Aimer Concerts Setlist

Aimer (In Japanese: エメ), hailing from Kumamoto, Japan, debuted in 2011 and achieved her first number-one hit in 2021 with "Zankyōsanka," which also became her first song to appear on the Billboard Global 200 chart. Aimer lost her voice at 15 from singing too much. But sometimes what seems like a setback becomes a signature - that period of silence therapy gave Aimer her distinctive husky voice that would captivate millions. Before she was Aimer (French for "love"), she was just a kid studying piano, falling in love with Japanese icons like Ringo Sheena (椎名林檎) and Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル). Then Avril Lavigne came along and suddenly she had to pick up a guitar too. Talk about a musical melting pot!

Her big break came in 2011, but not in the usual way - she dropped a cover album that shot to number 2 on iTunes' jazz charts. Then anime came calling, and that's where things really took off. "Rokutousei no Yoru" for "No. 6" was just the beginning. She even got clever with it, creating "Re: I Am" as an anagram of her name (how's that for wordplay?). For years, she was the mystery voice behind some of anime's biggest hits, keeping her face hidden until 2016 when she finally appeared on "Music Station."

That same year, she dropped "Daydream," teaming up with rock royalty like Taka from ONE OK ROCK and Yojiro Noda from Radwimps. More recently, she has been working on all kinds of projects, for example, if there's a hot anime series like Demon Slayer, you might bet that Aimer is in there, while at the same time, also releasing successful albums like the simultaneous "Sun Dance" and "Penny Rain" in 2019.