Miki Hirayama in the Kennedy House of Ginza

On June, 18th, in a small live house of Ginza called Kennedy House, Miki Hirayama held two lives.
The "Kennedy House" live house is a beautiful place, in which you can feel an atmosphere between rock and jazz, like the old good sound. The lights also really fixed this special environment.
Well, just with this, you know you will have a good time. And the live was really great!!

5 musicians were on stage as well:
- Tsukasa Ueda (guitar and vocal),
- Taro Nishiyama (guitar and vocal),
- Masahiro Morishita (bass and vocal),
- Tadaomi Takemura (drums and vocal),
- Tomohiko Sasagawa (sax and vocal),
- Otohico Tahara (piano and vocal).
All are members of the group Super Wonderland.

They began with a funky and rock sound and just after Miki arrived on stage. The Yellow Lion, as she described herself, fixed already all the attention, with her strong and particular voice.

The audience of all ages was clapping and were moving on rythm with the music, but still while being seated, really funny to see.All the musicians were dancing with Miki.
And when they began a medley of The Beatles, what a show seriously!!!

This is the kind of music you want to hear to wake up and be in a good mood for the whole day. Miki continued with some personal songs with a new touch, more jazzy or rock.
She covered an old but really famous song of Kyuu Sakamoto, Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi O. And this is one of the best cover I've heard of this song, so touching...
Of course she also sang her more famous songs like Beautiful・Yokohama and Manatsu no Dekigoto.

With a nice setlist, she gave happiness to all the public.

For this live, we can just say one thing: thank you, miss Hirayama!

Miki Hirayama Profile

Name: Miki Hirayama
Birth Place: Tokyo
Blood Type: A
Hobbies: Photographing and collections

Miki Hirayama

Miki Hirayama is born in Tokyo. She rapidly took lessons of music in Japanese conservatory.
In 1967, she worked as staff for an ongaku kissa (music's bar, which was a popular venue for live jazz music for example) called Meitsu, in Ginza, and appeared on stage.
In 1970 she released her first single Beautiful Yokohama under the label Columbia. Her second single, Manatsu no Dekigoto was a big hit and made her a famous singer.
Being 18 years old, she has learned jazz piano from Yuzure Sera.

After an interval of 14 years, she released the album This is Miki Hirayama in 2006. This album contained arrangements of Miki' songs.
In 2007, the album Koi no Kibun de is offered for sale on October, 24th. In this album, Miki arranges famous songs like Yesterday, Fly Me to the Moon, etc.  but also her hit Manatsu no Dekigoto in bossa nova and jazz style.

In 2010, she collaborates for the single Miyako Onna feat Miki (video here). In fact, the real name of the character Miyako Onna is Miyako Yuuzuki. A spin-off has also been created for goodies.
This collaboration hits the charts for several weeks. Following this, she had another success with Kyouto Yousu Ten.
After that she successfully sang neo-enka songs and continued with important collaborations.


Then, I think some of you already know Miki Hirayama because she made some collaborations in the show Uta Doki! Pop Classics with Yuko Nakazawa, Mai Satoda, Aya Matsuura, etc.
You can buy the DVDs of this TV show for those who are interested.

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