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 will host a special holiday in-store event featuring IA (dates shown below). The live footage from IA’s US debut concert held at Club Nokia - LA Live during Anime Expo on July 4, 2015 will be premiered at the event...)
Kinokuniya Bookstores (NY, San Francisco, Seattle) will host a special holiday in-store event featuring IA (dates shown below). The live footage from IA’s US debut concert held at Club Nokia - LA Live during Anime Expo on July 4, 2015 will be premiered at the event. Also, all three stores will carry special IA merchandise as well as Kagerou Project original goods sold at the 1st Place Official Shop Hachimaki at various conventions throughout the year.
IA just completed two live appearances on Nov. 28 and 29 at Hyper Japan Christmas, the biggest J-pop convention in London, with a packed audience and received outstanding reviews. Her international presence has been skyrocketing recently as she made her US live debut this summer followed by her first solo concert in Tokyo and a special 3D live showcase in New York. As she completed her first London shows, her godmother, Lia (who contributed her voice source to IA) also made a live appearance in Singapore as part of AFA 2015 and announced their joint Asian tour which will take place in 2016. As the details of their first Asian tour are being revealed, fans in the US can also look forward to seeing her (and maybe Lia?) in 2016! In the meanwhile, go to Kinokuniya bookstores and enjoy the exclusive live screenings and pick up the perfect gift items as you celebrate the holiday season!
What:
IA x Kinokuniya Bookstore Holiday In-Store Event
When:
Seattle Store: Dec. 12 (Sat.) 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
New York Store: Dec. 12 (Sat.) 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
San Francisco Store: Dec. 18 (Fri.) 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Where:
Kinokuniya Bookstores
New York Store:
1073 Ave of the Americas (between 40th & 41st St.) NYC (tel: 212-869-1700)
San Francisco Store:
Japan Center - Kinokuniya Building
1581 Webster St. (between Geary Blvd. & Post St.), San Francisco (tel: 415-567-7625)
Seattle Store:
Uwajimaya Village
525 South Weller St., Seattle (tel: 206-587-2477)
Admission: Free
IA is a virtual artist brought to life as part of the Vocaloid 3 software. IA -Aria on the Planetes- and IA Rocks are both ranked #1 on the Amazon Japan Music Software chart. IA-related videos have collectively garnered more than 100 million views. IA started her career as an artist by embarking on a live tour in 2012, followed by a dance music collaboration with the game Groove Coaster, as well as collaborations with several fashion brands. IA is also the featured singer of Kagerou Project by the multi-talented JIN and is even included on the Evangelion final chapter comic CD. Since 2013, IA has reached out to her international audience by doing live shows in France and Taiwan as well as a string of successful concert movie screenings in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. IA made her North American live performance debut with more than 2,000 screaming fans in July 2015. IA performed her first solo concert in Tokyo in September followed by her first New York show, and most recently two successful dates in London as part of Hyper Japan Christmas.
Lia came to US when she was 15 and became known as the singer with a “Crystal Voice” from the success of “Tori no Uta,” the theme song of the anime Air. In 2010,”My Soul, Your Beats!”, the opening song for the TV anime Angel Beats! scored #3 on the Oricon weekly chart and later became #1 at the Billboard Japan Music Awards (Independent Music Entry). The song also claimed #1 on the Oricon anime single chart the same year. In 2011, Lia received a Grammy Award for Calling All Dawns, an album she participated on as a singer, and has since released a string of chart-topping songs including “Justitia” from the TV anime Wizard Barristers and “Daze / Days,” the opening/ending theme song for Mekakucity Actors. Lia is the original voice of the virtual diva IA who was given birth as a sound library for Vocaloid 3, the voice synthesis software developed by Yamaha Corporation.
