Nami Tamaki

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Nami Tamaki
玉置成実
Born June 1, 1988 (1988-06-01) (age 20)
Origin Flag of Japan Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Genre(s) J-Pop, Dance-pop, Pop rock
Years active 2003—present
Label(s) Sony Music Japan
Tofu Records
Website Official site (Sony)
Official site (Smile Company)
In this Japanese name, the family name is Tamaki.

Nami Tamaki (玉置成実 Tamaki Nami?, born June 1, 1988) is a Japanese pop singer, known for her young age and her powerful dancing. Her career took off when she was selected out of 5,000 in a Sony Music Japan Audition in 2003, singing and dancing to Destiny's Child's "Survivor". She has various commercial tie-ins with the Japanese anime and games industry, and has also performed in a stage musical and a movie. Her musical influences include American singers such as Britney Spears, Madonna, and Janet Jackson.

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[edit] Career

Nami auditioned for Sony Music Japan in 2003 when she was fourteen years old. Her first U.S. concert performance was opening for T.M.Revolution at the Pacific Media Expo 2004.

She graduated from high school in March 2007; her first Best (Greatest Hits) Album was released on November 29, 2006 to mark the event, and she started acting and stage performances in full speed after her graduation. The first event after her graduation was her first concert tour: Nami Tamaki Best Concert “My Graduation” on the 11th, 17th, 23rd and 31st of March 2007 at various places in Japan.

[edit] Anime and game industry

Nami has a relatively close relationship with the ACG (Anime, Comics, Game) industry, as she contributed to several ACG franchises with her music. Well-known examples of her contributions include those in the Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny franchise[1], the anime series D.Gray-man with Brightdown as the second opening song as well as Sanctuary, and one of the opening themes of the anime series Kiba.

She also performed the song Fortune as the main theme for the PS2 role-playing game "Radiata Stories", and CASTAWAY as the theme song for a GBA turn-based strategy game, Super Robot Wars J.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

# Information Chart Positions
1st Album Greeting #5
2nd Album Make Progress #1
3rd Album Speciality #1
Compilation Graduation ～Singles～ #6
4th Album Don't Stay #14

[edit] Singles

Album Single Highest Weekly Chart Positions
Japan Oricon Chart
Greeting "Believe" 6
"Realize" 3
"Prayer" 12
"Shining Star ☆忘れないから☆ (Wasurenaikara)" 10
Make Progress "大胆にいきましょう↑Heart & Soul↑ (Daitan ni Ikimashou)" 13
"Reason" 2
"Fortune" 6
"Heroine" 6
Speciality "Get Wild" 7
"MY WAY/Sunrize" 18
"Result" 5
"Sanctuary" 12
Don't Stay "Cross Season" 23
"Brightdown" 8
"Winter Ballades" 19

[edit] Other compilation songs

Note: The songs below are tributes to several famous Japanese singers and are not presented in any of Nami Tamaki's singles or albums.

[edit] DVDs

[edit] Performances

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[edit] Commercial tie-ins

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[edit] Animation, Comics, and Games (ACG)

[edit] TV Shows and others

  • Matthew's Best Hit TV
    • Shining Star ☆忘れないから☆
  • NTT DoCoMo High School Musical 2 You Are the Music in Me[[Japanese version)It was one of the most liked version out of all of the other countries on Disney Channel USA and Disney Channel Japan.
  • NNN News Real-time
    • Together

[edit] Awards

  • The 18th Japan Gold Disc Award (第18回日本ゴールドディスク大賞): New Artist of the Year (2004)

[edit] Trivia

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  • Her musical contributions in the Gundam SEED franchise led to a request from the producers to voice the character of Shiho Hahnenfuss, similar to the way in which Takanori Nishikawa (another major contributor to the Gundam SEED franchise's music) voicing the roles of Miguel Aiman (Gundam SEED) and Heine Westenfluss, and Vivian Hsu (part of Vivian or Kazuma, who sang the second opening of SEED, "Moment") voicing Aisha (Gundam SEED). However, Tamaki turned the offer down and as a result, while Shiho makes several appearances in Gundam SEED Destiny (as well as an appearance as the unseen pilot of the CGUE DEEP ARMS in a five-minute short featuring Lowe Guele), she never speaks. This is seen as beneficial for the character because Heine, Miguel and Aisha were all brutally killed shortly after their introduction, while Shiho lives through both series and is one of the most popular background characters in the SEED universe.
    • Perhaps as a remarkable coincidence, Tamaki was again reunited with Takanori Nishikawa and Rie Fu in the soundtracks for the anime series D.Gray-man, in which her song "Brightdown" replaced "Innocent Sorrow" by Takanori's band, abingdon boys school, as the opening theme.
  • Her song 大胆にいきましょう↑Heart & Soul↑ (Daitan ni Ikimashou) is a remake of the A*Teens song "A Perfect Match". It uses the same tune, but is otherwise original.
  • Two of her songs, "Realize" and "Get Wild", were made in collaboration with a student in the Class of 2009 at UC San Diego School of Medicine (UCSD), whom she became friends with as a child in Japan; one is an original track and the other is a modern version of a song from the popular 80's band, TM Network.
  • "High School Queen" is a cover version of "Teenage Superstar" by Dutch singer Kim-Lian. There are four more cover versions - one is sung by Mexican singer Belinda Peregrin ("Boba Niña Nice"), one by Portuguese band D'ZRT ("Para mim tanto me faz"), one by Czech singer Ewa Farna and one by Spanish group Efecto Mariposa, entitled "Que mas da".
  • Tamaki has performed the theme song "Fortune" for the PS2 RPG "Radiata Stories". She also represents as a character and can be recruited to join the player's party.
  • Her promotional video for Daitan ni Ikimashou -Heart & Soul- was choreographed by Emmy-nominated choreographer Travis Payne. Payne appears and speaks at the beginning and end of the video, and is seen in rehearsal scenes included in the video.
  • In her fifteenth single, "Winter Ballades", the song "winter fall" is a re-arranged version of the same-titled cover song in L'Arc~en~Ciel's ninth single which was released in 1998.

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ The songs Realize, Believe, Reason, Result and IDentity
  2. ^ http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20070312-00000013-oric-ent
  3. ^ Official Website (episode 7 overview)

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