29 Facts About Ringo Sheena

Yumiko Shiina, known by her stage name Ringo Sheena, is a Japanese singer, songwriter and musician.

Ringo Sheena is the founder and lead vocalist of the band Tokyo Jihen.

Ringo Sheena was ranked number 36 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians compiled by HMV in 2003.

Ringo Sheena subsequently made singles "Kabukicho no Joo" and "Koko de Kiss Shite", the latter becoming her first hit.

Ringo Sheena chose a hospital as the setting for the music video for "Honno".

Ringo Sheena released the single "Mayonaka wa Junketsu" in March 2001, with the intention of including it on a third album.

In 2004, Ringo Sheena undertook the role of music director for the stage play KKP No 004 Lens, which is based on the story of her short film Tanpen Kinema Hyaku-Iro Megane.

In late 2006, Ringo Sheena announced that she would resume work as a solo artist as the Music Director for the 2007 film Sakuran.

In June 2007, Ringo Sheena was asked to compose music for the kabuki Sannin Kichisa by Kanzaburo Nakamura, for which she composed the ending theme "Tamatebako".

In September 2008, Ringo Sheena provided Japanese boy band Tokio with two songs for their singles.

In February 2009, Ringo Sheena had written music for Japanese rock duo Puffy AmiYumi.

In March 2009, Sheena Ringo received the newcomer Fine Arts Award in the Popular Culture category from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

On December 2,2009, Ringo Sheena released the single "Nodoteki Sanpunkan" with Tokyo Jihen after an interval of about two years.

Ringo Sheena provided a cover of "Uta" for the January 29,2020 Buck-Tick tribute album Parade III ~Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick~.

Ringo Sheena is an accomplished musician and songwriter who writes music spanning numerous genres.

Ringo Sheena is well known for her eccentricity, rolling her "r"s and creating promotional music videos with striking visuals.

Ringo Sheena admired Eddi Reader's voice, but felt her own voice was not as clear and sounded hoarse.

Ringo Sheena admired Janis Ian's singing and wrote "Seventeen" in tribute to Ian's "At Seventeen".

Ringo Sheena mainly plays rhythm guitar, but she plays other musical instruments.

Ringo Sheena said that "Ringo" originated from her class nickname when she often blushed in public, and from the Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr.

Ringo Sheena declared recently that she followed the naming of the pen name of her favorite manga artist, Sensha Yoshida.

Ringo Sheena thought that those who heard her name would be shocked by that.

The Duesenberg Starplayer guitar which Ringo Sheena has used recorded historical sales of around 1000 units in Japan in 2000.

I-No, a character from the fighting game series Guilty Gear, is modeled after Ringo Sheena, wields a similar guitar as a weapon, and shares her birthday.

Jack Barnett of These New Puritans, who was visiting Japan for the Summer Sonic 2008 festival, said in an interview that he was a great fan of Ringo Sheena and bought all her works while he was there, as they were not available in the United Kingdom.

Ringo Sheena received a mention in The Guardian as one of Japan's artists who "deserve to be seen and heard in the west" in 2010.

Ringo Sheena was born with an esophageal atresia in which the esophagus narrows as it approaches the stomach.

In November 2000, Ringo Sheena married guitarist Junji Yayoshi, who was a member of her backing band Gyakutai Glycogen.

Ringo Sheena addressed these rumours publicly during her Totaikai concerts in November 2013, announcing that she gave birth in spring of 2013 to a girl.