Mayu Wakisaka
Japanese singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist
Mayu Wakisaka (脇阪 真由, Wakisaka Mayu; born October 7, 1980) is a singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist based in Tokyo, Japan. Wakisaka grew up in Osaka, Japan, and studied law at Kyoto University. In 2007, she quit law school to pursue her career as a singer-songwriter and moved to Los Angeles.
While studying music at LA Music Academy, Wakisaka self-produced her first EP Stars Won't Fall, from which "24 Hours" got featured in Sony Walkman as a preload song, attracting an international fanbase.
In 2011, she recorded her second EP Into the Wild with an L.A. based producer, John Avila. An acoustic tune "Once" won the first prize in International Acoustic Music Award Open Category and made it to the final of Great American Songwriting Contest. Also, the piano ballad "What I See in Love" made it to the final of UK Songwriting Contest and Australian Songwriting Contest. Later, this song was featured as a sub theme song in In the Name of Love, a TV drama aired in Singapore and Malaysia.
In 2014, she released Halfway to You, a compilation album of her first EP as her first full-length album. In promotion of the album, she performed at SXSW as part of the Japan Nite tour in the United States and at The Great Escape Festival in UK. She also released her CD and performed in Korea and Singapore too.
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