Final_Fantasy#Final_Fantasy_X|Final Fantasy X]] main
theme, Suteki Da Ne, released as a single on July 18, 2001. One reason why
Nobuo Uematsu and Kazushige Nojima chose her to perform Suteki Da Ne is
that she is very famous in Japan as a traditional folk singer and he
believed that her voice is rather nice and gentle, and that her voice has a
higher pitch than the voices of mainstream Japanese singers. Rikki was 26
years old at the time of Final Fantasy X's release. Many professional and
amateur singers were inspired her singing voice and ability to make
combinations and mixtures of pop and rock music. In 1998, Rikki was chosen
to participate at the opening ceremony of the 1998 Winter Paralympics in
Nagano, Japan, sing the Paralympics theme song "Tabidachi no Toki." In
2001, she produced a picture album alongside Joe Hisaishi for the motion
picture Spirited Away (directed by Hayao Miyazaki). |
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