Masami Okui
Japanese singer-songwriter

Masami Okui

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Japanese singer-songwriter
Gender:
Female
Places:
Japan
Is:
SingerMusicianComposerLyricistSongwriterRadio personality
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & RadioMusic
Birth:
13 March 1968(Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan)
Star sign:
Pisces
Genres:
J-popAnime songRock music
Instruments:
Voice
Education:
Osaka University of Arts
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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Masami Okui (奥井 雅美, Okui Masami, born March 13, 1968) is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Itami, Hyōgo. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer. From almost the very beginning of her career, Masami has sung themes for anime television and movies. She is especially well known for her songs from Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tales of Eternia The Animation, Slayers, Sorcerer Hunters, Di Gi Charat, Magic User's Club, Jungle de Ikou!, Akihabara Dennou Gumi, Ray the Animation, He Is My Master and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. She has performed material for more than 50 singles and 20 albums to date (including her work with JAM Project and Chihiro Yonekura). Okui hosts @Tunes, an anime music news program, on the Japanese anime television network Animax.

Biography

Okui began her music career as a concert backup singer for Yuki Saito in November 1989.Her first solo single "Dare Yori mo Zutto" was released in 1993, and was used as a theme song for the anime OAV The Girl from Phantasia.She sang with voice actress Megumi Hayashibara for the anime television series Slayers in 1995.In 2003, she teamed up with fellow artist Chihiro Yonekura to form the group r.o.r/s, an acronym for "Reflections of Renaissance/Sounds".She also became a member of the supergroup JAM Project, which released the single "Little Wing" that served as the opening theme song for the anime television series Scrapped Princess.She left Starchild Records and produced her own record label called "evolution", which lasted from 2003. In 2011, she ended her evolution label, left Geneon Universal Entertainment, and signed with Lantis.

Okui is a regular performer in the Animelo Summer Live annual concerts from "The Bridge" in 2005 to "Rainbow" in 2011. In October 2008, she went to Mexico with JAM Project where they performed at the Expo TNT 16.She also performed in 2012 for EXPO TNT GT 6.

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album information Oricon
peak
position
Gyuu
  • Release date: April 21, 1995
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-482
 47
V-sit
  • Release date: September 21, 1996
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-586
 19
Ma-KING
  • Release date: September 26, 1997
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-642
 12
Do-Can
  • Release date: September 23, 1998
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-695
 12
Her-Day
  • Release date: August 27, 1999
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-744
 18
NEEI
  • Release date: August 23, 2000
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-822
 11
Devotion
  • Release date: August 29, 2001
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-890
 30
Crossroad
  • Release date: September 4, 2002
  • Label: King Records
  • Cat. No.: KICS-964
 34
Masami Kobushi (マサミコブシ)
  • Release date: May 1, 2003
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-1017
 17
ReBirth
  • Release date: February 4, 2004
  • Label: King Records
  • Cat. No.: KICS-1061
 49
Dragonfly
  • Release date: February 2, 2005
  • Label: evolution
  • Cat. No.: EVCA-0001
 68
God Speed
  • Release date: February 24, 2006
  • Label: evolution
  • Cat. No.: EVCA-0002
 111
Evolution
  • Release date: October 4, 2006
  • Label: evolution
  • Cat. No.: EVCA-0003
 60
Masami Life
  • Release date: October 3, 2007
  • Label: evolution
  • Cat. No.: EVCA-0005
 110
Akasha
  • Release date: February 25, 2009
  • Label: evolution
  • Cat. No. EVCA-0010
 68
Self Satisfaction
  • Release date: August 21, 2009
  • Label: evolution
  • Cat. No.: EVCA-0014
  • 1st album full of self-cover songs
 127
i-magination
  • Release date: February 23, 2010
  • Label: Dwango User Entertainment
  • Cat. No.: DGEA-10001
 95
Self Satisfaction II
  • Release date: February 2, 2011
  • Label: Dwango User Entertainment
  • Cat. No.: DGEA-10002
  • 2nd album full of self-cover songs
 113
Love Axel
  • Release date: July 4, 2012
  • Label: Lantis
  • Cat. No.: LACA-35215
 43
Symbolic Bride
  • Release date: June 10, 2015
  • Label: Lantis
  • Cat. No.: LACA-15487
 65
Happy End
  • Release date: August 21, 2018
  • Label: Lantis
  • Cat. No.: LACA-15740
 74

Compilation albums

Title Album information Oricon
Peak
position
BEST-EST
  • Release date: June 4, 1999
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-723/4
  • 1st live album
 21
Li-Book 2000
  • Release date: November 22, 2000
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-831
  • 2nd live album
 61
S-mode#1
  • Release date: March 21, 2001
  • Label: Starchild
  • Cat. No.: KICS-873/4
  • 1st compilation album
 26
S-mode#2
  • Release date: February 25, 2004
  • Label: King Records
  • Cat. No.: KICS-1068/9
  • 2nd compilation album
 50
S-mode#3
  • Release date: February 23, 2005
  • Label: King Records
  • Cat. No.: KICS-1148/9
  • 3rd compilation album
 76
Ooku (大奥)
  • Release date: February 6, 2008
  • Label: evolution
  • Cat. No.: EVCA-0006
 78

Other albums

Title Album information Oricon
Peak
position
Angel's Voice
  • Release date: November 22, 2002
  • Label: King Records
  • Cat. No.: KICS-982
  • 1st mini-album
 67

Singles

Year Title / Notes Oricon
peak
position 		Album
1993 "Dare yori mo zutto..." (誰よりもずっと…) — Gyuu
1993 "Yume ni Konnichiwa -Tanoshii Willow Town-" — BEST-EST
1994 "I Was Born To Fall in Love" 92 Gyuu
1994 "Reincarnation" 83
1994 "My Jolly Days" 92
1994 "It's Destiny" 80
1995 "Get Along"
(featuring Megumi Hayashibara) 		36 BEST-EST
1995 "Mask"
(featuring Kasumi Matsumura) 		48 V-sit
1996 "Shake It" 81
1996 "Jama wa Sasenai" 9
1996 "Naked Mind" 38 Ma-KING
1997 "J" 79
1997 "Rondo-Revolution" 26
1997 "Souda, zettai." 45
1998 "Birth" 32 Do-Can
1998 "Shu -Aka" 32
1998 "Never Die" 32 Her-Day
1999 "Key" 49
1999 "Tenshi no Kyuusoku" 20
1999 "Kitto Ashita wa" 51
1999 "Labyrinth/Toki ni Ai wa" 29
1999 "Sore wa Totsuzen Yattekuru" 44 NEEI
1999 "Only One, No. 1" 34
2000 "Over The End" 45
2000 "Turning Point" 47
2000 "Cutie" 45
2000 "Just Do It" 60
2001 "Sora ni Kakeru Hashi" 28 Devotion
2001 "Megami ni Naritai ~for a yours~" 43
2001 "Shuffle" 55
2001 "Deportation: but, never too late" 53
2002 "Happy Place" 86 Crossroad
2003 "Second Impact" 56 ReBirth
2004 "Olive" 69 Dragonfly
2005 "Trust" 37 God Speed
2006 "Mitsu" 79
2006 "Zero -G-" 64 Evolution
2006 "Wild Spice" 82
2007 "Remote Viewing" 96 Masami Life
2007 "It's My Life" 97
2007 "Ring" 160
2007 "Insanity" 57 Akasha
2008 "Melted Snow" 121
2009 "Starting Over" 92 i-magination
2009 "Miracle Upper WL"
(featuring May'n) 		67
2009 "Sparking/No Dream, No Life" — —
2010 "Renka Tairan" 35 Love Axel
2012 "Sora no Uta" 38
2015 "Takarabako -TREASURE BOX-" 15 Symbolic Bride
2017 "Innocent Bubble" 124 HAPPY END
2017 "Sophia" 152 HAPPY END

Videos

Star Child
  1. Ma-KING Concert '97
  2. Do-can Diary
  3. A-Day
  4. Live in Hibiya -no cut-
  5. B-Day
  6. Document '00
  7. Birth Live '01
  8. C-Day
  9. Live Devotion
King Records
  1. V-mode −10th Anniversary-
Evolution
  1. GIGS 2004 ReBirth
  2. GIGS 2005 Dragonfly
  3. GIGS 2006 GodSpeed
  4. GIGS 2006 Evolution