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ALBUMas a human - SingleSheena Ringo
Albums by Sheena Ringo
ALBUMla panacée de tous les mauxSheena Ringo
ALBUMtriviṣa-itihāsaSheena Ringo
ALBUMReimport, Vol. 2 - Civil Aviation BureauSheena Ringo
ALBUMHiizurutokoroSheena Ringo
ALBUMReimport -Ports And Harbors Bureau-Sheena Ringo
ALBUMSanmon GossipSheena Ringo
ALBUMHeisei Fuuzoku - Japanese Manners椎名林檎×斎藤ネコ
ALBUMKaruki Zahmen Kuri No Hana - Kalk Samen Chestnut FlowerSheena Ringo
ALBUMUtaite Myouri (Sono Ichi) - A Favor of Duty, Pt. 1Sheena Ringo
ALBUMShouso Strip - Winning StripSheena Ringo
Sheena Ringo's Popular Music Videos
The Sun&moon
椎名林檎と宇多田ヒカル
Nijikan Dake No Vacance (feat. Sheena Ringo)
Hikaru Utada
WORK
millennium parade & Sheena Ringo
Koroshiya Kikiippatsu
SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONSと椎名林檎
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Sheena Ringo Essentials
Genre-bending widescreen pop from a Japanese icon.
Sheena Ringo: The Songwriters
Artist Biography
One of Japanese music’s boldest talents, Sheena Ringo has always bucked against the conventions and restrictions that have often stymied women in J-pop. Born in Saitama, in 1978, Sheena was only a teenager when she landed a deal with EMI after winning a talent contest. But with a musical vision based on a disparate set of inspirations that included Bjӧrk, grunge, and Tony! Toni! Toné!—as well as her determination to write her own material and (gasp!) play guitar—Sheena set her own trajectory after launching her career in 1998. For every single as effervescent as her first hit, “Koufukuron,” there was a curveball like “Kabuki-cho No Joou,” a sexually charged alt-rocker inspired by the red-light district in Shinjuku. Sheena’s provocative sensibility was just as clear in her videos and her live shows like those on 2000’s Gekokujyo Xstasy tour, which Sheena performed in a blood-soaked dress in a set designed to resemble an operating room. In 2003, she surprised her fans again when she suspended her solo career to form Tokyo Jihen (a.k.a. Tokyo Incidents), a wildly adventurous band that mixed elements of funk, jazz, and rock. After resuming her career under her own name in 2012, Sheena continued to upend expectations with singles like 2019’s “Gate of Living,” a collision of French chanson-style pop and eerie electronics that somehow boasts the orchestral grandeur of a Bond-movie theme song, too.
Hometown
Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Genre
Rock