- Youmi Kimura
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Name = Yumi Kimura
木村 弓
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Background = solo_singer
Alias = Kimura Yumi
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Origin = flagicon|JPNOsaka Prefecture ,Japan
Genre =Japanese pop
Occupation =Singer
Years_active = 1988–present
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URL = [http://www.youmi-kimura.com Youmi-Kimura.com]Yumi Kimura (木村 弓 "Kimura Yumi") is a Japanese singer and
lyre performer. She was born inOsaka , Japan, and became famous in2001 for her song "Always With Me" (いつも何度でも Itsumo Nando Demo), which served as the closing theme to the popular2001 anime film "Spirited Away " byHayao Miyazaki .Kimura and Miyazaki had great admiration for each other's worksFact|date=August 2008. She was so moved by his
1997 film "Princess Mononoke " (Mononoke Hime, もののけ姫, in Japan), that she wrote a letter to him, enclosed with a copy of her album. Miyazaki wrote her back and mentioned to her about a film he was currently working on called "Rin the Chimney Cleaner" (煙突描きのリン "Entotsu-kaki no Rin"). Hoping Miyazaki would use her material on this film, Kimura, with her lyricist Wakako Kaku (覚 和歌子), wrote a new song called “Itsumo Nando Demo” (Always With Me). Miyazaki did like the song, and intended to use it, but the "Rin" project was eventually scrappedFact|date=August 2008.Later, Miyazaki started working on his next film "Spirited Away", and listened to the song again. Throughout the entire production, he would listen to it obsessivelyFact|date=August 2008. He would later realize that Kimura's song about finding
inner peace meshed perfectly with hiscoming of age story of a girl who finds her inner strength.Kimura worked with Miyazaki on "Howl's Moving Castle", providing a song for it. (ハウルの動く城 Hauru no Ugoku Shiro).
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1175835/ IMDb entry for Youmi Kimura]
* [http://www.youmi-kimura.com Youmi Kimura's official website (Japanese)]
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