Minami Kizuki

It is the theme song of Disney's live-action movie "Mulan" (Japan version) which was released in 2020.

[3][4] She uses guin, a type of kobushi peculiar to traditional folk songs of Amami Ōshima.

[5] Recognized as a skilled J-Pop singer,[6][7] some people are eager to listen to her singing songs of various genres.

[17] Having learned the piano from the age of 2,[18] it was not until after she moved to Kagoshima that her brother influenced her to study Shima-uta, the traditional folk music of her home islands.

[19] She graduated from Syoyo high school in Kagoshima Prefecture, at which she majored in piano and minored in song.

On 19 August 2009,her first album "Kana-Itoshikihitoyo(to sweet persons)" was released.The music video of its lead song "Taiyo to Kakurenbo (Hide-and-seek with the sun)" was taken on the solar eclipse day (22 July 2009) in Amami Ōshima.

For the next several years, she released several singles and performed numerous times on radio and television throughout Japan.

One of them, "Inoriuta-Toutoganashi" was used as the closing theme for NHK's overseas music program from December 2014 to March 2015.

It is the theme song of Disney's live-action movie "Mulan" (Japan version) which was released in 2020.

Kizuki played Shiro mokuren or white magnolia, which protect the raccoon dog forest on musical Tanuki Goten(狸御殿, lit.

On 29 July 2014, Kizuki first appeared on THEカラオケ★バトル (The Karaoke★Battle), a televised karaoke competition shown on TV Tokyo.

The initial contest was made during various type of professional persons who are concerning to singing, and she got the highest score and won the competition.

Kizuki and her team Amami Ōshima with Kosuke Atari and Mina Ganaha, ultimately won the competition.

Since her premiere on The Karaoke★Battle in 2014, Kizuki has gone on to win ten competitions (most recently in June 2016), and has garnered the nickname 'The absolute Karaoke Queen'.

Outside of karaoke, in 2014 she covered the ending themes to the Korean drama The King's Doctor in Japanese language, and in December 2014 provided Inoriuta – Toutoganasi, an ending song for the NHK World programme J-Melo, an English-language programme aimed at exploring Japanese music.