Anri

, better known as , is a Japanese pop singer from Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture. In a career spanning more than 40 years, she achieved commercial success and popularity in the city pop music scene during the 1980s.

Career Anri's debut release was 1978's "Oribia o Kikinagara" ("While Listening to Olivia"), written by Amii Ozaki.

She achieved commercial success and popularity with her signature classic 1983 release, Timely!!, which spawned the hits "Cat's Eye" and "Kanashimi ga Tomaranai" ("I Can't Stop the Loneliness"). "Cat's Eye" was used as the first opening theme of the eponymous 1983 anime series of the same name It was one of the first J-pop songs used for an anime theme song. In 2017, she performed the song live at the opening of the touring ice show Fantasy on Ice amongst others. She appeared at the Red and White New Year's Music Special at the end of that same year, performing "Cat's Eye".

Other hit songs include: "Summer Candles" and "Dolphin Ring", both of which became standard songs played at Japanese weddings and receptions. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Anri's albums were bestsellers. She has had highly successful tours—one with an attendance of almost 100,000—and toured Hawaii for the first time in 1987. She sang Furusato, a folklore song, during the 1998 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies .

With the renewed popularity of city pop, and her songs having been sampled by many new artists of the vaporwave and future funk genres, Anri has enjoyed new success and popularity outside of Japan.

Personal life

Discography

Studio albums + List of albums, with selected chart positions Title Details Peak positionsJPNOricon Released: 1978 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 51 Feelin''' Released: 1979 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 71

Released: 1981 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming

Released: 1982 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 89

Released: 1983 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 27

Released: 1983 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 1

Released: 1984 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 5

Released: 1985 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 5

Released: 1986 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 6

Released: 1986 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 9

Released: 1987 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 4

Released: 1988 Label: For Life Formats: CD, LP, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 2

Released: 1990 Label: For Life Formats: CD, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 1

Released: 1990 Label: For Life Formats: CD, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 1

Released: 1991 Label: For Life Formats: CD, Cassette tape, digital download, streaming 2

Released: 1992 Label: For Life Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 3

Released: 1996 Label: For Life Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 4

Released: 1997 Label: For Life Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 9

Released: 1998 Label: For Life Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 5

Released: 1999 Label: For Life Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 24

Released: 2000 Label: For Life Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 20

Released: 2001 Label: Dolphin Hearts Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 48

Released: 2005 Label: Nippon Columbia Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 192

Released: 2015 Label: IVY Records Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 52

Label: IVY Records Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 38

Cover albums + List of albums, with selected chart positions Title Details Peak positionsJPNOricon "Wasurerarenai Okurimono" Warner Music Japan2024"Marine Blue Memories" with Tatsuya Ishii - Warner Music Japan

Videography Live albums Year Title Details 1984 ANRI in Concert Released: 1984Formats: Laserdisc VHS 1987 Anri: Live in Budokan Formats: Laserdisc VHS 1988 Anri: Hiroshima Peace Concert Formats: Laserdisc VHS 1989 Anri: Concert in Hawaii Formats: VHS