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Youmi Kimura (木村 弓, Kimura Yumi) is a Japanese singer and lyre performer. She was born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and became famous in 2001 for her song "Itsumo nando demo" (いつも何度でも, "Always With Me"), which served as the closing theme to the popular 2001 anime film Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki.

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Youmi Kimura 木村 弓
Also known as	Kimura Yumi
Origin	Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Genres	J-pop
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instruments	Vocals, lyre
Years active	1988–present
Website	youmi-kimura.com

Kimura and Miyazaki had great admiration for each other's works^{[citation needed]}. She was so moved by his 1997 film Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫, Mononoke hime), that she wrote a letter to him, enclosed with a copy of her album. Miyazaki wrote her back and mentioned to her about a film he was currently working on called Rin the Chimney Cleaner (煙突描きのリン Entotsu-kaki no Rin). Hoping Miyazaki would use her material on this film, Kimura, with her lyricist Wakako Kaku (覚 和歌子), wrote a new song called "Itsumo nando demo" (いつも何度でも, "Always With Me"). Miyazaki did like the song, and intended to use it, but the Rin project was eventually scrapped.[1]

Later, Miyazaki started working on his next film Spirited Away, and listened to the song again. Throughout the entire production, he would listen to it obsessively.[1] He would later realize that Kimura's song about finding inner peace meshed perfectly with his coming of age story of a girl who finds her inner strength.

Kimura worked with Miyazaki on Howl's Moving Castle, writing a song for it. (ハウルの動く城, Sekai no yakusoku).

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External links

• Youmi Kimura at IMDb
• Youmi Kimura's official website (Japanese)

На других языках

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- [en] Youmi Kimura

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[es] Yumi Kimura

Yumi Kimura (木村 弓 Kimura Yumi) cantante y compositora japonesa, nació en Osaka, Japón. Saltó a la fama en el año 2001 por la canción "Siempre conmigo" (いつも何度でも Itsumo Nando Demo, Always with me en inglés), que fue el tema de cierre del popular anime El viaje de Chihiro (Sen to Chihiro en japonés o Spirited Away en inglés) de Hayao Miyazaki.

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