Lisa
Japanese singer LiSA is known for her upbeat and emotive pop sound and many anime-related theme songs. She first came to the public's attention as the frontwoman with the band Chucky before launching her solo career with 2012's Lover's Mile, which reached number seven on Japan's Oricon Albums Chart. All of her solo albums have hit the Top Ten, including 2013's Landspace, 2015's Launcher, and 2017's Little Devil Parade. LiSA also garnered fans for her many anime songs, singing themes to such titles as Sword Art Online, Fate/Zero, The Irregular at Magic High School, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, and many others. In 2020, she topped both the Oricon Albums and Billboard Japan's Hot Albums charts with her fifth solo album, Leo-Nine.
Born Risa Oribe in 1987 in Seki, Gifu Prefecture, LiSA took piano lessons growing up and later added vocal and dance classes. By her teens, she had formed a cover band, playing songs by some of her favorite artists, including Avril Lavigne, Ego Wrappin', Love Psychedelico, and others. This group eventually morphed into the indie rock outfit Chucky, with whom LiSA performed from 2005 until they broke up in 2008.
Following the end of Chucky, LiSA relocated to Tokyo to pursue a solo career. There, she formed the group Love Is Same All with members of the band Parking Out. The project quickly became centered on Oribe, who was soon performing under her stage name LiSA (an acronym of the band's name). It was also during the early 2010s that LiSA gained wider attention singing songs as part of the fictional band Girls Dead Monster, featured in an anime series of the same name. As Girls Dead Monster, she released several singles, including "Thousand Enemies" and "Braver." Buoyed by the attention, LiSA made her official solo debut in 2011 with the mini-album Letters to U. Included on the set was the Top Five single "Oath Sign," which was also used as the theme for the anime series Fate/Zero.
Her debut full-length, Lover's Mile, arrived in 2012, peaking at number seven on the Oricon album charts. On the heels of the album's release, LiSA appeared as a guest at the 2012 Anime Expo in Los Angeles, where she also headlined her first North American concert. More anime soundtrack work followed, including scoring a Top Five hit with "Crossing Field," the theme to Sword Art Online. In 2013, she released her sophomore full-length, Landspace, which peaked at number two on the Oricon chart. LiSA continued to release singles in connection with anime projects, scoring numerous Top Ten hits, including "Rising Hope" (the theme to 2014's The Irregular at Magic High School) and "Shirushi" (which was featured as an ending theme in 2014's Sword Art Online II).
LiSA's third album, Launcher, arrived in March 2015, peaking at number three on the Oricon album chart. That same year, she released the song "Rally Go Round" as the theme to the second season of the anime TV series Nisekoi. She also voiced the character of Madge Nelson in the Japanese dub version of the animated film Minions. Following a 2016 mini-album, Lucky Hi Five!, LiSA released "Brave Freak Out" as the theme to the anime series Qualidea Code. She also issued "Catch the Moment" as the theme to 2017's Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale. Both songs were included on her fourth album, Little Devil Parade, which arrived in 2017 and reached number four on the Oricon chart. The following year, she supplied the song "Thrill, Risk, Heartless" as the theme song for the video game Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet. Also in 2018, she released two compilations, LiSA Best Day and LiSA Best Way.
In October 2020, LiSA issued her fifth full-length album, Leo-Nine, which featured production and songwriting collaborations with Pablo, Ryo Eguchi, Koichiro Takahashi, and Shota Horie. It debuted on top of both the Oricon Albums Chart and Billboard Japan's Hot Albums Chart. Included on the record was the single "Adamas," which had also been used as the first opening theme to the anime Sword Art Online: Alicization. Also that October, she scored a number one with the non-album single "Homura," which was used as the theme to the anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train and won the Grand Prize at the 62nd Japan Record Awards. More singles arrived in 2021, including "Dawn," which served as the theme song to the anime Back Arrow. Later that year, she teamed up with DJ Snake, Ozuna, and Megan Thee Stallion on the Billboard-charting "SG."
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紅蓮華 - From THE FIRST TAKE
Anime - Erschienen bei THE FIRST TAKE MUSIC am 25.12.2020
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炎 - From THE FIRST TAKE
Anime - Erschienen bei THE FIRST TAKE MUSIC am 16.11.2021
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「鬼滅の刃」無限列車編 オリジナルサウンドトラック
Anime - Erschienen bei Aniplex Inc. am 14.12.2022
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再会 (produced by Ayase)
J-Pop - Erschienen bei Sony Music Labels Inc. am 16.11.2020
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Catch the Moment - From THE FIRST TAKE
Anime - Erschienen bei THE FIRST TAKE MUSIC am 16.11.2021
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LiSA BEST -Way
Anime - Erschienen bei Sony Music Labels Inc. am 09.05.2018
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LiTTLE DEViL PARADE
Anime - Erschienen bei Sony Music Labels Inc. am 24.05.2017
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crossing field
Anime - Erschienen bei Aniplex Inc. am 08.08.2012
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crossing field (TOKYO MACHINE Remix) - SACRA BEATS Singles
Dance - Erschienen bei Aniplex Inc. am 19.11.2021
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LiSA BEST -Day
Anime - Erschienen bei Sony Music Labels Inc. am 09.05.2018
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SG
DJ Snake, Ozuna, Megan Thee Stallion, Lisa
Pop - Erschienen bei DJ Snake Music Productions Limited am 22.10.2021
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Akai wana who loves it? / ADAMAS
Anime - Erschienen bei Sony Music Labels Inc. am 08.10.2018
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