Boa is a name of several artists:
1. South Korean singer
2. Croatian … Read Full Bio ↴Boa is a name of several artists:
1. South Korean singer
2. Croatian art rock band
3. Chilean power groove metal band
1) A mononym of South Korean singer Kwon Boa / 권보아 [[url=/tag/Hangul]Ko] (b. 5 Nov 1986, in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) - a backronym of 'Beat of Angel' (active in South Korea, Japan & USA). She was discovered by SM Entertainment talent agents, when she accompanied her older brother to a talent search. In 1998, she signed to SM Entertainment & after two years of training, débuted with “ID; Peace B” ('00). Two years later, she released her Japanese début album, “Listen To My Heart” (Avex Trax). Her USA début was, the single, “Eat You Up” (14 Oct '08, SM Entertainment USA), followed by an English-language début album, “BoA” (17 Mar '09).
Influenced by hip-hop & rnb singers - such as Nelly & Janet Jackson - many of BoA’s songs fall into those genres. As the singer feels she does not “have any talent for writing [songs]”, the writing and composition of her songs are handled mostly by her staff; for this reason, she has drawn some criticism. (Though only a few of her songs are self-written, BoA began composing on her own with her Japanese début album Listen to My Heart, in which she co-wrote and composed the song “Nothing’s Gonna Change”.)
BoA’s multilingual skills (she speaks Japanese and conversational English along with her native Korean and has recorded songs in Mandarin Chinese) have contributed to her commercial success in South Korea and Japan and her popularity throughout East Asia. She is the only non-Japanese Asian to have two million-selling albums in Japan and is one of only two artists to have six consecutive number-one studio albums on the Oricon charts since her début.
2000-02 - Debut: At age eleven, BoA accompanied her older brother to an SM Entertainment talent search. Though her brother was the one who auditioned, SM talent scouts instead took notice of BoA and offered her a contract. Her parents initially opposed the notion of BoA’s leaving school to enter the entertainment business but eventually consented at her brother’s persuasion. BoA underwent two years of training (involving vocal, dance, and Japanese lessons), and at the age of thirteen released her début album ID; Peace B in South Korea on August 25, 2000. The album was moderately successful; it entered the Top 10 of the South Korean charts and sold around 156,000 units. Meanwhile, her Korean record label, SM Entertainment, made arrangements with Japanese label Avex Trax to launch her music career in Japan. In early 2001, BoA released her first mini-album, Don’t Start Now; it sold around 90,000 units. After its release, she took a hiatus from the Korean music industry to focus on the Japanese market at which time she worked to solidify her skills in Japanese.
BoA began her Japanese music career singing at the Avex-owned club Velfarre. In 2001, she released her début Japanese single, a Japanese version of the song, “ID; Peace B” (originally from the eponymous album). The single reached #20 on the Oricon chart and was followed by “Amazing Kiss”, “Kimochi wa Tsutawaru” (気持ちはつたわる), and “Listen to My Heart”; the last became the singer’s first single to enter the Oricon’s Top Five. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, BoA recorded the charity single “The Meaning of Peace” with Kumi Koda (倖田來未) as part of Avex’s Song Nation project to raise funds for charity. Her début Japanese album, Listen to My Heart, was released on March 13, 2002. The album was a breakthrough in BoA’s career: it became an RIAJ-certified million-seller and debuted atop the Oricon, making it the first album by a Korean artist to reach the top. A single, “Every Heart: Minna no Kimochi” (Every Heart -ミンナノキモチ-), was released on the same day as the album. After the release of Listen to My Heart, BoA released her second Korean studio album, No.1, a month later. The album sold around 544,000 units and became the fourth-best-selling record of the year in South Korea. Jumping into the World (a Japanese re-release of the mini-album Don’t Start Now) and the Japanese single “Don’t Start Now” were released a month later on the same day.
2003-05 - Commercial Success: BoA then released her seventh single “Valenti”. It became a Top Five single for the artist, peaking at the number-two position on the Oricon. BoA released two more singles “Kiseki / No.1” and “Jewel Song / Beside You: Boku o Yobu Koe”, both which also peaked at the number-three position. At the end of the year, BoA released her second Korean mini-album Miracle.
BoA’s second Japanese studio album, Valenti (2003), became her best-selling album, with over 1,249,000 copies sold. In support of the album, BoA launched BoA 1st Live Tour Valenti, her first Japanese concert tour. Later that year, she released two Korean albums, Atlantis Princess and the mini-album Shine We Are!. The former was the fifth-best-selling South Korean record of the year with around 345,000 units sold; the latter sold around 58,000 units and was the fifty-second-best-selling record. Her third Japanese studio album, Love & Honesty (2004) was a musical “change in direction”: it contained a rock-dance song (“Rock with You”) and “harder” R&B. Though the album failed to match Valenti in sales, it topped the Oricon chart for two weeks and became RIAJ-certified triple-platinum. In support of the album, BoA held a tour, Live Concert Tour 2004: Love & Honesty. In contrast with 1st Live Tour, which “emphasized exotic Asian design”, the Love & Honesty tour had an “outer-space, sci-fi” theme; among the props were a three-story-high space ship and the robot Asimo. The tour, which started in Saitama and ended in Yokohama, spanned nine performances and attracted about 105,000 attendants. Her first compilation album, Best of Soul (2005), however, sold over a million copies, making BoA the first non-Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan.
BoA reinvented her image on her fourth Korean album, My Name (2004); she left the “cute” and “youthful” style that had characterized earlier years and presented herself as “sexy” and “sultry”. The album was the beginning of a foray into the Chinese market and contained two songs sung in Mandarin Chinese.The sales of BoA’s Korean albums began to decline: the album sold 191,000 units and became the eleventh-best-selling South Korean album of the year. Her fifth Korean album, Girls on Top, continued her image change. The album portrayed the singer as more “mature and self-confident” and was a “declaration of war on male chauvinism”; the “bohemian” look of the cover photograph represented “freedom and depth”, while music videos and album photographs that portrayed BoA in traditional Korean dress brought the “idea of Korean womanhood” into her music. The album also continued BoA’s foray into the Chinese market and, like the previous album, contained Mandarin Chinese songs. The album sold less than the previous album; it was the fourteenth-best-selling record of the year in South Korea with 113,000 units sold.
2006-08 - Sales Decline: In 2006, BoA was mostly inactive in South Korea as she focused her attention on Japan; however, on September 21, 2006, she released her first digital single in Korea, a Korean version of “Key of Heart”. Her fourth Japanese studio album, Outgrow, was released on February 15, 2006. The limited CD+DVD edition of the album contained music videos of the album’s singles and a password to access a special version of the official website. The album reached the number-one spot on the Oricon chart for its first week of release, making it her fourth consecutive Japanese album to do so. It had low début sales, however; with 220,000 copies sold, it became her lowest-selling first-week début for a studio album at that point. “Do the Motion”, the first single from the album, reached the top spot, making her the fourth non-Japanese Asian to have a number-one single on the Oricon charts. “Merry Christmas from BoA” (2005), the album’s last single, was the singer’s first digital single. In support of Outgrow, BoA launched a special Zepp tour, B0A The Live, on September 29, 2006. The tour, which lasted until October 29, started from Nagoya and contained twelve shows, two in each of the following cities: Nagoya, Fukuoka, Osaka, Tokyo, Sendai, and Sapporo. She staged her first Christmas concert on December 7, 2006.
BoA’s fifth Japanese studio album, Made in Twenty (20) (2007), continued her transition from a “teenage girl” image to a more mature image. The album, which contained R&B and dance songs as well as ballads, debuted at the top of the weekly Oricon charts, making the album her sixth in a row to do so. She began using a personal computer for composing one of the songs (“No More Make Me Sick”). On March 31, 2007, she launched a nationwide tour of Japan in support of the album. The tour, which sold about 70,000 tickets, was, according to BoA, “the biggest concert” she had ever given. Two tracks from the singles of Made in Twenty (20) were used as theme songs; “Your Color”, from the single “Nanairo no Ashita: Brand New Beat / Your Color” (2006), was used as the ending theme song for the Japanese release of the Xbox 360 game Ninety-Nine Nights. “Key of Heart”, from the single “Key of Heart / Dotch” (2006), was the ending theme for the Japanese release of the movie Over the Hedge. She also released an English version of “Key of Heart”, which was only available on the first press edition of the single. Later in 2007, Anycall (a Samsung brand) signed BoA, Xiah (of TVXQ), Tablo (of Epik High), and jazz pianist Jin Bora onto “Anyban”, a band created specifically to promote Anycall. The band released the single, “TPL (Talk, Play, Love)”.
With her sixth Japanese album, The Face(2008), BoA took more creative control over her music. At this time, BoA was influenced by electro-pop. Additionally, BoA included “happy spring” songs (the lead single “Sweet Impact” and its B-side, “Bad Drive”), a guitar-driven “groovy dance” song (2007’s “Lose Your Mind”), and ballads. Lyrically, BoA focused mainly on love, though “Be with You.” (2008) was about a person’s relationship with their dog. The album debuted at the top of the weekly Oricon charts, making BoA one of only two artists in Japan to have six consecutive studio albums top the Oricon weekly charts (the other is Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎あゆみ), who has eight consecutive number-one albums).
2008-now - USA Foray: On 2 Sept' 08, SM Entertainment announced that BoA would make her American début under a new subsidiary label, SM Entertainment USA. A press conference was held on September 10, 2008 at the Seoul Imperial Palace Hotel to clarify the details of her American début. BoA’s début American single “Eat You Up” was released online on October 21, 2008; The physical single was to be released in stores on November 11, 2008, but SM instead released a promotional CD containing dance remixes of “Eat You Up”. “Eat You Up” became a number-one Breakout on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The remix of “Eat You Up” featuring rapper Flo Rida and was slated for release in late November and leaked onto the internet in December. BoA performed “Eat You Up” as well as other songs at YouTube’s Tokyo Live concert, and performed in New York City on December 3, 2008, as well as the Jingle Ball at the Anaheim Honda Center on December 6, 2008. She also performed the song “Look Who’s Talking” at the event.
BoA released a triple-A-side single on February 18, 2009, “Eien/Universe/Believe in Love”. On the same day, the Ravex single “Believe in Love” was released, featuring vocals by BoA. Her second compilation album, Best & USA was released on March 18. The album will be released in a two-disc or one-disc edition. The former will contain one disc with Japanese songs and one with her début American album; the latter has fourteen Japanese songs and two songs from her American début album. BoA’s self-titled English album was released on March 17. BoA headlined as a performer for the San Francisco Pride Festival on June 28, 2009 alongside Solange Knowles and The Cliks. She debuted her next single “Energetic”, performing it for the first time in public. She also performed “Eat You Up” and “I Did It for Love (feat. Sean Garrett).
On August 31, SM USA released BoA Deluxe, the repackaged version of her début English album. The album contained two new tracks and the radio edit version of “Energetic”. After the release of BoA Deluxe, BoA went back to the Japanese market releasing a new single entitled “Bump Bump!” (October 2009), which features label-mate Verbal from [aritst]M-Flo. Following the release of “Bump Bump!”, BoA released “Mamoritai: White Wishes” (まもりたい ～White Wishes～) (December 2009) and she held a Christmas concert in December. Her seventh Japanese album, Identity was released on February 10, 2010.
On March 1, 2010, SM Entertainment announced that BoA will make a comeback in South Korea for her 10th début anniversary which is going to be on August 25, 2010 and is going to release a full-length Korean album five years after her Girls on Top album in 2005.
Sites: Discogs
2) A Croatian art rock band which was especially prominent during the 1980s. The band formed in Zagreb, then SR Croatia in 1974, when its founding members, Mladen Puljiz and Slavko Remenarić, switched their interest from classical music to rock music, inspired by art-rock acts such as Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Peter Gabriel.
The group started its concert activity in 1979 with a line-up consisted of: Mladen Puljiz (keyboards, vocals), Slavko Remenarić (guitar), Igor Šoštarić (drums) and Damir Košpić (bass guitar). The band moved towards the then actual New Romantic sound and fashion and after the release of their debut album for Suzy in 1981, they were voted by the readers of the prominent Yugoslav musical magazine Džuboks as the best upcoming act of the year.
Their next album Ritam strasti (Rhythm of passion) followed by around hundred concerts around former Yugoslavia brought them even higher popularity. Despite the fact that their next album Govor tjela (Body language) included some successful hits, the band fell into creative crisis and thus the group halted its activities until 1989 when the group got a new rhythm section consisted of the drummer Paolo Sfeci (former member of Aerodrom and Parni valjak) and the bass player Zvonimir Bučević (prominent session musician).
In 1990 the band released the album Prvi Val (First Wave), and performed as a support act of David Bowie's concert at Maksimir stadium in Zagreb in front of over 50000 people. Two years after, they released the compilation album 81-92 featuring live performances and studio recordings with new arrangements. The CD also included the song Zemlja, which was recorded in 1991 for the Rock za Hrvatsku (Rock for Croatia) music project tributed to the Croatian War of Independence. In 1993, a new member of the group is the keyboard player Gojko Tomljanović. In the next year they release the CD Kraj detinjstva (End of Childhood) featuring guest appearances by prominent artists such as: Josipa Lisac, Dino Dvornik and Vanna. The feature song Kao mir (Like peace), a duet with Jospia Lisac was nominated in two categories for the prestigious Croatian music award Porin.
In 2002 Croatia Records released the integral versions of the two first albums on CD, which was awarded with Porin in the Re-release of the year category. Following this succes, the band also released a compilation featuring songs from their third and fourth album in 2004 under the title Kao nekad (Like in the old days). All of the songs were remastered and in some of them the authors modified the arrangements. The CD also contains bonus tracks such as Boa Constrictor, an experimental instrumental, which includes sound effect that Puljiz i Remenarić recorded back in 1974 on their old Grundig 2-track open-reel tape recorder.
The group is still active.
3) A Chilean power groove metal band formed by guitarist / producer Gerhard Wolleter with the idea to just have fun and play live but with the intention to deliver the maximum power and intensity as possible incorporating power Latin grooves and mixing them with thrash metal to put a fresh and original style to a trend that is repeating it self over and over again. Gerhard ask long time friend Gustavo¨Horse¨Romero to join him in the project as a singer and a bass player, the music and lyrics for 9 songs were all ready written by Gerhard as well as the impossible drum parts also composed by Wolleter.
1. South Korean singer
2. Croatian … Read Full Bio ↴Boa is a name of several artists:
1. South Korean singer
2. Croatian art rock band
3. Chilean power groove metal band
1) A mononym of South Korean singer Kwon Boa / 권보아 [[url=/tag/Hangul]Ko] (b. 5 Nov 1986, in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) - a backronym of 'Beat of Angel' (active in South Korea, Japan & USA). She was discovered by SM Entertainment talent agents, when she accompanied her older brother to a talent search. In 1998, she signed to SM Entertainment & after two years of training, débuted with “ID; Peace B” ('00). Two years later, she released her Japanese début album, “Listen To My Heart” (Avex Trax). Her USA début was, the single, “Eat You Up” (14 Oct '08, SM Entertainment USA), followed by an English-language début album, “BoA” (17 Mar '09).
Influenced by hip-hop & rnb singers - such as Nelly & Janet Jackson - many of BoA’s songs fall into those genres. As the singer feels she does not “have any talent for writing [songs]”, the writing and composition of her songs are handled mostly by her staff; for this reason, she has drawn some criticism. (Though only a few of her songs are self-written, BoA began composing on her own with her Japanese début album Listen to My Heart, in which she co-wrote and composed the song “Nothing’s Gonna Change”.)
BoA’s multilingual skills (she speaks Japanese and conversational English along with her native Korean and has recorded songs in Mandarin Chinese) have contributed to her commercial success in South Korea and Japan and her popularity throughout East Asia. She is the only non-Japanese Asian to have two million-selling albums in Japan and is one of only two artists to have six consecutive number-one studio albums on the Oricon charts since her début.
2000-02 - Debut: At age eleven, BoA accompanied her older brother to an SM Entertainment talent search. Though her brother was the one who auditioned, SM talent scouts instead took notice of BoA and offered her a contract. Her parents initially opposed the notion of BoA’s leaving school to enter the entertainment business but eventually consented at her brother’s persuasion. BoA underwent two years of training (involving vocal, dance, and Japanese lessons), and at the age of thirteen released her début album ID; Peace B in South Korea on August 25, 2000. The album was moderately successful; it entered the Top 10 of the South Korean charts and sold around 156,000 units. Meanwhile, her Korean record label, SM Entertainment, made arrangements with Japanese label Avex Trax to launch her music career in Japan. In early 2001, BoA released her first mini-album, Don’t Start Now; it sold around 90,000 units. After its release, she took a hiatus from the Korean music industry to focus on the Japanese market at which time she worked to solidify her skills in Japanese.
BoA began her Japanese music career singing at the Avex-owned club Velfarre. In 2001, she released her début Japanese single, a Japanese version of the song, “ID; Peace B” (originally from the eponymous album). The single reached #20 on the Oricon chart and was followed by “Amazing Kiss”, “Kimochi wa Tsutawaru” (気持ちはつたわる), and “Listen to My Heart”; the last became the singer’s first single to enter the Oricon’s Top Five. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, BoA recorded the charity single “The Meaning of Peace” with Kumi Koda (倖田來未) as part of Avex’s Song Nation project to raise funds for charity. Her début Japanese album, Listen to My Heart, was released on March 13, 2002. The album was a breakthrough in BoA’s career: it became an RIAJ-certified million-seller and debuted atop the Oricon, making it the first album by a Korean artist to reach the top. A single, “Every Heart: Minna no Kimochi” (Every Heart -ミンナノキモチ-), was released on the same day as the album. After the release of Listen to My Heart, BoA released her second Korean studio album, No.1, a month later. The album sold around 544,000 units and became the fourth-best-selling record of the year in South Korea. Jumping into the World (a Japanese re-release of the mini-album Don’t Start Now) and the Japanese single “Don’t Start Now” were released a month later on the same day.
2003-05 - Commercial Success: BoA then released her seventh single “Valenti”. It became a Top Five single for the artist, peaking at the number-two position on the Oricon. BoA released two more singles “Kiseki / No.1” and “Jewel Song / Beside You: Boku o Yobu Koe”, both which also peaked at the number-three position. At the end of the year, BoA released her second Korean mini-album Miracle.
BoA’s second Japanese studio album, Valenti (2003), became her best-selling album, with over 1,249,000 copies sold. In support of the album, BoA launched BoA 1st Live Tour Valenti, her first Japanese concert tour. Later that year, she released two Korean albums, Atlantis Princess and the mini-album Shine We Are!. The former was the fifth-best-selling South Korean record of the year with around 345,000 units sold; the latter sold around 58,000 units and was the fifty-second-best-selling record. Her third Japanese studio album, Love & Honesty (2004) was a musical “change in direction”: it contained a rock-dance song (“Rock with You”) and “harder” R&B. Though the album failed to match Valenti in sales, it topped the Oricon chart for two weeks and became RIAJ-certified triple-platinum. In support of the album, BoA held a tour, Live Concert Tour 2004: Love & Honesty. In contrast with 1st Live Tour, which “emphasized exotic Asian design”, the Love & Honesty tour had an “outer-space, sci-fi” theme; among the props were a three-story-high space ship and the robot Asimo. The tour, which started in Saitama and ended in Yokohama, spanned nine performances and attracted about 105,000 attendants. Her first compilation album, Best of Soul (2005), however, sold over a million copies, making BoA the first non-Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan.
BoA reinvented her image on her fourth Korean album, My Name (2004); she left the “cute” and “youthful” style that had characterized earlier years and presented herself as “sexy” and “sultry”. The album was the beginning of a foray into the Chinese market and contained two songs sung in Mandarin Chinese.The sales of BoA’s Korean albums began to decline: the album sold 191,000 units and became the eleventh-best-selling South Korean album of the year. Her fifth Korean album, Girls on Top, continued her image change. The album portrayed the singer as more “mature and self-confident” and was a “declaration of war on male chauvinism”; the “bohemian” look of the cover photograph represented “freedom and depth”, while music videos and album photographs that portrayed BoA in traditional Korean dress brought the “idea of Korean womanhood” into her music. The album also continued BoA’s foray into the Chinese market and, like the previous album, contained Mandarin Chinese songs. The album sold less than the previous album; it was the fourteenth-best-selling record of the year in South Korea with 113,000 units sold.
2006-08 - Sales Decline: In 2006, BoA was mostly inactive in South Korea as she focused her attention on Japan; however, on September 21, 2006, she released her first digital single in Korea, a Korean version of “Key of Heart”. Her fourth Japanese studio album, Outgrow, was released on February 15, 2006. The limited CD+DVD edition of the album contained music videos of the album’s singles and a password to access a special version of the official website. The album reached the number-one spot on the Oricon chart for its first week of release, making it her fourth consecutive Japanese album to do so. It had low début sales, however; with 220,000 copies sold, it became her lowest-selling first-week début for a studio album at that point. “Do the Motion”, the first single from the album, reached the top spot, making her the fourth non-Japanese Asian to have a number-one single on the Oricon charts. “Merry Christmas from BoA” (2005), the album’s last single, was the singer’s first digital single. In support of Outgrow, BoA launched a special Zepp tour, B0A The Live, on September 29, 2006. The tour, which lasted until October 29, started from Nagoya and contained twelve shows, two in each of the following cities: Nagoya, Fukuoka, Osaka, Tokyo, Sendai, and Sapporo. She staged her first Christmas concert on December 7, 2006.
BoA’s fifth Japanese studio album, Made in Twenty (20) (2007), continued her transition from a “teenage girl” image to a more mature image. The album, which contained R&B and dance songs as well as ballads, debuted at the top of the weekly Oricon charts, making the album her sixth in a row to do so. She began using a personal computer for composing one of the songs (“No More Make Me Sick”). On March 31, 2007, she launched a nationwide tour of Japan in support of the album. The tour, which sold about 70,000 tickets, was, according to BoA, “the biggest concert” she had ever given. Two tracks from the singles of Made in Twenty (20) were used as theme songs; “Your Color”, from the single “Nanairo no Ashita: Brand New Beat / Your Color” (2006), was used as the ending theme song for the Japanese release of the Xbox 360 game Ninety-Nine Nights. “Key of Heart”, from the single “Key of Heart / Dotch” (2006), was the ending theme for the Japanese release of the movie Over the Hedge. She also released an English version of “Key of Heart”, which was only available on the first press edition of the single. Later in 2007, Anycall (a Samsung brand) signed BoA, Xiah (of TVXQ), Tablo (of Epik High), and jazz pianist Jin Bora onto “Anyban”, a band created specifically to promote Anycall. The band released the single, “TPL (Talk, Play, Love)”.
With her sixth Japanese album, The Face(2008), BoA took more creative control over her music. At this time, BoA was influenced by electro-pop. Additionally, BoA included “happy spring” songs (the lead single “Sweet Impact” and its B-side, “Bad Drive”), a guitar-driven “groovy dance” song (2007’s “Lose Your Mind”), and ballads. Lyrically, BoA focused mainly on love, though “Be with You.” (2008) was about a person’s relationship with their dog. The album debuted at the top of the weekly Oricon charts, making BoA one of only two artists in Japan to have six consecutive studio albums top the Oricon weekly charts (the other is Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎あゆみ), who has eight consecutive number-one albums).
2008-now - USA Foray: On 2 Sept' 08, SM Entertainment announced that BoA would make her American début under a new subsidiary label, SM Entertainment USA. A press conference was held on September 10, 2008 at the Seoul Imperial Palace Hotel to clarify the details of her American début. BoA’s début American single “Eat You Up” was released online on October 21, 2008; The physical single was to be released in stores on November 11, 2008, but SM instead released a promotional CD containing dance remixes of “Eat You Up”. “Eat You Up” became a number-one Breakout on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The remix of “Eat You Up” featuring rapper Flo Rida and was slated for release in late November and leaked onto the internet in December. BoA performed “Eat You Up” as well as other songs at YouTube’s Tokyo Live concert, and performed in New York City on December 3, 2008, as well as the Jingle Ball at the Anaheim Honda Center on December 6, 2008. She also performed the song “Look Who’s Talking” at the event.
BoA released a triple-A-side single on February 18, 2009, “Eien/Universe/Believe in Love”. On the same day, the Ravex single “Believe in Love” was released, featuring vocals by BoA. Her second compilation album, Best & USA was released on March 18. The album will be released in a two-disc or one-disc edition. The former will contain one disc with Japanese songs and one with her début American album; the latter has fourteen Japanese songs and two songs from her American début album. BoA’s self-titled English album was released on March 17. BoA headlined as a performer for the San Francisco Pride Festival on June 28, 2009 alongside Solange Knowles and The Cliks. She debuted her next single “Energetic”, performing it for the first time in public. She also performed “Eat You Up” and “I Did It for Love (feat. Sean Garrett).
On August 31, SM USA released BoA Deluxe, the repackaged version of her début English album. The album contained two new tracks and the radio edit version of “Energetic”. After the release of BoA Deluxe, BoA went back to the Japanese market releasing a new single entitled “Bump Bump!” (October 2009), which features label-mate Verbal from [aritst]M-Flo. Following the release of “Bump Bump!”, BoA released “Mamoritai: White Wishes” (まもりたい ～White Wishes～) (December 2009) and she held a Christmas concert in December. Her seventh Japanese album, Identity was released on February 10, 2010.
On March 1, 2010, SM Entertainment announced that BoA will make a comeback in South Korea for her 10th début anniversary which is going to be on August 25, 2010 and is going to release a full-length Korean album five years after her Girls on Top album in 2005.
Sites: Discogs
2) A Croatian art rock band which was especially prominent during the 1980s. The band formed in Zagreb, then SR Croatia in 1974, when its founding members, Mladen Puljiz and Slavko Remenarić, switched their interest from classical music to rock music, inspired by art-rock acts such as Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Peter Gabriel.
The group started its concert activity in 1979 with a line-up consisted of: Mladen Puljiz (keyboards, vocals), Slavko Remenarić (guitar), Igor Šoštarić (drums) and Damir Košpić (bass guitar). The band moved towards the then actual New Romantic sound and fashion and after the release of their debut album for Suzy in 1981, they were voted by the readers of the prominent Yugoslav musical magazine Džuboks as the best upcoming act of the year.
Their next album Ritam strasti (Rhythm of passion) followed by around hundred concerts around former Yugoslavia brought them even higher popularity. Despite the fact that their next album Govor tjela (Body language) included some successful hits, the band fell into creative crisis and thus the group halted its activities until 1989 when the group got a new rhythm section consisted of the drummer Paolo Sfeci (former member of Aerodrom and Parni valjak) and the bass player Zvonimir Bučević (prominent session musician).
In 1990 the band released the album Prvi Val (First Wave), and performed as a support act of David Bowie's concert at Maksimir stadium in Zagreb in front of over 50000 people. Two years after, they released the compilation album 81-92 featuring live performances and studio recordings with new arrangements. The CD also included the song Zemlja, which was recorded in 1991 for the Rock za Hrvatsku (Rock for Croatia) music project tributed to the Croatian War of Independence. In 1993, a new member of the group is the keyboard player Gojko Tomljanović. In the next year they release the CD Kraj detinjstva (End of Childhood) featuring guest appearances by prominent artists such as: Josipa Lisac, Dino Dvornik and Vanna. The feature song Kao mir (Like peace), a duet with Jospia Lisac was nominated in two categories for the prestigious Croatian music award Porin.
In 2002 Croatia Records released the integral versions of the two first albums on CD, which was awarded with Porin in the Re-release of the year category. Following this succes, the band also released a compilation featuring songs from their third and fourth album in 2004 under the title Kao nekad (Like in the old days). All of the songs were remastered and in some of them the authors modified the arrangements. The CD also contains bonus tracks such as Boa Constrictor, an experimental instrumental, which includes sound effect that Puljiz i Remenarić recorded back in 1974 on their old Grundig 2-track open-reel tape recorder.
The group is still active.
3) A Chilean power groove metal band formed by guitarist / producer Gerhard Wolleter with the idea to just have fun and play live but with the intention to deliver the maximum power and intensity as possible incorporating power Latin grooves and mixing them with thrash metal to put a fresh and original style to a trend that is repeating it self over and over again. Gerhard ask long time friend Gustavo¨Horse¨Romero to join him in the project as a singer and a bass player, the music and lyrics for 9 songs were all ready written by Gerhard as well as the impossible drum parts also composed by Wolleter.
Moon & Sunrise
BoA Lyrics
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青い空はいつも同じで
孤独な不思議さね
悲しみも寂しさもすべて
隠しているみたい
すれちがう度に そういつか
こんな私もまた la la la la
ひとつの思い出を心に
刻み込んだみたい
優しい笑顔
笑いあう あの二人の幸せにも
もう最後の火が消えるころ
風が吹いて 町は今日も人並みあふれる
君の声が少し離れてゆく
空は高く 君の心みたいに遠くて
涙だけが私の傍にいる
そう 忘れないよ君を ah
白い雲はいつも気まぐれ
時代と君のよう
喜びもぬくもりも いつか
形を変えてゆく
あのころ見てた映画さえも
リバイバルに代わり la la la la
幼かった少年たちの今は もうわから無い
人はいくつの 思い出を作るのだろう
でも言える 君と会えてよかった本当
月が照らす 夜が明ける 太陽が輝く
そんな風に 私忘れてゆく
嘘でも ねえ微笑むことは素敵なことね
涙だけが 素直に泣いている
また会えば笑えるように
Woo, woo, oh oh, oh oh yeah yeah, oh oh oh oh woo woo
風が不意いて
町は今日も人並みあふれる
君の声が少し離れてゆく
月が照らす 夜が明ける 太陽が輝く
そんな風に 私忘れてゆく
嘘でも ねえ微笑むことは素敵なことね
涙だけが 素直に泣いている
また会えば笑えるように
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, yeah, oh oh yeah
孤独な不思議さね
悲しみも寂しさもすべて
隠しているみたい
すれちがう度に そういつか
こんな私もまた la la la la
ひとつの思い出を心に
刻み込んだみたい
優しい笑顔
笑いあう あの二人の幸せにも
もう最後の火が消えるころ
風が吹いて 町は今日も人並みあふれる
君の声が少し離れてゆく
空は高く 君の心みたいに遠くて
涙だけが私の傍にいる
そう 忘れないよ君を ah
白い雲はいつも気まぐれ
時代と君のよう
喜びもぬくもりも いつか
形を変えてゆく
あのころ見てた映画さえも
リバイバルに代わり la la la la
幼かった少年たちの今は もうわから無い
人はいくつの 思い出を作るのだろう
でも言える 君と会えてよかった本当
月が照らす 夜が明ける 太陽が輝く
そんな風に 私忘れてゆく
嘘でも ねえ微笑むことは素敵なことね
涙だけが 素直に泣いている
また会えば笑えるように
Woo, woo, oh oh, oh oh yeah yeah, oh oh oh oh woo woo
風が不意いて
町は今日も人並みあふれる
君の声が少し離れてゆく
月が照らす 夜が明ける 太陽が輝く
そんな風に 私忘れてゆく
嘘でも ねえ微笑むことは素敵なことね
涙だけが 素直に泣いている
また会えば笑えるように
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, yeah, oh oh yeah
"Moon & Sunrise" by Boa is a beautiful ballad about memories, love, and loss. The song reflects on how time passes by, things change, and all that is left are the memories we hold dear. The lyrics express the feeling of loneliness and sadness that come with the realization that all good things must come to an end. The song opens with a beautiful line about the blue sky that always remains the same, no matter what. It is a poignant metaphor for the continuity of life, but it also highlights how nothing remains the same, and everything changes.
The second verse of the song talks about a couple that has now parted ways. The singer remembers their moments of happiness and laughter, and how everything changed when it all came to an end. The song also talks about the passage of time and how memories fade away, leaving only tears behind. The chorus of the song reiterates the theme of moving on, reminding the singer that she must move on even when the memories linger on. The song ends on a hopeful note, hoping that they will meet again and find happiness once again.
Overall, "Moon & Sunrise" is a beautiful song that captures the essence of love, loss, and hope. It speaks to the heart and reminds us that, no matter what happens in life, memories will always remain, and we must cherish the good ones and move on from the bad ones.
Line by Line Meaning
青い空はいつも同じで
The blue sky always looks the same.
孤独な不思議さね
It feels like a lonely wonder.
悲しみも寂しさもすべて
My sadness and loneliness are all hidden away.
隠しているみたい
As if they're being concealed.
すれちがう度に そういつか
As I pass by, someday...
こんな私もまた la la la la
I'll be like this again, la la la la.
ひとつの思い出を心に
I etched that memory into my heart.
刻み込んだみたい
It's like it's been engraved there.
優しい笑顔
Your gentle smile.
笑いあう あの二人の幸せにも
Even as we laughed together, that happiness felt distant.
もう最後の火が消えるころ
By the time the last fire goes out...
風が吹いて 町は今日も人並みあふれる
The wind will blow, and the town will still be filled with people.
君の声が少し離れてゆく
Your voice is growing distant.
空は高く 君の心みたいに遠くて
The sky is high and far away, like your heart.
涙だけが私の傍にいる
Only my tears are there beside me.
そう 忘れないよ君を ah
I won't forget you, ah.
白い雲はいつも気まぐれ
The white clouds are always capricious.
時代と君のよう
Just like time and you.
喜びもぬくもりも いつか
Happiness and warmth will someday...
形を変えてゆく
Transform and change.
あのころ見てた映画さえも
Even the movies we watched back then...
リバイバルに代わり la la la la
Have been replaced by revivals, la la la la.
幼かった少年たちの今は もうわから無い
I don't know where those young boys are now.
人はいくつの 思い出を作るのだろう
How many memories do people make in their lives?
でも言える 君と会えてよかった本当
But I can say, it was really good to meet you.
月が照らす 夜が明ける 太陽が輝く
The moon shines, the night turns to day, and the sun shines.
そんな風に 私忘れてゆく
In that way, I'll forget about myself.
嘘でも ねえ微笑むことは素敵なことね
Even if it's a lie, smiling is a great thing.
涙だけが 素直に泣いている
Only tears are crying honestly.
また会えば笑えるように
So that I can smile again when we meet.
Woo, woo, oh oh, oh oh yeah yeah, oh oh oh oh woo woo
Woo, woo, oh oh, oh oh yeah yeah, oh oh oh oh woo woo.
風が不意いて
The wind unexpectedly.
町は今日も人並みあふれる
The town is still overflowing with people today.
君の声が少し離れてゆく
Your voice is growing distant.
月が照らす 夜が明ける 太陽が輝く
The moon shines, the night turns to day, and the sun shines.
そんな風に 私忘れてゆく
In that way, I'll forget about myself.
嘘でも ねえ微笑むことは素敵なことね
Even if it's a lie, smiling is a great thing.
涙だけが 素直に泣いている
Only tears are crying honestly.
また会えば笑えるように
So that I can smile again when we meet.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, yeah, oh oh yeah
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, yeah, oh oh yeah.
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: Boa, Ken Matsubara, Natsumi Watanabe
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@kangta112927
あおいそらはいつもおなじで こどくなふしぎさね
かなしみもさびしさもすべて かくしているみたい
すれちがうたびにそういつか こんなわたしもまた
ひとつのおもいでをこころに きざみこんだみたい
やさしいえがお わらいあうあのふたりのしあわせにも
もうさいごのひがきえるころ
かぜがふいて まちはきょうもひとなみあふれる
きみのこえがすこし はなれてゆく
そらはたかく きみのこころみたいに とおくて
涙だけが わたしのそばにいる
そうわすれないよ きみを
しろいくもはいつもきまぐれ じだいときみのよう
よろこびもぬくもりもいつか かたちをかえてゆく
あのころみてたえいがさえも りばいばるにかわり
おさなかったしょうねんたちの いまはもうわからない
ひとはいくつの おもいでをつくるのだろう でもいえる
きみとあえてよかったほんと
つきがてらす よるがあける たいようがかがやく
そんなふうにわたし わすれてゆく
うそでもねえ ほほえむことはすてきなことね
涙だけが すなおにないている
またあえば わらえるように
かぜがふいて まちはきょうもひとなみあふれる
きみのこえがすこし はなれてゆく
つきがてらす よるがあける たいようがかがやく
そんなふうにわたし わすれてゆく
うそでもねえ ほほえむことはすてきなことね
涙だけが すなおにないている
またあえば わらえるように
@shervianawiratania9628
aoi sora wa itsumo onaji de kodoku na fushigisa ne
kanashimi mo sabishisa mo subete kakushite iru mitai
surechigau tabi ni sou itsuka konna watashi mo mata
hitotsu no omoide wo kokoro ni kizamikonda mitai
yasashii egao warai-au ano futari no shiawase ni mo
mou saigo no hi ga kieru koro
kaze ga fuite machi wa kyou mo hitonami afureru
kimi no koe ga sukoshi hanarete yuku
sora wa takaku kimi no kokoro mitai ni tookute
namida dake ga watashi no soba ni iru
sou wasurenai yo kimi wo
shiroi kumo wa itsumo kimagure jidai to kimi no you
yorokobi no nukumori mo itsuka katachi wo kaete yuku
ano koro mite’ta eiga sae mo ribaibaru ni kawari
osanakatta shounen-tachi no ima wa mou wakaranai
hito wa ikutsu no omoide wo tsuku no darou demo ieru
kimi to aete yokatta honto
tsuki ga terasu yoru ga akeru taiyou ga kagayaku
sonna fuu ni watashi wasurete yuku
uso demo nee hohoemu koto wa suteki na koto ne
namida dake ga sunao ni naite iru
mata aeba waraeru you ni
kaze ga fuite machi wa kyou mo hitonami afureru
kimi no koe ga sukoshi hanarete yuku
tsuki ga terasu yoru ga akeru taiyou ga kagayaku
sonna fuu ni watashi wasurete yuku
uso demo nee hohoemu koto wa suteki na koto ne
namida dake ga sunao ni naite iru
mata aeba waraeru you ni
@qwermnbv1287
聴く度に胸が熱くなる神曲
@ksk91mtym37
「VALENTI」のアルバムで、VALENTIとJEWEL SONG聴きたくて借りたけど、これにハマったのを思い出す。
MDに落とす時代ｗそういう方いるかな？
@altnishi1984
ワイもまさにそれ！
アルバムの中で一番聴いた曲かも。
不思議なものでさ、懐かしい曲聴くと当時の記憶も蘇ってくるんだよね。
ちなみにＭＤの時代やったよん。
@ksk91mtym37
@@altnishi1984 まさしく同じですね！シングルカットされてましたっけ？
片言っぽいですが、上手いと思います！まさにBoAの全盛期！って感じですよね～。
好き。。。
MDに必死で落として、何回も聴きましたよ、30代超になりましたｗこれ聴くと、「あなたにとって月か太陽みたいな存在になりたい」って思います。当時の好きな人とか思い出しますね
@puckpuck2460
高校生だった記憶が・・・懐かしい、アルバム買ってこの歌聞いたときにリピートを押してた
@kangta112927
あおいそらはいつもおなじで こどくなふしぎさね
かなしみもさびしさもすべて かくしているみたい
すれちがうたびにそういつか こんなわたしもまた
ひとつのおもいでをこころに きざみこんだみたい
やさしいえがお わらいあうあのふたりのしあわせにも
もうさいごのひがきえるころ
かぜがふいて まちはきょうもひとなみあふれる
きみのこえがすこし はなれてゆく
そらはたかく きみのこころみたいに とおくて
涙だけが わたしのそばにいる
そうわすれないよ きみを
しろいくもはいつもきまぐれ じだいときみのよう
よろこびもぬくもりもいつか かたちをかえてゆく
あのころみてたえいがさえも りばいばるにかわり
おさなかったしょうねんたちの いまはもうわからない
ひとはいくつの おもいでをつくるのだろう でもいえる
きみとあえてよかったほんと
つきがてらす よるがあける たいようがかがやく
そんなふうにわたし わすれてゆく
うそでもねえ ほほえむことはすてきなことね
涙だけが すなおにないている
またあえば わらえるように
かぜがふいて まちはきょうもひとなみあふれる
きみのこえがすこし はなれてゆく
つきがてらす よるがあける たいようがかがやく
そんなふうにわたし わすれてゆく
うそでもねえ ほほえむことはすてきなことね
涙だけが すなおにないている
またあえば わらえるように
@yuuji.73y
作詞 BoA Natsumi Watanabe 作曲 Ken Matsubara 青い空はいつも同じで 孤独な不思議さね 悲しみも寂しさも全て 隠しているみたい すれ違うたび そういつか こんな私もまた ひとつの思い出を心に 刻み込んだみたい やさしい笑顔 笑い合うあの 二人の幸せにも もう 最後の火が消える頃 風が吹いて 街は今日も人波み溢れる 君の声が少し 離れてゆく 空は高く 君の心みたいに 遠くて 涙 だけが 私のそばにいる そう 忘れないよ 君を 白い雲はいつも気まぐれ 時代と君のよう 喜びも温もりもいつか 形を変えてゆく あの頃観てた 映画さえも リバイバルに変わり 幼かった少年たちの 今はもうわからない 人は幾つの 思い出を作るのだろう でも言える 君と 会えてよかった 本当 月が照らす 夜があける 太陽が 輝く そんなふうに私 忘れてゆく 嘘でもねぇ 微笑むことは素敵 なことね 涙 だけが 素直に泣いている また 会えば 笑えるように 風が吹いて 街は今日も人波み溢れる 君の声が少し 離れてゆく 月が照らす 夜があける 太陽が 輝く そんなふうに 私 忘れてゆく 嘘でもねえ 微笑むことは素敵 なことね 涙 だけが 素直に泣いている また 会えば 笑えるように🍀
@texacodesu
こういうBoAが好きだった
あとR&BっぽいBoA
@sandrolie6024
Never bored for listening this music🤗
@user-ou4st5ge3d
so much love it!!