Zard - Wikipedia. Zard(. Originally a group of five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as group leader. However, Sakai was the only member who stayed on in the group while others joined and left regularly. As such, Zard and Sakai may be referred to interchangeably.
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Zard's work was sold under the record label B- Gram Records, Inc. Their most popular and successful songs are .
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As of 2. 01. 4, Zard has sold over 3. Japan. Zard began when Being Corporation former CEO Daik. Changing her name to Izumi Sakai in an attempt to cut off her past, she created a group called Zard. While whether the supporting members were firmly decided on is not clear, Zard made a breakthrough with the release of their debut single February 1.
Good- bye My Loneliness, which was a theme song for the Fuji TV drama . The song was very successful, reaching No. Oricon rankings. Zard's next two singles did not sell as well. The group's rock style had morphed to popular while the seemingly dark music videos turned to a relatively brighter image.
In fact, half of Zard's official appearances on TV were related to performing this song, which sold 4. At that time, Music Station host Kazuyoshi Morita (aka Tamori) asked Sakai what took Zard so long to be on stage. Sakai's reply was that they wanted to make sure Zard would be an economically viable project and hence did not want to go public prematurely.
The major breakthrough for Zard came with the sixth single in 1. Oricon charts and went on to sell over 1. She went on to release two more songs that reached No. In fact, Being was so successful in the early 1. Being Boom. No one sold more CDs than Zard in this year. In 1. 99. 5, Zard sold one more million hit, . Although her sales fluctuated among six digits in sales for the remainder of the twentieth century, nine of twenty- one singles reached No.
Only two could not break the top four mark. On August 3. 1, 1. Zard held their first concert aboard cruise ship Pacific Venus, where six hundred people were randomly selected out of a million applicants. The DVD for this concert, released on January 2. Sakai was also a very prolific lyricist. She wrote 1. 50 songs during her 1. Zard songs except for two, Koionna no Y.
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An editorial in Asahi Shimbun writes that the secret to Zard's success was that while the trend in Japan showed a decrease in the number of music programs on television, Zard used late night commercials that aired her voice to advertise her works. She also wrote songs for other artists, most notably for the J- pop groups that shared her management company: Field of View, Wands and Deen, and the late mainland Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng. She also wrote the lyrics for and participated in the collaboration for the single .
The single also featured famed Japanese baseball hero Shigeo Nagashima. Some of her singles were used in anime, such as Slam Dunk, Dragon Ball GT and Detective Conan. Afterward, Zard covered this song in Today Is Another Day album. Zard's most successful single, Makenaide(. Sakai said that she was honored and looked forward to watching 2. TV. She also said that since Makenaide was widely appreciated by the public, she often felt as if that song was not hers to keep.
Zard was also known for being mysterious. This is partially because her record label did not release too much personal information on their artists, and also because she did not make that many personal appearances.
She rarely appeared on any live TV music programs (e. TV Asahi's Music Station), which the main public relations tool for the record industry in Japan, since 1. Her first concert was in 1. Her first real concert tour, . Almost every single concert was sold out at the time.
The tour ended up having 1. March to July 2. 00. Nippon Budokan. Although originally Zard is a group, Zard was frequently regarded as a solo female singer in Japan. Japan. 1 spot on the Oricon Singles Charts, and 9 albums reach the No.
Oricon Album Charts. Oricon ranking. Zard has released a total of 4.
Zard was also featured in Tak Matsumoto's Ihoujin (August 2. On a trivial note, Zard's album . Oricon Rankings since it began in 1. Oricon. Post- Izumi Sakai Zard. NTV Morning News program, Zoom In Super's December 2. Being. Surprisingly, Makenaide and Yureru Omoi were not in the top 3, though they made the top 1.
The three most voted songs were 1) Ano Hohoemi o Wasurenaide, 2) Shoujo no Koro ni Modotta Mitai ni, 3) Kakegae no Naimono. When this album hit number one in the Oricon charts, it marked the eleventh time she had done so, matching the record held by Dreams Come True for the most number ones by female vocal groups. She entered the hospital in June 2. In April 2. 00. 7, however, the cancer had spread to her lungs, resulting in her re- admittance to hospital.
According to the hospital, she took daily walks every morning. During her walk on May 2. She was sent to the emergency room, but she died upon arrival.
On the previous day, a memorial service for the people concerned was held and Maki Ohguro and Tetsuro Oda etc. At the same time, Tak Matsumoto and Koshi Inaba of B'z, Mai Kuraki and Shigeo Nagashima announced memorial comments for her. A fan- selected compilation album is also planned for the fall. Two tribute concerts were held. The two places were chosen because they were the first and last stops respectively of the What a beautiful moment Tour in 2.
There were nine screens set up where many showed previously unseen footage of Izumi Sakai. A first single after she died called Glorious Mind was played. This was a song which Sakai recorded before her hospitalization. This song was used for the opening theme song of the anime series Case Closed.
Extra minutes where she was singing in English were incorporated from a previously unrelated and unreleased song as well. Discography. Info. Good- Bye My Loneliness. Good- Bye My Loneliness. Rearranged c/w song Ai ha Kurayami no Naka de (. Covered by Vonda Shepard, Aya Hirano, Emiri Kat.
It's well- known as a Fight song and has used in a lot of TV show and commercial until now.