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1. BENI is a Japanese pop singer, currenly signed to the Universal Music Japan record label. She made her debut as a member of the defunct supergroup Bishoujo Club 31, and was the first member of the group to pursue a solo career while being an active member. In 2004, she debuted on the avex trax record label as Arashiro Beni (安良城紅). Her third single, "Here Alone" (the theme song to the dorama Kurokawa no Techou) became her most successful with the label, peaking at #14. In 2008, Arashiro moved from avex to her current label, changed her stage name to BENI and has seen a slight boost in popularity.
Arashiro Beni comes from a multi-cultural background. Her father is an American, while her mother is an Okinawan Japanese who lived in Miyakojima. Her parents were music lovers, who let her take dance and piano lessons from an early age. While Arashiro was born in Kanagawa, she lived out her childhood in California. When she was 12 she moved from California to Yokohama, and attended the American School in Japan. While there, she was classmates with Sony Japan-signed artist Crystal Kay and became close friends with her. Because of this, Arashiro is fluent in both English and Japanese.
In 2002, Arashiro competed in the 8th National Japan Bishojo Contest (a beauty pagent) and became one of the finalists, despite not having any formal training for the beauty contest. Due to her high placing in this contest, she was chosen to be part of the musical/TV personality group Bishoujo 31 in mid-2006 (though at the time were called Bishoujo 31 as 10 more members came in 2004). She became a regular on the TV-show GIRLS A GOGO! along side the rest of the members of this group.
In April 2004 the group with debut with their first single, Da Di Da☆Go! Go! (the ending theme song that was used in their TV show GIRLS A GOGO!). The single broke the top 40 at #34. Arashiro was then picked up by avex trax to become a solo artist away from the Pony Canyon-produced Bishoujo Club 31 and debuted in June with the single "Harmony" (drama Reikan Bus Guide Jikenbo's theme song). This made her the first of the girls to pursue a solo project. The single, however, would barely see more success than the group's effort, peaking at #26.
In August, Arashiro found her second TV opportunity by appearing on the MTV Japan show M size appearing in a segment called JANGLISH STYLE from Arashiro Beni ~Otona no Junky Life~. Two months later, her second single "Infinite..." was released. On the day after the single's release, a special one-off drama starring popular actress Yonekura Ryoko called Kurokawa no Techou was aired, which used a new song of Arashiro's, "Here Alone", as its ending theme song. Interestingly, Yonekura Royoko had won the 1992 competition for the Bishoujo award that Arashiro had become a finalist in. This new song proved to be much more popular, peaking at #14 on Oricon charts (this is her most successful single to date). At the same time, Arashiro was promoting her second Bishoujo Club single called Tokyo Gourmet Tour which was released two weeks before.
The start of 2005 saw Arashiro become the spokesgirl and CM model for cosmetics company KOSÉ's VISEE range (a title that has gone to such people as Amuro Namie, Hamasaki Ayumi, Koda Kumi and Tsuchiya Anna). Following this in February was debut self-titled album, Beni, as well as a single released on the same day called Miracle taken from the album. In March at the 19th Japan Gold Disc Award ceremony, Arashiro was one of the receivers fo the Best New Artist of the Year award. Arashiro starred in her first musical as the heroine Mary Maguire in the Japanese run of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Beautiful Game (it had two dates in March-April).
June saw Arashiro's first new single since her debut album, "Hikari no Kazu Dake Glamorous" (used as the VISEE CM song to the commercial which starred her). On August 6 she performed both the Japanese national anthem and the American national anthem at the half time show for the American Football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Indianapolis Colts at the Tokyo Dome. August also saw the final release from Bishoujo Club 31, a DVD mini-album.
In late 2005 she would release a single "Cherish" which was the lead-in to her second album Girl 2 Lady. While Girl 2 Lady was significantly less successful commercially, it also saw Arashiro committing more to her music (she co-wrote several tracks on the album). After a period of inactivity she released a new single "How Are U?" (produced by YANAGIMAN) in September which did not chart on Oricon chart's top 200 single (implying less than 350 copies sold that week). Nothing else was released in 2006. In 2007, Arashiro made a comeback with the theme song to the drama [[Warui Yatsura]], "Luna" (peaking at #77) and her third album, GEM, following in April. At the same time, Arashiro became the face of clothing label CECIL McBEE.
Following her third album, GEM, Arashiro was finally given the chance to have one-man lives. There were two in total, one which was held in Tokyo and the other in Osaka. Following these lives, Arashiro was relatively inactive in her music career but started work as a host for NHK TV's Tokyo Kawaii TV. In late 2007 it was announced on her website that she would continue to sing the theme song for American Football in Japan. It was soon announced in 2008 that Arashiro would star in the movie, Buraburabanban, as the lead character. Shortly after this a best of album was announced which was titled Chapter One ~complete collection~. The best of album had two versions, a CD only and a CD+DVD version. The CD+DVD version included all of her music videos and performances from her first live.
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Following the release of her best album, it was rumored that she possibly could have been dropped due to the title of her best-of album being "complete collection". Fan's fears were slightly settled when it was announced that Arashiro would be featured as "BENI" on Dohzi-T's single, "Mou Ichido...". Upon "Mou Ichido..."'s release, it became the biggest hit to date for both Dozhi-T and Arashiro. In late August 2008, it was announced that Arashiro would be featured on DJ MAKAI's album STARS, with the song titled "STAR IN MY SKY". In September 2008, without a warning, Arashiro's official site at Avex was shutdown. It was widely believed that what fans had feared most had actually happened, she was dropped by her label.
But in late October, it was officially announced that rather than being dropped Arashiro had switched record label companies as well as management from avex trax and Oscar Promotion to Universal Music Japan's Nayutawave Records and Survive on Music Inc. respectively. It was also announced that Arashiro switched her name from Arashiro Beni to BENI and that she hoped to pursue solely on her music from that point on. In order to be more committed to her music it was also announced that she would take part in the writing of her songs from that point on. A single was quickly announced, titled "Mou Nido to..." which was an answer song to the widely popular collaboration with Dozhi-T "Mou Ichido...". "Mou Nido to..." was released on December 10th and was able to reach #20 on the weekly Oricon chart (her highest chart rank since her debut) and was extremely popular in downloads.
Following "Mou Nido to...", it was announced that BENI would be collaborating once more with MAKAI for his new mini-album LEGEND where BENI covered Cece Pennington's hit song "Finally". BENI also took part in a tribute album to The Carpenter's and covered the song "Superstar". Another single was also announced, "Kiss Kiss Kiss", that was released on April 8, 2009. "Kiss Kiss Kiss" was used as the CM song for Kao Biore's new line of body soap "Body Deli". Although "Kiss Kiss Kiss" only managed to rank in at #40 on the Oricon weekly chart it saw significant success on the download charts, managing to rank in at #1 for its release week with Chaku-Uta Full. After "Kiss Kiss Kiss" another single was quickly announced entitled "Koi Kogarete" that is set to be released on June 10tg, 2009. "Koi Kogarete" will be used as popular TV show "Music Fighter"'s June Power Play theme song. The single will include the song "Forever 21" which was produced by YANAGIMAN and is being used as the image song for popular clothing company FOREVER 21 which recently crossed over into the Japanese market.
In a blog in May 2009, BENI answered one of commentator's questions, one which asked if an album was going to be released soon. BENI replied that she is currently working on recording songs for the album and that it should be ready soon.
BENI is currently studies political science at Sophia University in Tokyo.
-from Jpop Stop! wiki.-
2. Beni, full name Benjamin Single, is an electronic producer/DJ from Sydney, Australia. Getting a start in the industry with outfit The Bang Gang Deejays as DJ Damage, Beni later formed Riot In Belgium with Joel Dickson of Cut Copy. As half of Riot In Belgium, Beni found fans in 2 Many DJs, Tiga, and the most stylish label head in Europe, Headman, who signed them to his Relish imprint.
Since Riot In Belgium disbanded in 2008, Beni has gone on to produce solo, with remixes of Sneaky Sound System's "Kansas City" (2008), Digitalism's "Pogo" (2008), La Roux's "Quicksand" (2009) and Tiga's "Shoes" (2009). In November 2008, Beni released his first solo production titled "My Love Sees You", which saw underground success in the club scene, being included on various compilation mixes including the Ministry of Sound's "Clubber's Guide to Spring 2008", "The Annual 2009" and The Bang Gang's "D is for Disco, E is for Dancing". Beni's follow up track, "Fringe Element (Shorts Like Me Edit)", sees its release in mid-2009 and is already featured on Kitsune Maison 7.
www.myspace.com/listentobeni. Released in September 2009 on Kitusne / etcetc, Beni's latest "Maximus" featuring vocals by Sam Sparro has a killer acompanying music video directed by Moopjaw which had 50,000 hits in the first few days of release!
3. Beni, a DJ and Producer from Australia
4. Beni, An underground farsi language rapper from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
5. beni is a rapper and singer from Denmark who does varied styles of rap. He started releasing music in 2020, starting with his joke track "Growth" which is a collab with another Danish artist called "addi". During 2023 he has released 3 more serious songs, in chronological order: "Spiraling", "150" and "Genesis", each representing their own style. While "Spiraling" has a dark and depressing tone, "150" has a relaxed summer vibe and "Genesis" has a more serious tone, you never know what to expect next from beni.
Sign
BENI Lyrics
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一緒にいたいよ ねぇ今すぐ受け取ってよ
このサイン
『どんな事でも乗り越えていこう』って
誓った あの頃の私たち
この手は冷たいまま
雪が降り続く
『どうしてなの?』『遠ざかってくの?』
求めれば求めるほど
『会いたいよ』『好きと言ってよ』
心で泣いてるの
このまま何もかも無くなってしまいそう
一緒にいたいよ ねぇ今すぐ受け取ってよ
このサイン
気付けば連絡も会話も一方通行で
返ってくるのは いつも言い訳
ケンカを繰り返さなきゃ
振り向いてくれない
『終わってしまうの?』『戻れないの?』
あなた思えば思うほど
『もう辛いよ...』『でも好きだよ...』
ずっと送り続けるよ
誰にも負けない 誰よりも好きなのに
目を逸らさないで気付いてよ
今送り出すサイン
思い出してよ あの日交わした
大事な約束 ここにある
終わりだなんて信じられない
最後のサイン送れない
このまま何もかも無くなってしまいそう
一緒にいたいよ ねぇ今すぐ受け取ってよ
このサイン
誰にも負けない 誰よりも好きなのに
目を逸らさないで気付いてよ
今送り出すサイン
The Japanese pop song "Sign" by BENI is about a couple experiencing difficulties in their relationship, and the singer is pleading with her partner to acknowledge her love for him and to work things out before it's too late. The title "Sign" refers to a sign that the singer wants her partner to accept, which will signify their commitment to weathering any problems that come their way. The song starts with the line "I feel like everything is going to disappear," which shows the singer's fear that her relationship is on the rocks and that she could lose her loved one. The second line is a plea to her partner to take the sign of commitment she's offering and stay with her, indicating that she wants to save the relationship.
The song then takes us back to when the couple first met and made a promise to each other: "Let's overcome anything together." However, reality has proven more challenging than the couple anticipated. The singer's hands are cold, and the snow is falling, indicating that the relationship is chilly and that things are turning icy. The couple is struggling, and the singer is feeling emotionally neglected. She is asking her partner to come back to her and to acknowledge her feelings, but he's not reciprocating, leaving her feeling frustrated and sad. She's asking, "Why are you pulling away? I miss you. Please tell me you love me."
The chorus repeats the message that the singer wants to be with her partner and that she wants him to acknowledge their relationship. She's conveying her desperation and vulnerability, fearing that he might leave her. The second verse shows her despair deepening. She's feeling alone, and communication has become one-way traffic. Her partner's excuses are all she hears nowadays, and without fights, he's not paying attention to her. She's saying that she will keep trying to reach him and keep persevering with her love for him.
Overall, "Sign" is a melancholic yet uplifting song. It acknowledges the challenges of relationships when two people become close but are struggling to make this work in the long term. The lyrics show the singer's vulnerability and her willingness to be open and honest with her partner. The title's metaphor of a sign is significant, showing how we all need a tangible symbol to mark the turning points in our relationships. It demonstrates how love is not enough and that we must make commitments to each other to make things work. Ultimately, the song is about hope, and the singer believes that although things are tough now, they will one day overcome the hardships they are facing.
Line by Line Meaning
このまま何もかも無くなってしまいそう
Things seem like they're disappearing altogether, just like that.
一緒にいたいよ ねぇ今すぐ受け取ってよ
I want to stay together, so please accept this right now.
このサイン
This symbol of our connection.
『どんな事でも乗り越えていこう』って
Remember when we promised to overcome anything?
誓った あの頃の私たち
Back when we made that pledge.
この手は冷たいまま
But my hands are still cold.
雪が降り続く
And the snow just keeps falling.
『どうしてなの?』『遠ざかってくの?』
'Why is this happening?' 'Are we drifting apart?'
求めれば求めるほど
The more I ask, the more I desire.
『会いたいよ』『好きと言ってよ』
I want to see you and hear you say you love me.
心で泣いてるの
My heart is crying out.
気付けば連絡も会話も一方通行で
Before I knew it, our communication became one-sided.
返ってくるのは いつも言い訳
All I ever hear back are excuses.
ケンカを繰り返さなきゃ
Unless we keep fighting.
振り向いてくれない
You won't turn around.
『終わってしまうの?』『戻れないの?』
'Is it all over?' 'Can't we go back?'
あなた思えば思うほど
The more I think about you.
『もう辛いよ...』『でも好きだよ...』
'It's so hard...' 'But I still love you...'
ずっと送り続けるよ
I'll keep sending them all this time.
誰にも負けない 誰よりも好きなのに
I won't lose to anyone, I love you more than anyone else, and yet...
目を逸らさないで気付いてよ
Don't look away, notice me.
今送り出すサイン
The sign I'm sending out right now.
思い出してよ あの日交わした
Remember that day we made that promise.
大事な約束 ここにある
That important vow is here.
終わりだなんて信じられない
I can't believe it's the end.
最後のサイン送れない
I can't send my last sign.
Writer(s): 松任谷 由実, Beni, 松任谷 由実, ｂｅｎｉ
Contributed by Eli V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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BENI サイン
このまま何もかも無くなってしまいそう
一緒にいたいよ ねぇ今すぐ受け取ってよ
このサイン
『どんな事でも乗り越えていこう』って
誓った あの頃の私たち
この手は冷たいまま
雪が降り続く
『どうしてなの?』『遠ざかってくの?』
求めれば求めるほど
『会いたいよ』『好きと言ってよ』
心で泣いてるの
このまま何もかも無くなってしまいそう
一緒にいたいよ ねぇ今すぐ受け取ってよ
このサイン
気付けば連絡も会話も一方通行で
返ってくるのは いつも言い訳
ケンカを繰り返さなきゃ
振り向いてくれない
『終わってしまうの?』『戻れないの?』
あなた思えば思うほど
『もう辛いよ…』『でも好きだよ…』
ずっと送り続けるよ
誰にも負けない 誰よりも好きなのに
目を逸らさないで気付いてよ
今送り出すサイン
思い出してよ あの日交わした
大事な約束 ここにある
終わりだなんて信じられない
最後のサイン送れない
このまま何もかも無くなってしまいそう
一緒にいたいよ ねぇ今すぐ受け取ってよ
このサイン
誰にも負けない 誰よりも好きなのに
目を逸らさないで気付いてよ
今送り出すサイン
@Ishigoogl
アップありがとうございます👍胸に沁みる歌声🎵💐
@user-dj8iv3bj5u
凄いアーティスト・素晴らしい表現力。
この曲♬の情景が心に浮かび上がってくる………
@aoikumo6547
まんま春よ来いw
どっちも好きだからヨシ♪
@user-vt7xi9tu5v
めちゃくちゃ好きです
BENIの顔も曲も
@user-fb5oc6ej2u
BENI大好き💓♥️❤️
@user-dj8iv3bj5u
今（2019.11.17）BSNHKの歌番組で鶫真衣（自衛隊）がこのイントロで歌いだしたら「春よ来い」だったのをアレっ？と思うBENI💛ファンがここに一人いる………
@user-ij9nj7yp9z
歌も上手くて
容姿も美しく
カッコ良くて
凄いわ
@yasuosibuya7118
ふたりは全てを失くしても＞愛だけはなくさないと信じている＜＜＜永遠に
ふたりが遠い世界に旅立ったとしても神は愛をふたりから奪うことはない＊＊＊＊＊
@user-on5xg2zo8e
最高😃⤴️⤴️
@seijiiwaguro
0:33 サイン／BENI
Beautiful songs😀👍👍👍
👁👄👁