[Et in Arcadia ego] Bonnie Pink
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There is no doubt that Kaori Asada (Kyoto, 04.16.1973), best known as Bonnie Pink, is one of the best Japanese female singers in current scene. Her extraordinary voice and her music, which mixes a lot of rhythms I love (jazz, blues, rock, R&B) are definitively the best thing could happen if you need to cheer up.
This awesome singer and composer started her professional career when she was 22 years old. Since then, she has always evolved and become a better musician. Her pseudonym comes, according to some people, from a character of a Martin Amis novel. Otakus should know her for songs as It’s gonna rain! (1998) or Cotton Candy, but some others like me like other of her extraordinary melodies. She even has a very cool cover album (REMINISCENCE, 2005) including songs as Manic Monday, Touch Me (All Night Long) and Don’t Get Me Wrong.
Besides her big talent, she has been surrounded by important musicians, as Swedish Tore Johansson (producer of The Cardigans) or Mitchell Froom (producer of Elvis Costello, Cibo Matto and Suzanne Vega). She speaks English quite well (some of her original songs are in this language) and plays guitar and piano.
As she celebrates her 10th anniversary of musical career, I share with you New Dawn (2005, in one of my Spanish-language blog posts there’s another song). You can also enjoy the videos of So Wonderful (2005), another of my favourite songs, or the emotional Private Laughter (2004).
