Mami Kawada

Mami Kawada (川田まみ) is a J-singer who is currently signed to Geneon Entertainment Inc. She is also a member of the I've Sound who performs soundtracks for some eroge. Mami was usually paired up with co-I've member Kotoko when making soundtracks for anime. Examples of these are Onegai Teacher, Onegai Twins, Starship Operators, Shakugan no Shana, Baldr Force EXE Resolution OVA, and Hayate no Gotoku wherein 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 the sequel of the anime series Shakugan no Shana. 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" (風と君を抱いて) 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. In 2002, she began performing anime theme songs and at the same time, still performing theme songs for visual novel games. Kawada performed the ending theme for the anime Please Teacher! entitled "Sora no Mori de" (空の森で) while co-I've Sound singer Kotoko performed the opening theme entitled "Shooting Star". At the same year, Kawada and Shimamiya grouped themselves as the band Healing Leaf and performed some theme songs for visual novel games but only one song was featured in the I've Girls Compilation which was "Ame ni Utau Ballad" (雨に歌う譚詩曲). In mid-2003, she got her second anime tie-up with Please Twins!, the spin-off sequel of previous anime tie-in Please Teacher!. Kawada performed the ending theme entitled "Asu e no Namida" (明日への涙) while Kotoko does the opening theme entitled "Second Flight" together with J-pop singer Hiromi Satō. In June 2009, Kawada released her maxi single "L'Oiseau bleu" which means "Blue Bird" in French. This single is also present in the I've Sound 10th Anniversary 「Departed to the future」 Special CD BOX which was released earlier by their group last March 25, 2009. Kawada sung the opening and ending themes for the original video animation series of Shakugan no Shana entitled Shakugan no Shana S, making this her fifth tie-in with said anime series. The opening theme entitled "Prophecy" will come out as a maxi single which will be released on November 18, 2009. The ending theme is entitled "All in Good Time".