Ritsuko Okazaki

Subject: Ritsuko Okazaki Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:16 pm

Ritsuko Okazaki
岡崎律子
Born December 29, 1959
Origin Hashima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture
Died May 5, 2004
Genres J-Pop
Occupations Singer, song-writer, lyricist
Instruments Vocals, piano
Years active 1993 - 2004
Labels Star Child
Associated acts Melocure

Ritsuko Okazaki was born in Hashima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture on 29 December, 1959. She was 1.58m tall and was born left-handed. During her childhood, she was forced by her mother to use her right hand. However, after hearing that it was bad to force her to use her right hand, her mother quickly advised her to use her natural hand.
During her school days, she spent lots of time in the bakery where she worked part time, and practiced with her band, Eleanor. She was then in charge of the chorus and piano.

Career
Okazaki made her debut as a singer-songwriter in 1993. During the nineties, she continued singing and also wrote songs for seiyūs.
From 2000, she became more involved with anime and composed several songs for Wedding Peach, Fruits Basket and Love Hina. She formed the duo, Melocure in 2002 with singer-songwriter Megumi Hinata.
In the following two years, the duo released several singles and an album, Melodic Hard Cure. Okazaki also produced songs during these years for artists such as Megumi Hayashibara, Mayumi Iizuka, and Yui Horie.
Her work consists mainly of ballads and can be categorised within the spectrum of Japanese music as most closely related to J-Pop. According to her fans, the lyrics of Okazaki's songs are characterized by poetic imagery, depth of emotion, gentle optimism and simplicity.

Death
On May 5, 2004, Ritsuko Okazaki died suddenly at the age of 44 from septic shock as a result of septicemia.[2] She was unable to speak any last words, and left her work unfinished.
Before that, she was found having stomach cancer in 2003 but she still continued on her work and only such information was hidden other than little related person, the news was revealed to the fans in the CD jacket of the soundtrack placed in renewed version of Symphonic Rain, which was released a year later after her death.

Subject: Re: Ritsuko Okazaki Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:08 pm

a genius but she died too young grrr..

Subject: Re: Ritsuko Okazaki Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:08 pm

TOO BAD SHE DIED

Subject: Re: Ritsuko Okazaki Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:46 am

yah .. it's so sad .. Crying or Very sad

Subject: Re: Ritsuko Okazaki Wed May 05, 2010 5:00 pm

That whats good about japanese..even in death they are still very popular.

Subject: Re: Ritsuko Okazaki Fri May 07, 2010 1:32 am

yes they are !! Crying or Very sad