Origa Biography

Olga Vitalievna Yakovleva on October 12, pos. Kochenevo, Novosibirsk Region - January 17, Tokyo, known under the pseudonym Origa Jap. The biography at the age of five Olga entered a music school. After graduating from the Novosibirsk Music School, in December of the year, at the invitation of Professor Kaneko, he arrives in the Japanese city of Sapporopo three -month program.

Professor Kaneko from the University of Sapporovo, the time of visiting Russia at the request of his friend, director of the children's music school at Kawai Corporation, was looking for a girl with good vocal data for a private concert. Information about the Russian singer is quickly distributed, and Olga receives invitations to a number of seasonal festivals. In the winter of the year, at one of the concerts, his organizer Yoshinoba Tsutsumi became so interested in her that he proposed to record and release a test mini-album.

Then she performed the Vocal Party in the single “Maria” Hamada Shego for a charitable performance, to help the victims of the earthquake in Osaka and Kobe. In subsequent years, she repeatedly performed with different artists. In the years, I represented the Pop Estrus of Japan in the Japanese Pop Sscene conducted 4 times a year on the Japanese Radio Japan, this radio station is under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She gave concerts not only in Tokyo, as well as in Nagoy, Nemuro and other cities of Japan. The second single “Polyushko-Paul”, released on July 23, became an introductory song in the television drama “Ao Nzidai” on the TBS channel.

Her fourth album “Eternity”, in the year, was the first Russian -speaking album in Japan, which occupied 64th place in the National Chart Orikon. The singer also worked in the project of the Fantastic Children multi -part anime, where the song “Mizu No Madoromi” is noteworthy, performed in two versions, in Japanese and Russian languages. The Russian version is called "Love defeats." Solid State Society "voicing the introductory song" Player "together with the Japanese group Heartsdales and the final song" Date of Rebirth ".

The author of the texts of these songs is Origa herself. By the year, seven albums, two mini-albums and four single were released. The single outside of Japan brought her a single for the anime series “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” called “Inner Universe”, which was the composer of which became Yoko Cannot. Yoko Cannot took part in the records of almost all Olga’s albums, they were connected by long -standing friendship, as they made their debut at the same time.

She died on Saturday, January 17, in one of the Tokyo clinics at the age of 44 from lung cancer.