Kotoko (musician)

Kotoko
Kotoko at Animazement in 2012
Background information
Birth name石田琴子[1]
Ishida Kotoko
BornJanuary 19[a]
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • singer
  • songwriter
InstrumentVocals
Years active2000–present
Labels
Websitekotoko.asia

Kotoko (stylized as KOTOKO, born January 19[a]) is a Japanese J-pop musician, singer, and songwriter from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She began her singing career in 2000, debuting as a member of the trance group I've Sound and releasing her first mini-album Sora o Tobetara that same year. She was then signed to the Rondorobe record label from 2004 to 2010, under which she released the albums Hane, Garasu no Kaze, Uzu-Maki and Epsilon no Fune. She signed to Warner Home Video in 2011, and remained with the label until 2018. She is currently signed with NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan.

Kotoko composes and writes lyrics (for herself as well as other singers in I've Sound) for numerous other song collections. She has contributed songs to numerous anime and video games including Please Teacher!, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Hourglass of Summer, Hayate the Combat Butler, Kannazuki no Miko,[2] Shakugan no Shana, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, To Love-Ru,[3] Accel World, Phantasy Star Online and Argevollen, among others.

  1. ^ "四川省文化厅关于同意日本艺人石田琴子等来川演出的批复". www.sccnt.gov.cn. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  2. ^ DeMott, Rick (June 30, 2006). "Geneon Releases Kannazuki No Miko, Strawberry Marshmallow, Elemental Gelade". Animation World Network. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
  3. ^ "To Love-Ru/Pokémon Promos, GeGeGe Film's 1st 9 Minutes Posted". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 23, 2014.


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