Rikki (Japanese singer)

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Rikki りっき
Birth name	中野 律紀 (Nakano Ritsuki)
Born	Amami Ōshima, Japan
Years active	1990s–present
Website	office-rikki.com

Ritsuki Nakano (中野 律紀, Nakano Ritsuki), professionally known as Rikki (りっき), is a Japanese

.

Born in

region of Japan. Shortly thereafter, she produced her debut album, Kaze no Koe.

In 1998, Rikki was chosen to participate at the opening ceremony of the 1998

, Japan, to sing the Paralympics theme song "Tabidachi no Toki".

Rikki sang the Final Fantasy X main theme, "Suteki da ne", released as a single on July 18, 2001. The single also included an instrumental version of "Suteki Da Ne", "Pure Heart" (a vocal arrangement of Aeris' Theme from Final Fantasy VII), and a new song entitled "Tsukisama" (which means 'The Moon').^[1]

In 2001, she produced a picture album alongside Joe Hisaishi for the motion picture Spirited Away (directed by Hayao Miyazaki).

In 2006, Rikki joined the band Sound Horizon for the release of 5th Story CD: Roman. She was involved in Sound Horizon's releases until 2008, when she gave birth to twins and returned to Amami Ōshima, as she said in her blog. She returned to Sound Horizon in 2009 for their Triumph III live tour. She also returned to Sound Horizon in 2015 for the album 9th Story Nein.

Discography

Albums

• Mucha Kana (21 May 1993) – re-released on 21 August 2002
• Kaze no Koe (16 December 1993)
• Taiyō no Shita de (24 August 1994)
• Rikki (16 December 1995)
• Miss You Amami (15 November 1998) – re-released in the UK on 15 June 2004
• Kanaria (3 October 2001)
• Mitsu (21 August 2002)
• Shimauta TRICKLES (25 September 2002)
• Musunu Shima He (19 January 2005)

Singles

• "Manten no Sora" (1 December 1993)
• "Tsubasa o Hiroge" (1 May 1994)
• "
  Suteki da ne" – featured in Final Fantasy X (18 July 2001), re-released by Square Enix
  on 22 July 2004
• "Karatachi Nomichi/Toki" (19 March 2003)

References

External links

• Rikki Official Website
• Ritsuki Nakano discography at MusicBrainz
• RIKKI discography at MusicBrainz
• Another biography about Ritsuki Nakano