Maaya Sakamoto made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime Little Twins, and became known as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne.
15 Facts About Maaya Sakamoto
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Maaya Sakamoto released her debut single "Yakusoku wa Iranai" in collaboration with Yoko Kanno under Victor Entertainment on April 24,1996.
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Maaya Sakamoto's albums have had similar success, with Shonen Alice and Yunagi Loop both reaching the top 10 Oricon albums chart; and her album You Can't Catch Me, released on January 12,2011, became her first release to ever reach number 1.
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Maaya Sakamoto held a concert at the Nippon Budokan on March 31,2010, her thirtieth birthday.
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Maaya Sakamoto started working as a voice actress in a very early age and the first leading role she was given was in the 1993 OVA Little Twins.
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Maaya Sakamoto performed theme songs for several anime series, including Clamp School Detectives, Record of Lodoss War and Cardcaptor Sakura.
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Maaya Sakamoto worked almost exclusively with Kanno and company for almost a decade.
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In 2003, Maaya Sakamoto made her debut as a theatre actress on the Japanese version of the musical Les Miserables, playing the role of Eponine.
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In 2008, Maaya Sakamoto worked with Yoko Kanno for her 15th single, "Triangler", which was used as opening theme for the TV anime series Macross Frontier.
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The single ended up becoming Maaya Sakamoto's biggest selling single to date, with more than 90,000 copies sold.
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For promoting this album, Maaya Sakamoto began her first low-scale national tour, on which she held three concerts in Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo.
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On September 25,2017, The NHK Anime World website revealed that Maaya Sakamoto will perform "Clear", the opening song for the Anime Adaptation of Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card.
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Maaya Sakamoto first teamed up with composer Yoko Kanno in her 1996 debut single, "Yakusoku wa Iranai", which was used as the opening theme for the anime series The Vision of Escaflowne.
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Maaya Sakamoto performed the song "cream" with HIDE, which was featured in the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex mini album be Human.
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Maaya Sakamoto graduated from Toyo University with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology in 2002.