What is the attitude of Japanese music fans hearing a Japanese artist performing in English?
I think more people are more interested in English or some other language in music these days, even if it’s sung by Japanese artists. Compared to 5 or 10 years before, many different genres are more openly accepted in Japanese communities… I guess. Have you performed outside of Japan? As SAWA, no I haven’t yet. But if I include the one I sang at the High School Cultural Festival, Yes. That was the first time I sang on a stage (and it was not in Japan!). My friends and I performed a contemporary Japanese pop-song in Japanese at the high school’s auditorium, and many students loved its melody and it was great to hear them singing the repeated phrases together by the time the song ended. Through this experience, I learned that music is able to crossover the cultural and language differences and bring us together at the same time. Do you have some favorite slogans that show how you see the world? “To thine own self be true!” (I just came up with this phrase now, I never thought about our
