Kawada Mami Biography
Mami Kawada (川田まみ Kawada Mami) is a J-pop singer who is currently signed to Geneon Entertainment Inc. She is also a member of I’ve Sound which performs soundtracks for some eroge games. Mami was usually paired up with co-I’ve member KOTOKO when making soundtracks for animes. Examples of these are Onegai Teacher, Onegai Twins, Starship Operators, Shakugan no Shana, BALDR Force EXE Resolution OVA, and Hayate no Gotoku, where KOTOKO will perform the opening theme while Mami will perform the ending theme or vice versa. Her debut single radiance which was released on February 23, 2005 was used as an opening theme for the anime Starship Operators. Her most successful single was JOINT, which was released on October 31, 2007 and used as the first opening theme for Shakugan no Shana II. She is known also for the opening songs for the To aru majutsu no Index, PSI-Missing and Masterpiece. Mami Kawada’s vocal talent was first discovered by Eiko Shimamiya, who was a teacher at a vocal school in Sapporo, Hokkaido. She was then introduced to I’ve Sound, a music production group where Shimamiya is, and Kawada would soon become attached to. In 2001, her debut song with the I’ve Sound was to perform “Kaze to Kimi wo Daite” which was the opening theme for the eroge “miss you”. The song was featured in the I’ve Sound’s 5th Compilation Album entitled “OUT FLOW”. Since then, great numbers of theme songs for dating sim or visual novel games are offered for her to perform.
