elaby | Rie Fu

Ahh, mystery solved.

caitirin and I had been listening to Rie Fu's song from Bleach, Life is Like a Boat, over and over, because it's OMG so pretty. And Caitirin mentioned to me that her English was so good and her Japanese was so... well, articulated, that it didn't sound like a native Japanese speaker when compared to other Japanese singers. So we theorized that it was an English speaker who was just very good at Japanese and could pronounce everything really really well. Then I actually noticed that I had the singer's name on the song file, and as it was Rie Fu, that theory was slightly jostled. Anyway, I was looking her up and I found a Wikipedia article about her.

She is Japanese and was born in Tokyo, but she lived in Maryland from the age of 7 until she was 10, and apparently now she goes to college at the University of Arts, London, and commutes between England and Japan for her career purposes. And she's only 20. She's also a fairly new talent, because her first single was released in March of '04.

Going to see Caitirin now ^_^