Jun Futamata

Jun Futamata

Composer/Singer/Lyrics She expresses a one-of-a-kind sound world with her innocent and clear voice and her unique compositional style that builds on layers of voices. She studied bebop method and improvisation based on chord progression in New York. At the same time, she repeatedly had improvisation sessions with talented musicians at a jazz club in New York. Since returning to Japan, she has sung vocals, chorus and chorus arrangements for TV commercials and many major artists' works. Her fragile voice and excellent chorus work have been well received by audiences. She has sung the TV animation series "Pokémon", "Star Twinkle Pretty Cure", the official "Disney" cover albums, the official theme song for the "Tokyo Marathon" one of the world's three major marathons, the theme song for Japan National Broadcasting Corporation's "Science ZERO", the movies "One Day You Will Reach the Sea", "Sing a Bit of Harmony", "Paradise Kiss" and the TV series "Brush up life", "Emergency Interrogation Room", "The Hours of My Life". She has also been featured in numerous projects, including corporate commercials for "Tokyo Promotion Video" which is Airing on CNN International,National Geographic Channel, CBS and CNN/US, "Pizza Hut", "L'OCCITANE", "BANDAI" and "Mitsui Real Estate" as well as singing radio jingles for "J-wave", "TokyoFM", "FM Yokohama" and "Japan FM Network". Her voice has been highly acclaimed in many aspects, including her participation in the Oricon Chart No.1, iTunes Chart No.1, and Dance Chart No.1 for 6 weeks in a row. In 2021, she released her first collection of works as a solo artist, "GRAVITY" which reached No.1 on the iTunes New Age Chart. In addition to participating as a performer in the "International Art Festival SACP", she is active in many other fields, including the " trailer movie for the "SonyPark Exhibition" in Ginza, Tokyo, fashion shows, and installation musics. In January 2023, she was in charge of the soundtrack for the TV anime series "REVENGER" (director: Masaya Fujimori, original story: Gen Urobuchi). She also will release her second album recorded in Iceland, the place where her inspiration originated. Her latest work, which attracts a wide range of listeners from classical, ambient, and contemporary music to environmental music, minimal, post-classical, and electronica, is highly anticipated.