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Kawaguchi, Tokyo, Japan (1991 – present)
Chara earned her nickname as a schoolchild from her teacher (charachara means “scatterbrained”) and has been called such ever since. She has always been musically involved, she began composing music in her later years of elementary school and played keyboard in a band from her second year of high school.
One of the things that defines Chara’s music is her singing voice. It is often described as sweet and whispering like a child’s, yet forceful and sincere. Despite her very distinctive singing voice, Chara considers herself a musician first and foremost; proficient with instruments such as the piano, drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, synthesizer and tambourine. There are common themes to a lot of her music, including motherhood, innocence, love, beauty, and cheerfulness.
She has appeared as one of the main characters in ‘Swallowtail Butterfly’ movie and sang all the songs. The album ‘Montage’ is actually a vocal collection from this movie, that’s why it was released under the name of Yen Town Band - which is a fictional band from the story. She has also starred in ‘PiCNiC’ where she played the mental patient Coco. She would go on to marry her co-star Asano Tadanobu (浅野忠信) in 1995.
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Union
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Fitst
@javsify oh my! You need to put that album on repeat! Its one of her best IMO - - - and thats saying something seeing how good all her albums are!
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javsify
I need to listen to Union more. It's the only chara album I don't really know the songs to.
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Ustareth
'something blue' is one of the most psychedelic albums I've ever heard. Love it.
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Fitst
new single this june!
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Eudes_Ferreira
This voice.... Ahhnnn, felling relaxed.... *¬*
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kidmohair
Hey if anyone wants to listen to Tadanobu Asano and Chara's Bloodthirsty Butchers cover "12月", someone posted it on Tumblr so you might as well check it. I guess it's pretty rare cos I've been looking for it all over the internet for the longest time and luckily someone was generous enough to post it on his blog. http://hanataiyouame.tumblr.com/post/43504904666/tadanobu-asano-chara-12-bloodthirsty
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I0000days
chick takes j-pop to a whole 'nother level
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Rapovezz
good
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NadinOHsaurus
v Yes certainly :) And the covers are both awesome!
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CeramicBoy
@NadinOHsaurus I think it's the text that gives off that vibe. Reminiscent of Bjork's single cover for Cocoon actually hahah.
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KevinthePanda
Cocoon (the track) is fantastic.
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OmerNurelian
COCOON is so GOOOOOD!!!! i almost died from happiness when i first heared it!!!
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Markz11
her new album is soooo goooooooooooooooooooooooood
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NadinOHsaurus
The album cover for COCOON has slight similarities to Björk's Biophilia.
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Markz11
WHERE IS COCOON O-M-F-G
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1Sleep
yoake mae is one of her best albums imo
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CeramicBoy
I just love her so much.
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manrush
That too.
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Eriol-kun
I was drawn to Chara's music because her voice is so weird, bizarre and out of the ordinary. [2] And freaking sexy.
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Denpanator
Perfume'fans loves "Crazy for you" of this artist <3
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