Shima-uta (シマウタ, しまうた, 島歌, 島唄) is a genre of songs originating from the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan. It became known nationwide...

"Shima Uta" (島唄, lit. "Island Song") is a 1992 song by the Japanese band The Boom. It was written by the lead singer, Kazufumi Miyazawa, based on his...

Boom participated in Kōhaku Uta Gassen, an exclusive show usually reserved for elite musicians. After they released "Shima-uta," the group went on to perform...

January 5, 1979) is a Japanese singer from Amami Ōshima. She sings in the shima-uta style particular to that region, with distinctive falsetto effects. Chitose...

songs in Amami are called shima uta. Although shima means "island" in Japanese, it means "community" in Amami. Thus shima uta literally means "communities'...

Miyako's āgu is famous for heroic epics. Lyric songs include Amami's shima-uta, Okinawa's ryūka, and Miyako's tōgani, which all have short, fixed verse...

of this genre. Okinawa's (new) folk songs are sometimes referred to as shima-uta. The term is not native to Okinawa but was borrowed from its northern...

album Begin no Shima Uta (Omato-take O) and a regular studio album, Begin. Two versions backed with sanshin appear on Begin no Shima Uta (Omato-take O)...

Setouchi, Kagoshima) which are famous for spawning popular singers of shima-uta, Amami's traditional music genre. Her father influenced her early music...

collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto. They hold a resident gig at the Live House Shima-Uta club in Naha, Okinawa. Nēnēs also sang in the title track of Talvin Singh's...

known outside of his country in 2002 when he recorded a Japanese song, Shima Uta, entirely in Japanese. It was the first single from his album, Casaerius...

21 April 1945) is a Japanese musician active in the Okinawan music and shima-uta scene, as a performer on the sanshin, min'yō folk singer, song-writer...

Our Eyes" – released on the original soundtrack to Sleepover (2004) "Shima Uta" – released on the Japanese version of Before the Blackout (2005) "Walking...

Rough Guide To The Music Of Okinawa: Island Rhythms And Songs:Sanshin And Shima Uta, World Music Network, archived from the original on 2014-01-04, Tinsagu...

(城 南海, Kizuki Minami), born on 26 December 1989, is a Japanese pop and Shima-uta folk singer. She was born in Amami Ōshima, Kagoshima, Japan. In 2006,...

Okinawa Prefecture in 1967. The deigo flower features in the popular song "Shima Uta" by The Boom, one of the most well-known songs associated with Okinawa...

known as shima-uta has gained recent popularity in mainland Japan as a result of its usage by contemporary singers. Besides eisa and shima-uta, there are...

lyrics and music for The Boom, who are best known for their 1993 hit song "Shima Uta". In 2006, he founded the band Ganga Zumba which includes Marcos Suzano...

track, sung in Japanese, is a cover version of a 1993 The Boom song. "Shima Uta" (Kazufumi Miyazawa (宮沢和史, Miyazawa Kazufumi)) – 3:06 Kyle Lewis - guitar...

Flowers) [2008.10.01] Kizuna Uta (絆歌; Bond Songs) [2005.09.07] Materia (マテリヤ) (Indies) [2006.10.11] Natsukasha no Shima (なつかしゃのシマ; The Island I Miss)...

covered by Hi-STANDARD) "Ai Senshi" (哀 戦士, originally by Daisuke Inoue) "Shima Uta" (島唄, originally by THE BOOM) "Thrill" (スリル, Suriru, originally by Tomoyasu...

adapting scales from Ryukyuan music and experimenting with sounds from shima-uta and Bulgarian folk music, particularly the style of the Bulgarian Voices...

organizations and long apprenticeships are common. Umui, religious songs, shima uta, dance songs, and, especially kachāshī, lively celebratory music, were...

Moriyama. Begin has had at least one song appear on the NHK program Minna no Uta. They are also the performers of the "Ichariba Ohana" and "Izayoi Yoi", the...

of traditional music updated for pop audiences and sung in Mandarin. Shima-uta – folk songs from the Amami Islands, Japan. Shock rock Shoegaze – a style...

its northern neighbor Amami, where the songs in this form are known as shima-uta and are considered a separate genre. Okinawa's southern neighbors, Miyako...

picture called Leaving on the 15th Spring (旅立ちの島唄 - 十五の春, Tabidachi no shima uta - jūgo no haru) was released. Themes include the relationship between...

middle school after hearing her older sister's cassette tape of the song "Shima Uta" by rock band The Boom. The following year, in 1993, Nakashima attended...

Kokoro no Uta (ココロノウタ, Songs of the Heart) is Rimi Natsukawa's sixth original album, released on March 18, 2009 (2009-03-18). The album was a 2-CD set...

Shima Iwashita (岩下志麻, Iwashita Shima, born 3 January 1941) is a Japanese stage and film actress who has appeared in films of Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita...