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This is a Japanese name; the family name is Funakoshi.
Rie fu (ｦﾓ Rie Fu), born Rie Funakoshi (tzｦ, Funakoshi Rie?) on January 11, 1985 in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Rie fu graduated from the Central Saint Martins college of the University of the Arts London in July 2007. She is commuting between the United Kingdom and Japan for recording and promoting her songs.
Rie fu (ｦﾓ Rie Fu), born Rie Funakoshi (tzｦ, Funakoshi Rie?) on January 11, 1985 in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Rie fu graduated from the Central Saint Martins college of the University of the Arts London in July 2007. She is commuting between the United Kingdom and Japan for recording and promoting her songs.
Biography
From 1992 to 1995, Rie fu lived in Maryland with her family. It was during this time that she began playing the piano and acquired the majority of her musical inspirations, being greatly influenced by Sheryl Crow, Michelle Branch and 1970s pop musicians such as The Carpenters.
After returning to Japan, from 1995 to 2003, Rie finished her primary and secondary education in Tokyo. In 2002 she learned guitar, and almost immediately began coming up with songs and recording them with a small tape recorder. She sent the demo tape off to a record company (Sony) and they signed her. Her first single was released in March 2004. Later that year, her song "Life is Like a Boat" was chosen as the Bleach ending theme, garnering her widespread recognition and demand. In 2005, a year after her debut, another song, I Wanna Go To A Place... was used as the Gundam Seed Destiny third ending song, and in 2006 her song Until I Say was used as the theme to the Japanese release of the 2005 British movie Heidi. In 2007, she performed the ending theme, Tsukiakari, to the anime series Darker than Black.
She graduated from the University of the Arts London in 2007, after studying fine art painting (after shifts in interest ranging from fashion to graphic design). She states in her website that she would like to become a student again. Rie often designs much of her own album and single booklets, and Rie's own paintings are often featured in them.
Her favorite artists include Aimee Mann, Beck, Ben Harper, The Doors, Fiona Apple, Jack Johnson, Moby Grape, and Mazzy Star among others, and she respects Carole King, Joni Mitchell, The Carpenters, and Yumi Matsutoya.
Rie fu's songs are often bilingual, since she is fluent in both English and Japanese. Although most of her songs are primarily sung in Japanese, many feature entire verses written in English. Of her songs written entirely in Japanese, at least two have later been released with English language versions.
Discography
Singles
Rie who!? (2004-03-24)
Life is Like a Boat (2004-09-23) (Used in the anime Bleach as an ending song)
I Wanna Go To A Place... (2005-04-27) (Used in the anime Gundam SEED Destiny as an ending song)
ﾋｪ｢ｲﾆ (Negaigoto) (2005-08-31)
Tiny Tiny Melody (2006-03-08)
Until I Say (2006-07-19)
cLAJ (Tsukiakari) (2007-05-23) (Used in the anime Darker than Black as an ending song)
5000 Miles (2007-09-05)
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