Kitahara Mirei(北原ミレイ)

Kitahara Mirei(北原ミレイ) entered high school with a sports scholarship and was an excellent tennis player while there.

After she graduated from high school, she moved to Tokyo and sung at a night club. While she was working there, she also studied various forms of music such as jazz from Henry Kurata(ヘンリー・倉田) and Hamaguchi Kuranosuke(浜口庫之助), and canzone from Ōmoto Kyōkei(大本恭敬).

After Mizuhara Hiroshi(水原弘) and composer Aku Yuu(阿久悠) also took note of her singing at the night club, she made her debut with "Not Even Worth a Confession(ざんげの値打ちもない Zangeno Neuchimo Nai)."

In 1995, she released the single "I Want to Love(愛したいの Aishitaino)" for the twenty-fifth anniversary of her debut, which ended up being used as the ending theme to TV Tokyo's "Special Wandering Journey(特選ぶらり旅 Tokusen Buraritabi)."

In 2008, NHK included her debut single "Not Even Worth a Confession(ざんげの値打ちもない Zangeno Neuchimo Nai)" in a show commemorating Aku Yuu's achievements, but cut out the fourth verse of the five verse song, stating that the verse was "too forward."

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