Aoi Teshima
Aoi Teshima is a Japanese singer and voice actress. She is known for singing and acting in several Goro Miyazaki movies including Tales from Earthsea and From up on Poppy Hill.
Career
While Aoi Teshima went to C&S music academy in Fukuoka, she began a music career as an amateur in 2003. In 2003 and 2004, she participated in a musical event "DIVA", which was held in Fukuoka, as part of a "Teen's Music Festival".In March 2005, she acted in "Japan-Korea slow music's world" in South Korea and her performance was favorably received among the audience. Her performance attracted the attention of anime director Gorō Miyazaki. Toshio Suzuki was also very impressed when he listened to her demo version of Bette Midler's "The Rose"
On June 7, 2006, she finally released a song called "Therru's Song". This song was used in a film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, Tales from Earthsea, in which she also voices the character Theru.
She was featured singing for two songs of a Nintendo Wii game, . The first song is called "Light", while the ending one is titled "Warmth of the Moon".
She once again collaborated with Gorō Miyazaki on his second feature From up on Poppy Hill, singing Summer of Goodbye, the main theme of the movie and other songs in the film, as well as voicing the character Yuko.
On February 10, 2016, she released the first single from her 10th album "Ren'dez-vous", "Asu e no Tegami". This song was used in Japanese drama "Itsuka kono Koi o Omoidashite kitto Naite shimau" and charted at top on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart.
Discography
Original albums
Cover albums
Teshima's cover albums are sung in English.| Title | Album Information | Oricon albums charts | Sales |
| The Rose: I Love Cinemas |
| 48 | 15,000 |
| La Vie en rose: I Love Cinemas | 65 | 6,000 | |
| Christmas Songs | 127 | 3,900 | |
| Miss Aoi - Bonjour, Paris! | |||
| Cheek to Cheek~I Love Cinemas~ |