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北出菜奈

Nana Kitade (北出菜奈, born May 2, 1987 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She is particularly famous for dressing and designing Gothic Lolita fashion, something that many of her fans have in common with her. Many of her songs were used as anime, TV shows, doramas and movie opening/ending/image themes. As a child, Kitade wanted to be a singer. She started learning the piano at the age of three, and wrote her own lyrics at twelve. In junior high school, she became a fan of Ringo Shiina and learned to play the guitar, traveling frequently to Tokyo for singing lessons.

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coldrain

coldrain is a rock band from Nagoya, Japan formed in 2007. The band consists of five members, of which two are half American. In 2009, the song "8AM" was used as the ending for the anime series Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting! New Challenger. In 2010, the song "We're not alone" was used as the opening theme for the anime series RAINBOW: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin. Members
Vocals: Masato
Guitar: Y.K.C (Yokochi)
Guitar & Backup Vocals: Sugi (Kazuya)
Bass & Backup Vocals: RxYxO (Ryo)

POLYSICS

POLYSICS is a Japanese new wave/synth pop/punk/rock band, hailing from Tokyo. The band started in 1997, but got their big break in 1998 at a concert in Tokyo. They create high energy music, fusing conventional guitar music, with synthesized and computer generated sound to create a unique mixture of punk and electro-pop. Their song lyrics often consist of Japanese, English, or just plain gibberish. The band has been noted for their extremely energetic live performances and their wild gimmicky outfits.

Charm

There are at least 3 artists called Charm: 1) A Japanese powerviolence band.
Albums:
-split with U.G MAN
-Shikami
-Hito
-split with GALVANIZEHEAD 2) A Classic Goa Trance project of Tatsuo Endo and Takeichirou Kurosaki from Japan. 3) Charm is a Spanish pop duo.
Band members: Martha Mateo & Lydia Cuestas.
New single of spanish pop duo Charm:
Charm "shooting star" (2009) on iTunes. 4) Charm is Phillip Falcone, a DJ and rapper who had a minor hit in 1991 with 'Butt Naked'.

Manish

there are two artists who go under the name of Manish/MANISH 1) A DJ 2) A jpop duo
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1) Manish is a DJ of unknown age, gender or language. The only thing known for sure is that Manish made a remix of Senator Ted Stevens' rather uninformed speech about net neutrality. 2) MANISH was a Japanese pop duo comprised of vocalists Nishimoto Mari and Takahashi Misuzu. The act lasted from 1992-1998.

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Sana

There are at least three artists going by the name Sana: 1) A KONAMI-employed pop artist (新谷さなえ) sings for several games. Most are part of the bemani series, although her work in Zone of the Enders: Anubis is a notable exception. She sings primarily for the Pop’n Music series, and has released several CDs of her vocal tracks from the games. 2) SANA is the ex-guitarist of Japanese rock band Mask. He is currently an indies solo artist and released his first Maxi Single 「一人法師」 in 2006. As of late, he has been performing as part of a session band called TheJEAN.

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Colors

There are at least five bands who have recorded under the name Colors.
1) Now defunct Denver, Colorado based dissonant hardcore group that formed in June of 2008. In August of 2010, they recorded nine of the songs that they had written in the two years prior, eight of which were released as 'Palindromes'. After a lineup change that October, they briefly adopted a new moniker and began working on new material before permanently disbanding in March of 2011. On 3 April 2011 they performed for the last time, with their original lineup and name intact.

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Kanon x Kanon

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Sphere

There are seven bands with the same name:
1. Japanese J-Pop group "Sphere"
2. Norwegian Modern Metal band "Sphere"
3. Polish Death Metal band "Sphere"
4. An American Jazz Quartet "Sphere"
5. Czech Metalcore band "Sphere"
6. A female trip-hop singer
7. A Japanese shoegaze band 1. Sphere (スフィア) is a Japanese pop idol unit formed by four voice actresses affiliated with Music Ray'n. The group made their major debut in April 2009 under Lantis with the single "Future Stream" which was used as the opening theme for the anime Hatsukoi Limited.

Monster

There are at least 6 bands called Monster: 1) ska-soul-punk band from Sweden
2) heavy/hard/thrash metal band from Brazil
3) Los Angeles-based indie-rock
4) HC band Mönster from Germany.
5) band from British Columbia, Canada.
6) Korean pop boy's band group called 몬스터
7) Swedish chiptune artist called MONSTER 1) Monster a ska-soul-punk band from Sweden that split up in 2000. They released two albums: "Rockers Delight" (1997), "Gone Gone Gone/A Bash Dem" (1999) and some EPs.