Nagi Yanagi

Nagi Yanagi (やなぎ なぎ), stylized as yanaginagi (やなぎなぎ), is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Osaka Prefecture who is signed to NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan.

After becoming interested with music in her childhood, she began singing and writing original songs.

Yanagi was born in Osaka Prefecture on May 31, 1987.

From an early age, she had become interested in music, playing with an electronic keyboard her neighbor originally intended to throw away.

She also sang to nursery rhymes, making up tunes as she saw fit.

When she was in junior high school, her brother bought computer programs used for producing music, which she decided to experiment on.

During her junior high school years, because of her belief that "her voice was mediocre", she decided to make music instead.

In 2006, she began uploading her music to Niconico and other websites, gaining the attention of the J-pop band Supercell, who featured Yanagi as the guest vocalist from 2009 to 2011.

Yanagi began posting cover versions of songs online in 2006, and started producing original dōjin music under the name CorLeonis.

She released four studio albums individually: EN (2006), Leonis (2007), Freirinite (2008), and Oort no Yume (オールトの夢) (2010).

Leonis was only released online via Yanagi's website.

In May 2006, she formed the music duo Binaria with female singer Annabel.

Between 2007 and 2011, Binaria released two mini-albums (Alhaja (2007) and Forma (2007)), one best of album (Sonido (2010)), and four singles ("Epoca" (2008), "Alba" (2009), "Delightful Doomsday" (2010), and "Nachtflug" (2011)).

Binaria also collaborated with the singer Cassini for the single "Rueda" (2007).

In January 2007, Yanagi formed the musical unit Inochi Kokonotsu with composer KTG (an acronym of Ken The Garage), and the group put out a single album, Tortoiseshell (トーティシェル), on April 29, 2007 before disbanding in June 2007.

As early as 2007, Yanagi began submitting cover versions of songs to the Nico Nico Douga video sharing website under the name Gazelle.

Roughly the next day after Supercell's songwriter Ryo uploaded the music group's first song "Melt" in December 2007, Yanagi uploaded a cover of her singing the song.

Yanagi, who was herself a fan of Ryo's music, contacted him and the two talked about someday collaborating.

Ryo, who had been a fan of Yanagi's voice even before uploading his own songs to Nico Nico Douga, approached her to sing the vocals for Supercell's debut single "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" (2009).

Two more releases followed in 2011: the single "Hyōka no Kuni" (氷下の国) and the best of album Ame no Umi (雨の海).

Yanagi continued as the vocalist of Supercell until 2011, and in that time provided vocals for two more singles in 2010—"Sayonara Memories" and "Utakata Hanabi / Hoshi ga Matataku Konna Yoru ni"—and Supercell's second studio album Today Is A Beautiful Day (2011).

Later in 2011, Yanagi sang two songs on the original soundtrack for Key's visual novel Rewrite.

A single from the album, "Killer Song", was released at Comiket 81 on December 29, 2011.

Yanagi made her solo debut in February 2012 with the release of the single "Vidro Moyō", which is used as the ending theme to the anime Waiting in the Summer.

Her music has been featured in anime series such as My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected, Jormungand, Seraph of the End, and Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea.

She has also performed at overseas events in Southeast Asia, China, and Europe.

In 2012, Yanagi collaborated with composer Jun Maeda of Key to produce the original concept album Owari no Hoshi no Love Song, which finished 6th on the Oricon charts, marking her first album to chart.

Yanagi collaborated with Jun Maeda of Key to produce the original concept album Owari no Hoshi no Love Song released on April 25, 2012.

Yanagi made her solo debut signed to Geneon with the single "Vidro Moyō" (ビードロ模様) released on February 29, 2012.

"Vidro Moyō" is used as the ending theme to the 2012 anime series Waiting in the Summer.

Yanagi's second single "Ambivalentidea" was released on June 6, 2012; the title track is used as the ending theme to the 2012 anime series Jormungand.

Her third single "Laterality" (ラテラリティ) was released on November 7, 2012; the title track is used as the ending theme to Jormungand's second season Jormungand: Perfect Order.

Yanagi released her fourth single "Zoetrope" on January 30, 2013; the title track is used as the opening theme to the 2013 anime series Amnesia.

Yanagi released her fifth single "Yukitoki" (ユキトキ) on April 17, 2013; the song is used as the opening theme to the 2013 anime series My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected.

Yanagi's solo debut album Euaru (エウアル) was released on July 3, 2013.

Yanagi released her sixth single "Aqua Terrarium" (アクアテラリウム) on November 20, 2013; the song is used as the first ending theme to the 2013 anime series Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea.

Yanagi has written the song for 2014's Kamigami no Asobi.

Her seventh single "Mitsuba no Musubime" (三つ葉の結びめ) was released on February 19, 2014; the song is used as the second ending theme to Nagi-Asu.

Aside from singing and songwriting, Yanagi served as the music producer of the 2017 anime series Just Because!.

She announced her marriage on her official blog on August 5, 2019.