Maco (singer)
Japanese singer-songwriter
Maco (Japanese: マコ, Hepburn: Mako; stylized in all caps, born May 10, 1991, in Hakodate, Hokkaido) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. Initially receiving attention for a Japanese cover of Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", she made her debut with the cover mini-album 22 in 2014.
Career
Maco released a Japanese cover of Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", the theme song for the Fuji TV reality show Terrace House. Adapting the song into a sad ballad, the cover received attention on social media alongside Maco's covers of other Western pop songs. In January 2014, Maco served as the opening act for Ariana Grande's first tour in Japan. She also featured on the M-Flo album Future Is Wow. When she released her cover mini-album 22 later that year, it topped the streaming chart. Her cover of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was also certified gold digitally in August 2014 by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).
In July 2015, Maco was selected to sing the campaign song "Shiny Stars" for the NHK Commercial Broadcasters Joint Radio Campaign in Hokkaido. Starting in 2011, the campaign selected a district each year to promote radio listening among youth.
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