June 23, 2009

CK will be performing at J-WAVE 2000+9 as well as MTV VIBRATIONS'09. She's also currently in the studio recording for her new album. Which marks her 10th anniversary. The start of it will be the single featuring BoA called Girlfriend. Another song featured is a song with Taku of M-flo called "Over and Over". I've heard a piece of the song girlfriend and I really liked it. Although I really can't wait till her album comes out. If you want to hear it some of the song go to http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/play/?ir3&in_IR035-02SFL

June 21, 2009

I know that I haven't updated in a while but working full-time and doing an externship kinda makes it hard to get online a lot. But I'll have a break soon so hopefully I can do more updates. I was going to do an update now but I forgot my japanese book at school so I can't translate the info from her website. I'm still new to learning japanese. But anyhow I'll try again tomorrow.

February 26, 2009


It's Crystal Kay's 23 B-Day. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY KURI-CHAN. This year is also her 10th anniversary year. She's supposed to be coming out with a new CD sometime this year and I a few singles, plus there's the english song that was produced for Dolan's Cadillac, and I'm pretty sure that there will be a lot more stuff to come.



February 4, 2009

Happy belated New Year. I know updates have been limited but school has been nothing but a pain in the butt. Anyway onto better things. Crystal Kay is going to be featured on Boa's next single, (along with verbal). The release date is 2-18-09 and the name of the track is "Forever / UNIVERSE feat.Crystal Kay & VERBAL (m-flo) / Believe in LOVE"
Recording of "UNIVERSE feat.Crystal Kay & VERBAL (m-flo)" The single is produced by APPACHUN, Bloodshy & Avant-o. You can go here for more details http://www.avexnet.or.jp/boa/index.html Crystal Kay will also be featured on MABOROSHI's 3rd album entitled "System of MABOROSHI" due out on March 25. The track that has Crystal on it is entitled "Music Is Mine feat. Crystal Kay". You can go here for more details http://www.maboroshi-no-site.com/
I really can't wait to hear them especially the one with verbal. I love M-flo and it's been quite a while since they've come out with something new. Even if it's only verbal something is better than nothing.


December 3, 2008

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that someone did upload Crystal Kay's Color Change Tour, however the bad news is that that it was uploaded to usenet which is a pay site. I'm debating if it's worth twenty bucks, with the money I just spent on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. I feel like one of those cartoon characters that when they pull out their pockets dust comes out. Anyway if I do down load it then I'll re-encode it and post it here, because the file itself is 13GB.




November 10,2008

I know it has been a while since I updated, but real life has been getting the way. Anyway, Crystal kay's rock themed song "Hold On" (Which is all english) will be featured in Steven King's new movie called "Dolan’s Cadillac". The movie wil be released next year and is about: Tom Robinson (Wes Bentley) is a peaceful, law-abiding schoolteacher until his wife Elizabeth (Emmanuelle Vaugier) accidentally witnesses a murder. Jimmy Dolan (Christian Slater), Las Vegas¹ most ruthless and untouchable mob boss, never leaves behind a witness. Haunted by the ghost of his wife, Robinson transforms himself into an obsessed vengeance machine, pushing himself beyond the breaking point of mind, body and spirit. When the two men finally meet deep in the heart of the desert, Dolan's Cadillac climaxes with an amazing test of wills the ultimate duel. The Cadillac, which has been Dolan's armor, may just as easily become his tomb. Also this year Crystal graduated from Sophia Univeristy, she wore a traditional Japanese Hakama (pictures from her blog will be posted later) She was a social studies major taking sociology and anthropology courses. Also her album entitled "Color Change" reflects her graduation this year too. Just announced today,Crystal will have her last tour performance aired live on WOWOW on November 26 at 7:30pm. Since I have Comcast "Crappy" Cable (They took away most of the asian networks in my area) I won't be able to see it. But hopefully there will be some kind hearted person that will record and upload the concert.

August 6, 2008

CK's new album is out there's 2 all english tracks and 3 old one's (namida no saki ni, One, Shining) and rest are hot new tracks. My favorite has to be It's a crime (I've already listened to it about 50 times on my ipod.) I love the whole CD and can listen to all the tracks. That's why she's my fav j-pop artist because even though the CD's are expensive it's worth it because I can listen to every track.







July 18, 2008
The tracklist for Kuri's new CD has been released and it goes as follows:

1. 涙のさきに
2. ONE
3. Good Times
4. Help Me Out
5. ITOSHIIHITO
6. 帰り道
7. トキノカケラ
8. TIME GOES BY
9. I Can't Wait
10. Shining
11. It's a crime
12. History

It will be released August 6, 2008, also there are songs produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (famous for working with Janet Jackson) and she also has songs that were produced by Avant and Bloodshy.



July 2, 2008

Kuri's new video "One" is out it's been uploaded to CR but of course waiting for approval if you want to see it right away go to veoh. Also Kuri will be putting out a new Album/DVD combo *starts to get excited* the album will have songs that have been produced by jimmy jam and terry lewis so hopefully there will be some all english tracks on it. And the DVD will have music videos on it for "Shining" and "Namidia no Saki ni" it will be available on August 6, 2008 and title will be "Color Change!" I know I can't wait for it.


June 3, 2008

Just saw Kuri's new video, I really like the song but the video is a bit weird, it's not like the rest of her videos. It might be available on here in a few days depending on the mods, but you can watch it on veoh now if you want.



May 28, 2008

Kuri just released her 08' tour schedule it includes 11 shows at 5 different venues. I really envy the people that can go see her live. Also if you haven't heard it yet, you can hear her new song at her website http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/common/Player/player.html?/Music/Arch/ES/CrystalKay/ESCL-3068/1/sound.asx Kuri will also be performing at J-Wave 2000+8 on August 15, 2008 (Again to all the lucky bastards that live in japan....you suck)

May 10, 2008

He's a link to a kuri interview and the music in the background is her new single Namida no saki ni http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/common/Player/player.html?/Music/Arch/Common/MV/MV02-01/ES009-01/movie_h.asx If you want to know what it sounds like check it out. Personally I'm liking it.



May 2, 2008

The tracklist for Crystal Kay's new single is as follows:
1. 涙のさきに (namida no saki ni) before the tears
2. Girl Move On
3. Dream World SOIDOG MIX
4. 涙のさきに　SOIDOG MIX
5. 涙のさきに　Instrumental
Which will be available June 11, 2008

She also has a another single that will be released on July 16, 2008 that will be entitled "One"




April 26, 2008

It's official Crystal's new single Namida No Saki Ni (Before the tears) will be availabe on June 11 if you want to pre-order you can go here http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-oc-49-en-15-namida+no+saki+ni-70-2os1.html The sound is supposed to be pop-rock. (that is according to this site http://www.haruya.co.jp/rental/release.html)




April 15, 2008

It's rumored that on June 11 Crystal will be releasing a new single called Namida no saki ni. It's not an album like I was hoping for but, it's new music from Crystal so it's still great news.


March 20. 2008

Crystal Kay didn't win the Spaceshower for best female video. However she did have an amazing performance, she performed “Anata no Soba de” and “Koi ni ochitara” live. For her video “Anata no soba de”PV, she won the award “Best only SSTV edition”, a new award for PVs that have a special version only for Space Shower TV.

For those that want to know Namie Amuro Hide & Seek won best female.

March 4. 2008

I'm not really a fan of pokemon but the new movie will be released July 19, and the theme song is "One" by Crystal Kay, it's a brand new song and it will be available as a paid download on March 8 via her website www.c-kay.com and there will also be a trailer of the movie that day too.


Feb. 26, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRYSTAL KAY
She turns 22 today
*Photos of CK and cake are from http://www.j-wave.co.jp/blog/universe_tue/



Feb. 19. 2008

Crystal Kay's "The Universe Tuesday"

It her radio show that airs every Tuesday on J-Wave radio. She talks in Japanese and English. (mainly Japanese) And plays both english and japanese music. You can listen to it here: http://www.divshare.com/download/3708030-08b The official website is here: http://www.j-wave.co.jp/blog/universe_tue/ You can get pictures from the show and the playlist.


Space Shower MVA nomination
Crystal's PV “Konna ni Chikaku de” was nominated for a SPACE SHOWER Music Video Award. For Best Female Singer Category. They will announce the winners on 03.15.2008

All the nominated singers are:

TITLE: BRAND NEW DAY
ARTIST: AI

TITLE: HIDE & SEEK
ARTIST: Namie Amuro

TITLE: Konna ni chikaku de…
ARTIST: Crystal Kay

TITLE: tsunai de te
ARTIST: Hitoto You

TITLE: Biscuit
ARTIST: YUKI

I hope you win Kuri.



Crystal Kay was born to an African American father (a bassist from New Jersey) and a third-generation Zainichi (person of Korean descent born in Japan) mother who was a professional singer. Growing up with musicians as parents influenced Crystal to launch a musical career of her own, which she accomplished with her debut at age 13. Prior to this, she provided voiceover work for a television commercial at the age of six.

Crystal Kay was born and raised in Japan but she attended Kinnick High School when her father was stationed in Yokosuka. She now attends Sophia University, which is the same college Beni Arashiro currently attends; the two are reported to be good friends. She is fluent in both English and Japanese, and she has also studied French.

After the well-promoted collaboration with m-flo in 2003 and a #2 album, she became known to the public. She scored her first top 10 hit with "Motherland," which was used as the ending theme for the anime Fullmetal Alchemist in 2004.

Her best-selling single in her career so far is 2005's "Koi ni Ochitara" (If I Fall in Love) which was used in the drama Koi ni Ochitara: Boku no Seikō no Himitsu and peaked at #2 on the weekly charts, and became the 30th best selling single of 2005 with an estimated 288,629 sold. In 2006 Crystal released "Kirakuni;" her second single with a lead song that is sung in full English, the first being "Shadows of Desire". Soon after that Crystal Kay released a new album called Call me Miss... that peaked at #2 on the Weekly Oricon Album Charts.

Crystal started 2007 with a new single called "Kitto Eien ni" (Surely Forever). The single was released on January 17, 2007 and will be used as the theme song for the 2007 live-action movie of Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru ( I love my younger sister). Crystal's next single was "Konna ni Chikaku de..." (So Close...) which was released February 28, 2007, and is the ending theme to the anime Nodame Cantabile. On March 24, 2007, Crystal Kay was featured in m-flo's latest video "Love Don't Cry" for the last installment of the "m-flo loves" series. It is said that m-flo started this project with Crystal Kay and wanted to end it with her. They previously collaborated with each other in the "REEEWIND!" and "I LIKE IT" singles. Crystal then released a single called "Anata no Soba" de which was released May 16, 2007; this is her first single with only one track and is described as a love anthem with an R&B essence. Her seventh and most recent album, "ALL YOURS", which was released on June 20, 2007 premiered at #1 on the Oricon daily charts with 6,011 copies sold and continued to stay at #1 through the week. ALL YOURS is her first #1 album in her entire eight year career. As of July 23, 2007, ALL YOURS has sold approx. 121,000 copies.

On November 2007 she released a new Christmas mini-album called Shining.

From Wikkipedia