Mai Fujisawa

Mai Fujisawa born 1980, known professionally as Mai, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and lyricist. She has released three studio albums and has performed for the soundtracks of several media.
Mai has collaborated on many occasions with her father, Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi, for the soundtracks he wrote for Hayao Miyazaki while working at Studio Ghibli. Mai was featured on the image album for Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, the vocal album for Kiki's Delivery Service, and the soundtrack of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film). She has also performed on the soundtracks of other media, including the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and the video game Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.
Mai Fujisawa was born in 1980 in Tokyo. Mai's first recorded musical performance was in 1984 with "Nausicaä's Requiem" from the soundtrack of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film), when she was four years old. This was a collaboration with her father, Joe Hisaishi, as were her performances of "My Heart" and "The Town Where I Long to Stay" from the vocal album of 1989's Kiki's Delivery Service. In 2008, she collaborated with her father once again to perform "Rondo of the House of Sunflowers" on the Image song album for Ponyo. In 2009, she performed "Stand Alone" on the soundtrack of Saka no Ue no Kumo (TV series) in collaboration with her father. For the soundtrack of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011, Mai performed "Lily's Theme," composed by Alexandre Desplat. She collaborated once more with her father in 2011 on the soundtrack of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, performing "Pieces of a Broken Heart". Following this, Mai became a guest singer on the United Nations Singers' Japan tour of 2012; she joined them once again in 2015 for the Seventieth anniversary of the United Nations seventieth anniversary celebrations. In 2016, she worked on the lyrics and vocals for the music of Paper Lanterns, a documentary of the aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 2019, Mai joined her father in Melbourne to perform many of her works and well as other Studio Ghibli classics on stage for the Melody of Japan tour. 
Additionally, Mai is the goodwill ambassador of Nakano, Nagano. She has composed and performed theme songs for Nakano and Tochigi (city). She is also credited with writing the lyrics for the school song of Sakata Daiichi Junior High in Sakata, Yamagata.
==== Studio albums ====
Title 	Released as 	Details
Mai (麻衣) 	Mai 	
* Release date: December 15, 2010
* Label: Victor
* Format: Compact disc
Nursury Rhyme Songs (童謡うたう) 	Utaumai (うたうまい) 	
* Release date: May 22, 2013
* Label: Victor
* Format: Digital streaming, compact disc
Raise the Sky (空みあげて) 	Mai 	
* Release date: April 8, 2015
* Label: Wonder Land Records
* Format: Compact disc
==== Singles ====
Title 	Details
Restart 	
* Release date: March 28, 2020
* Format: Digital streaming
Days 	
* Release date: March 28, 2020
* Format: Digital streaming
Cocoa, You And My Promise	
* Release date: August 6, 2020
* Format: Digital streaming
Song title 	Title of media 	Other collaborators 	Details
"Theme Song" 	Paper Lanterns 	Chad Cannon, Kojiro Umezaki 	
* Release date: 2016
"Pieces of a Broken Heart" (心のかけら, Kokoro no Kakera) 	Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch 	Joe Hisaishi 	
* Uncredited
* Release date: November 17, 2011
"Lily's Theme" 	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Alexandre Desplat 	
* Uncredited
* Release date: July 4, 2011
"Stand Alone" 	Saka no Ue no Kumo (TV series) 	Joe Hisaishi 	
* Uncredited
* Release date: December 18, 2009
"Rondo of the House of Sunflowers" 	Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (image album) 	Joe Hisaishi 	
* Release date: March 5, 2008
"The Town Where I Long to Stay" 	Kiki's Delivery Service (vocal album) 	Joe Hisaishi, Yumiko-chan 	
* Release date: 1989
"My Heart" 	Kiki's Delivery Service (vocal album) 	Joe Hisaishi, Azumi Inoue, Yumiko-chan	
* Release date: 1989
"Nausicaä's Requiem" 	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film) 	Joe Hisaishi 	
* Uncredited
* Release date: 1984
Category:1980 births
Category:Japanese singers
Category:Japanese songwriters
Category:Japanese lyricists