Donna Burke

Biography Burke graduated from Edith Cowan University. Her education included "operatic voice, speech and drama" and she received classical voice training for ten years.

From 1989 to 1995, Burke taught Media, English and Religious Education to senior students at Chisholm Catholic College. She moved to Japan in 1996 and initially worked as a teacher of English before obtaining some recording work.

Burke married Bill Benfield, a British former teacher. In 2004, Burke and Benfield started a record label, Dagmusic, which catered for foreign artists. Burke released her debut album, Lost and Found, through Dagmusic.

Burke has worked as a freelance announcer at NHK since 1999. She is also the lyricist for numerous Japanese TV commercials, anime songs and J-pop group tunes.

Burke created Hotteeze in 2004, a company she created to export Japanese heat pads worldwide.

Voice work Burke's voice has been used in Japan since 2005 for announcements on the Tokaido, Sanyo, and Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train system. Her voice is also used in Narita Airport Delta lounges and in English language guidance for the Emperor Showa Memorial Museum.

In 2007, Burke narrated a documentary titled Climate in Crisis - Part 1, which won the 2007 silver medal for Environment/Ecology at the New York Television Festival and the 2007 Earth Vision Award at the Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival.

Filmography

Anime Year Title Role Notes Strange Dawn Yuko Miyabe Voices of a Distant Star Operator of the Lysithea Little Charo 2 Kanon –2017 Fastening Days Anna, Kelly (ep. 2) Princess Sesame Queen Shenmue II Additional Voices PC, PS4, Xbox, Xbox One versions Silent Hill 3 Claudia Wolf Original release only Dino Crisis 3 Sonya Hart Motion capture F-Zero GX Mrs. Arrow Let's Go Jungle!: Lost on the Island of Spice Norah Diabolical Pitch Christina Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes iDROID Let It Die Various Fitness Boxing Laura Homestar VR Special Edition Narrator Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Remastered Edition Narrator Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm and Exercise Laura Evotinction Annabel

Solo discography Lost and Found (with Bill Benfield) (2000)

Other discography The Yamaha Educational Children's Songs CDs - Various Artists (1997–2003 - vocals for several tracks) Automne - Various Artists (1998 - vocals for "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet," vocals and lyrics for other tracks) Para Para Panic CDs - Volumes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 / Various Artists (2000 - vocals for several tracks) Elebits - "The Smile of You" (2006 - in collaboration with Naoyuki Satō) ABBA Ibiza Caliente Mix - ABBA, Sabu (2001 - vocals for several tracks) The Bleep Brothers (2001 - vocals for three tracks) Tokyo Ghoul √A - "Glassy Sky" Implosion - Never Lose Hope - "Way in the Dark" Girls' Frontline - "A Moment of My Nightmare" Evotinction - "A Normal Life"

Lyricist Final Fantasy 15 XP - "Choosing Hope" (2017) Implosion - "Way in the Dark" (2015) Resident Evil - "At the End of a Long Escape" (2013) Square Enix DISSIDIA012 - "Final Fantasy" (2011) The Last Ranker - "Born to Survive" (2010) Bandai Games - "God Eater" (2010) NHK Little Charo 2 - "Sayonara" (2010) Capcom - "Bio Hazard Dark Side Chronicles" (Sleeping Beauty) (2009) Capcom - "Last Ranker" (2009) Bandai Namco Games God Eater - "God and Man" (2009) Square Enix Last Remnant - "Journey’s End" (2008) Square Enix Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - "Moonless Starry Night", "Morning Sky" (2003) Haibanae Renmei - "Wondering" (2007) Konami Elebits - "The Smile Of You" (2006) Konami - "Star Gate Heaven" (2004)