Alright in this weeks post Im gonna take a little detour from show-tune singers & youtube stars. Now as you all know my favorite video game is "Final Fantasy X" but a close competitor is "Kingdom Hearts", made by the same company Square-Enix. Singer-songwriter Utada Hikaru wrote & sang the Japanese and English version of the theme songs "Hikari" & "Simple and Clean" respectively, from the game. She is a very popular singer in Japan and even has albums here in the U.S. and thanks to the popularity of the game she has had even more success outside of her country. Utada has since become the go to singer for the "Kingdom Hearts" series, having done the theme song for the sequel and all other spinoffs.
In this video shes singing an acoustic take of the english version "Simple and Clean". I find it truly amazing to sing a song so beautifully in your second language. The singing starts at the 1:00 mark.
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