Koe o Kikasete (Shizuka Kudo song)
1992 single by Shizuka Kudō
"Koe o Kikasete" (声（こえ）を聴（き）かせて; lit. "Let Me Hear Your Voice") is a song recorded by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo. It was released as a single through Pony Canyon on August 21, 1992. The song was featured on the AX television series Kyōshi Natsuyasumi Monogatari. It made its first album appearance on the compilation album, Best of Ballade: Empathy, released later that same year.
Background
"Koe o Kikasete" was written by Gorō Matsui and composed and produced by Tsugutoshi Gotō, marking the fourth consecutive single of Kudo to have resulted from a collaboration between the two. Lyrically, the song describes a narrator trying to persuade her listeners to overcome their fears and cowardice, imploring them to speak up and not "close your heart off anymore". The song is noted for its use of a gospel choir. Kudo was praised for her presence on the record; she received acclaim for delivering vocals befitting of the genre with ease and critics noted that she was never drowned out by the "grand" backing orchestra of the Southern gospel-influenced track. In 2017, during a retrospective talk show on Yahoo!
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