May'n Short History:
20-year-old May'n was born on October 21st, 1989. At the age of 13, she took part in the “Horipro – Talent Scout Caravan – Love Music – Audition”, which was a prominent vocal audition (with some 35,000 applicants), and won it by demonstrating her stunning singing skills. May'n is her stage name, adapted from her given name of May Nakabayashi; it implies her wish to keep on singing, which would become the main themes in everyone's hearts.
In 2008, May'n performed as the singing voice of Sheryl Nome, the Diva of the Galaxy in the TV animation series “Macross Frontier”. In the same year, she released two singles that hit the Japanese Oricon weekly charts at number 3 in their debut weeks. May'n catapulted to fame since then.
“May'n Street”, a long-awaited mini album, was released on January 21st, 2009. The album included “Blue” and “Iya, Iya”, both songs' lyrics being written by May'n herself. The album also received large numbers of preorders. The demand for it has not gone down since being released, and got up to 2nd place in the Oricon weekly charts.
“Kimishini tamou kotonakare”, opening theme to the TV anime Shangri La was released in May, made it into the Oricon top 10 charts.
Her recent releases towards the end of 2009 were again huge successes. With her latest album Styles debuting at #7 on the Oricon Charts, her Anime Macross Frontier related single “Pink Monsoon” and mini-album “Universal Bunny” both reached at #3 on the Oricon Charts,
As a concert performer, she has continually performed to sellout concerts in Japan and Asia; in 2009 she also visited Singapore, South Korea and Guangzhou, China – performing to full house concert audiences. |