Usually when I do these lists, I focus on bands and musical groups, but I figured Lisa is such a big musician and singer in the anime world that she deserves her own article. She actually has one of the biggest anime discographies that I’ve done with over 20 songs under her name!
Now, while most of the world came to know LiSA through her Sword Art Online openings like Crossing Field, and I got to know her years prior through the Angel Beats album, I only found out recently that she a real musician gigging in a band way before she ever became an anisong singer.
According to Wikipedia, “Oribe was born in Gifu Prefecture on June 24, 1987. She took piano lessons starting at age three, and later took dance and vocal lessons, which continued through her junior high school years. While in elementary, she participated in an audition held at the Nippon Budokan, and it was during this time she decided to become an artist. In junior high school, she formed a band which covered songs by Avril Lavigne, Love Psychedelico, and Ego-Wrappin’.
Oribe began her singing career in 2005 during her first year in high school when she formed a cover band playing indie rock band called Chucky. She chose not to attend university to focus on her work with Chucky, but it eventually became difficult for them to continue performing. Following the band’s disbandment in July 2008, she moved to Tokyo to continue her singing career.
In Tokyo, Oribe formed the band Love is Same All with members from the indie band Parking Out and began using the stage name LiSA, which is an acronym for Love is Same All. The band performs with LiSA during the latter’s solo live performances. In 2010, she made her major debut singing songs for the anime series Angel Beats! as one of two vocalists for the fictional in-story band Girls Dead Monster”
If you’d like to discover other Japanese music and artists, check out my playlists on Youtube! And if you’re interested in learning more vocabulary and kanji so you can watch anime and dramas, read manga, sing J-pop at karaoke, or play raw Japanese video games, check out my 250+ Kanji for Japanese Media (+Sentences) article and my Japanese Study Guide!
Update April 2023: News just came out that LiSA had her first child!! Congrats to the new mom!
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