He decided to hold a three-day charity concert, called the ap bank fes '05. About this time, Sakurai Kazutoshi of Mr.Children had been forming a charity, called ap bank. While Landmark got to #20, the singles before it did quite poorly on the charts. The second single, " Dialogue", even won the award for "Best New Artist Video" at the 2005 Space Shower awards. To further this release, Salyu continued with three more singles and her debut album, landmark. "Valon-1" got to #34 on Oricon singles chart. Two months later, Salyu would release a solo version of this song, titled " VALON-1", under her new label TOY'S FACTORY. "Valon" proved to be a minor hit, peaking at #12 and selling over 25,000 copies. Then, she returned to the music scene with a collaborative single with ILMARI from RIP SLYME, entitled " VALON". She would continue to hold small lives throughout 2003, until April of 2004. However, instead of under the name Lily Chou-Chou as before, she changed her stage name to "Salyu" (coined by Kobayashi Takeshi, and originating from the French word "Salut"). Nothing was heard from Salyu until late 2002, in which she started touring again. Even director Quentin Tarantino is a known fan of the film and Salyu's voice, having featured Lily Chou-Chou's song " Kaifuku Suru Kizu" in a scene in Kill Bill.
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The movie soon became a smash hit (and later, a cult classic). The album was, instead of Sony, released under Toshiba EMI, and despite the hype from the movie, it only reached #60 on the charts. To tie-up with the movie, a Lily Chou-Chou album was released at the same time, entitled Kokyuu. You can currently buy either one for a price of 15,000yen+ second hand.Īlmost exactly a year and a half since the first Lily Chou-Chou single was released, the movie pertaining to these singles was released. Nowadays, these two singles are seen as extremely rare. In fact, only "Kyoumei" out of the two even reached the top 200 singles (#97).
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These two singles were mostly released to add a back-story to add to the illusion of Lily Chou-Chou's character existing. A second single to follow "Glide" was released two months later, called " Kyoumei (Kuukyo na Ishi)". Lily Chou-Chou's music was seen as quite dark, and possessing a certain mysterious "ethereal" quality to it that was central to the plot of the movie. Hence, on April 19th 2000 her debut single " Glide" was released.
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He was impressed by her, and asked her if she would like to undertake the role of singing the role of a singer in an upcoming film to be directed by Iwai Shunji, All About Lily Chou-Chou. There, she caught the eye of producer Kobayashi Takeshi ( Mr.Children, My Little Lover, Hitoto Yo). She tried to audition through several magazines, until finally she auditioned at the Sony SD Audition. In 1998, Salyu was inspired to become a musician after watching her friend's band play at a live house. From then on, Salyu started singing with a choir singing children's classics as well as classical songs.
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When she became sick from pneumonia at primary school, her doctor recommended that it would be good if she took up either swimming or singing.