Nagi Yanagi becomes 26 in 6 days

Nagi Yanagi is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Kansai, Japan and is signed to Geneon. Initially, she sung and produced music independently beginning in 2005. Between 2009 and 2011, Yanagi was the vocalist for the music group Supercell. Yanagi is collaborating with composer Jun Maeda of Key to produce the original concept album Owari no Hoshi no Love Song to be released in spring 2012. Yanagi will release her single "Vidro Moyō" in February 2012, which is used as the ending theme to the anime Ano Natsu de Matteru.

Career

Nagi Yanagi began posting cover versions of songs online in 2005, and starting producing original dōjin music in 2006 under the name CorLeonis. She released four studio albums individually: EN (2006), Leonis (2007), Freirinite (2008), and Oort no Yume (2010). Leonis was only released online via Yanagi's website. Two more releases followed in 2011: the single "Hyōka no Kuni" and the best of album Ame no Umi. In May 2006, she formed the music duo Binaria with female singer Annabel. Between 2007 and 2011, Binaria released two mini-albums (Alhaja (2007) and Forma (2007)), one best of album (Sonido (2010)), and four singles ("Epoca" (2008), "Alba" (2009), "Delightful Doomsday" (2010), and "Nachtflug" (2011)). Binaria also collaborated with the singer Cassini for the single "Rueda" (2007). In January 2007, Yanagi formed the musical unit Inochi Kokonotsu with composer KTG (an acronym of Ken The Garage), and the group put out a single album, Tortoiseshell , on April 29, 2007 before dissolving in June 2007.

As early as 2007, Yanagi began submitting cover versions of songs to the Nico Nico Douga video sharing website under the name Gazelle. Roughly the next day after Supercell's songwriter Ryo uploaded the music group's first song "Melt" in December 2007, Yanagi uploaded a cover of her singing the song. Yanagi, who was herself a fan of Ryo's music, contacted him and the two talked about someday collaborating. Ryo, who had been a fan of Yanagi's voice even before uploading his own songs to Nico Nico Douga, approached her to sing the vocals for Supercell's debut single "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" (2009). Yanagi continued as the vocalist of Supercell until 2011, and in that time provided vocals for two more singles in 2010—"Sayonara Memories" and "Utakata Hanabi / Hoshi ga Matataku Konna Yoru ni"—and Supercell's second studio album Today Is A Beautiful Day (2011).

Later in 2011, Yanagi sung two songs on the original soundtrack for Key's visual novel Rewrite. In December 2011, Yanagi began collaborating with Jun Maeda of Key to produce the original concept album Owari no Hoshi no Love Song to be released in spring 2012. A single from the album, "Killer Song", was released at Comiket 81 on December 29, 2011. Yanagi will make her solo debut with the single "Vidro Moyō" to be released on February 29, 2012. "Vidro Moyō" is used as the ending theme to the 2012 TV anime Ano Natsu de Matteru. close