This girl's been getting some buzz for a while, I'm surprised there's no thread yet...
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Kylee Saunders is a singer/songwriter born to an American father and Japanese mother. She is a fast-rising star who is getting the best out of both the US and Japanese music scenes.
Birthday: May 25, 1994
Blood type: O
Height: 163cm
Official website: http://www.kylee.jp (http://www.kylee.jp)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylee_official (https://twitter.com/kylee_official)
Facebook fan page: https://www.facebook.com/kyleeofficialfanpage (https://www.facebook.com/kyleeofficialfanpage)
Sang the national anthem at a Portland Trailblazers game at the age of 11:
Kylee at age 11 National Anthem NBA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQZ_iWTfl9A#)
At 15 was the youngest artist ever to perform at the annual Summer Sonic music festival:
Kylee - VACANCY@SUMMER SONIC09 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX-eN4ZTLjU#)
Also made an appearance at Otakon 2011 in Baltimore:
The Aftershow: Otakon 2011 - Kylee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_oyLe9wEoU#ws)
And here's her latest song, "Mirai":
Kylee 未来 CDTV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD_kRE003yc#ws)
I was able to catch her perform in San Francisco at this year's J-Pop Summit Festival...here are a couple photos I took:
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I can't help but picture her as a more rock-oriented version of Utada, being American-born and bilingual, as well as possessing a fairly powerful voice...fittingly enough, she cited Hikki as one of her favorite singers. So far I like her songs "Vacancy" and "Kimi ga Iru Kara", as well as a third one she performed that I can't seem to remember the title of.