While studying at the music school she made money by busking at the railway station in her home town, which in interviews, she has said was a great education in performing and it confirmed her belief that music was what she wanted to do. The early influence of her was the band Bianco Nero from her home town of Fukuoka and it was this band that advised her to leave high school and attend a music school. She was encouraged by her mother to keep a journal of her feelings, and she converted many of the journal entries to poems and also songs and this was how she began to write songs. She had to work part time in High School to help pay for tuition. Yui did not have an easy life as she was from a single parent family and quite poor. I have not given all the words of the songs, I just wanted to give you an idea of the themes.īut first a little background. Yui is my favourite singer songwriter and I would like to share a small selection of her songs with you and to try to advocate her to you by explaining some of the lyrics and the context of the songs.
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