Korean Christmas In Japanese Song

BoA
“Meri Kuri”

Futari no kyori ga sugoku chijimatta kimochi ga shita
Shizen ni ude ga kumete hieta sora miageta toki ni

Konbini de ocha erande atarimae ni wake atte
Kimi no mune ni kurumarete iru

Zutto zutto soba ni ite
Daisuki na kimi wo mitsumetetai
Snowflakes kimi no nukumori wa
Fuyu no okurimono hora yuki da yo

Dokoka de tsurai koto ya sabishisa ni butsukattemo
Kimi omou kono kimochi ni shoujiki de iru to chikau yo

Megeru to kore kike yo tte kashite kureta CD wa
Kimi ga kureta uta no rabu retaa

Zutto zutto iitakute
Tsukiatte kurete nee arigatou
Motto suki na hito tsuyoku
Dakishimenasai to yuki wa furu no

Okurimono wo sagashinagara musubu hazu no nai kimochi ga
Musubiaeta koto no fushigi kanjiteta

Zutto zutto soba ni ite
Onaji yume sagasu tabi wo shitai
Snowflakes sora ga machikado ni
Shiroi iki wo tsuku hora yuki da yo

The white, white snow's coming tonight
Make a wish upon your kiss

Born in November 5th, 1986 in Guri, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, BoA Kwon or known as her stagename BoA is the popular South Korean singer and her letters’ first name have been backronymed to Beat of Angel. She had been in active in South Korea and Japan. BoA can speaks Japanese and conversational English, aside from Korean. After two years of training, at the age 13, BoA had released her debut album called ‘ID; Peace B’ on August 25th, 200 which received a positive reviews and had climbed into top 10 chart. Soon after signing the contract with Avex Trax (same label with Ayumi Hamasaki and hitomi), BoA had entered the Japanese music industry as she’d debuted the Japanese version of ‘ID; Peace B’ in early 2001. The singles such as ‘Amazing Kiss’, ‘Kimochi wa Tsutaru’ and the most successful singles, ‘Listen To My Heart’ was among the singles debuted in the album. Her album was one of the few albums by Korean artist to enter top 5 and performed well despite the disputes tension between Japan and South Korea due to the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Her 5th singles ‘Every Heart ~minna no kimochi, everybody’s feeling~ was released and becoming the ending theme of anime series Inu Yasha; that was peaked at #10 on the charts. BoA had released her second full Korean album called ‘No.1’ in 2002 which this album was her most successful Korean to date, selling over 572,000 copies. A year later, she became the youngest artist ever to receive an ‘Artist of the Year’ in South Korea.

She had continued to release the singles that was leading up to her second Japanese album, including ‘Don’t Start Now’ and her hit singles ‘Valenti’. Her second Japanese album, ‘Valenti’, was released on January 29th, 2003 had reached #1 on the charts with over 615,000 copies sold in its first week of released. In 2004, her fourth album called ‘My name’ was released which had received public attention for its complete style shift from the ‘young and cute’ BoA to a more mature one. She had won Daesang (‘Grand Prize’) award at MKMF Awards for the music video of the album’s title track, ‘My Name’. The two more singles had released which ‘Quincy/Konoyo no Shirushi’ and ‘Meri Kuri (Merry Christmas in English Translation)’, after the released of ‘Love and Honesty’ and her second live arena tour Live Tour 2004 ~Love and Honesty~. Her compilation album, ‘Best of Soul’ had became the ninth highest selling album of 2005 which in this album include the singles ‘La La La Love Song’ (originally sung by Toshinobu Kubota in 1996 as the theme song for Japanese drama Long Vacation) featuring Japanese hip-hop group SOUL’d OUT. While on February 15th, her 4th Japanese studio album called ‘Outgrow’ had hit the #1 on the Oricon Charts for its first week sales but it relatively low debut sales (220,000 copies) which making it her lowest-selling-first-week debut for a studio album at that point. She even had released her first digital singled called ‘Merry Christmas from BoA’ on December 7th, 2005.

The music video of ‘My Name’ became the first music video ever shown on MTV K, an MTV music channel directed at Korean Americans in June 2006. The other singles called ‘Spark’ was a great success winning the SBS popular Song Mutizen award for the first time as a 2nd single cut (sub-title) of an album and also ‘My Prayer’ was a great success becoming the first single cut from an album as a ballad track. On January 17th 2007, BoA 5th studio called ‘Made in Twenty (20)’ was released, however, it was leaked on the internet five days before it release date. On April 25th 2007, BoA had released her 22nd Japanese singles called ‘Sweet Impact’ which had drawn a minor controversy because of its similarity to a Vogue magazine cover featuring English model Kate Moss. Her 6th Korean album had reportedly to be released on June on the same year. However, it was pushed out to 2008, more than 2 years after the released of her Korean album, ‘Girl on Top’. Her next singles called ‘Lose Your Mind’ will be released on December 12th, a day after the BoA the LIVE X-Mas Special which including the singles ‘Smile again’ as a B-Side and the title track features Yutaka Furukawa from J-Rock band DOPING PANDA. In 2005, BoA was offered the lead role in successful Korean drama, Goong (Princess Hours) which was later had been passed to Yun Eun Hye due to her busy scheduled. She also rumored to be appeared in ‘Kung Fu Dunk’ due to be released in 2008 alongside with the Taiwanese superstar, Jay Chou and then again, she refused it. It does pass to Yun Eun Hye but it had been rejected due to hectic scheduled.



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