Migiwa

シンガーソングライター

2000年の春、 毎年アメリカテネシー州ナッシュビルにて行われる
ゴスペルの祭典ＧＭＡにゴスペル・プロモーターと して参加。
2001年からゴスペルシンガーとして活動を開始。
ゴスペルユニット"Voice of Joy"のメンバーとして中学高校を巡回。
2002年ホチキスレコードから初のCD 「My Only Reason」をリリース。
2004年にはライフミュージックから1stアルバム 「世界で唯一の」をリリース。
2005年2〜3月、BS朝日「GOSPEL GENERATION」に5週連続で出演。
同年3月テレビ番組「ライフ・ライン」に出演。
同月に自らが主催し、いのちのことば社共催、日本国際飢餓対策機構の後援で
大規模なチャリティコンサート「GOSPEL LINKING FESTA TOKYO」を開催。
ジャンルを越え、多くのゴスペルアーティストが賛同、参加。好評を博す。
同年4月には新ユニット「A.O」を結成。バンドとしての活動も始めるとともに
7月にはシングルCD「inori」をリリース。
関東・東海・ハワイツアー、愛・地球博でコンサートを実施。
コンピレーションアルバム「いっしょにいさせて」に参加。
2005年度ゴスペルCCM大賞アーティストオブザイヤー銅賞受賞。
2006年8月ゴダイゴのタケカワユキヒデのサポートを受け
アルバム「蟻と宇宙」をリリース。
2006年度ゴスペルCCM大賞アーティストオブザイヤー金賞、
ならびに「蟻と宇宙」がアルバムオブザイヤー銀賞を受賞。
2007年2月渡米、ナッシュビル、メンフィス、ノースキャロライナなどでチャペルコンサートを実施。
4月には人気ギターブランド「McPerson」のプロジェクトに参加し、
"Salvation Poem"の日本語バージョンをレコーディング。
現在は、各地の教会やライブハウスなどでコンサート活動をしている。


Biography

Name : Migiwa
I participated in GMA as promoter in the spring of 2000.
And I started operations as a singer song writer in Japan.
I have released 4 CD's of my own.
The concert is done at the live house, the church, and the school, etc. ,
and I'm appearing on television and radio sometimes.
I won the grand prize in the "Japan Gospel Awords" in 2007.
And, my latest album "Ant and space" won the silver prize for "Best album prize".
I translated one song into Japanese, and recorded the song in Nashville
by the request of McPherson Guitar company in April 2007.
The name of the song is "The Salvation Poem".
As you know, there are very few Christians in Japan.
I'd like to present attractive and high-level music to the Japanese people.
And I hope my music might help them to come to know the true God.
My dream is to become a wonderful powerful artist to have an impact on the Japanese people.


Testimony ---

I was a very shy girl when I was small. It's hard to believe that I can now sing and talk in front of people. I didn't know how to communicate with people, and I had very few friends. I didn't study much either.

I liked church, but not school. I didn't understand why it was necessary to study. So I was always alone. Then I began to think I might be a very strange girl. I stopped going to school.

After that, my world became my room. I chose to be alone, but then I beganto afraid of being alone. I thought to myself, "society does not need me anymore", so I started thinking of suicide. I appealed to my mother, "I want to die, I want to die". However, it was very strange that I kept going to church. I felt church was the only place I could go, and that I could be myself. It is because of my song I just sang. "You are Precious.". The Bible says, "You are precious before my eyes. And I love you." This Bible verse always stayed in my heart. I am in one sense a "lost girl" or a "failure", but God has told me that "you are precious. I love you."

Then I realized that it's OK for me to live, I don't have to die. I must live my life. I started going outside.

In Japan there are many sad incidents happening in Japan... families killing their own family members, many people committing suicide. Do you know Sakie Yokota? Her daughter was abducted to North Korea. It's very sad. She attends to my church. But everyday we hear sad news on TV. Japanese people do not know the true story of God's love.

I may be a very small person, but I want to keep singing to spread the true love to the Japanese people.