Kanon Wakeshima

20 years old
a cello vocalist

Kanon started playing the cello at the age of 3.
She began to take the full-scale guidance since the early age.
When she was a junior high school student, she formed a cello duo and an ensemble group. At the age of 15, she started playing the baroque cello as part classical ensembles. She appeared in many recitals and joint concerts since the early age.
She began music creation at the end of the junior high school times, and when she was 16 years old, she sang as a vocalist for the first time on a stage of the senior high school festival. She was belonging to the light music club in the days of a senior high school.
As a multi-talented artist, Kanon joined the Sony Music Audition as a singer. She was one of the finalists and she made a contract with DefSTAR RECORDS.
28th May, she will make her major debut.

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• a performance musical instrument : cello
• the opportunity when she began music : the recommendation of cello from her parents
• the music that she played for the first time : twinkle, twinkle, little star variations
• memorable song : haydn cello concerto
• favourite cell player : Jacqueline du Pré
• favourite musician : Emilie Simon, lily-chou-chou, Mayumi Kojima
• a favorite composer : Debussy, Satie
• a favourite painter : Alfons Maria Mucha
• a favourite colour : red (mostly)
• a favourite novelist : Mayumi Nagano, Hiroko Taniyama
• a hobby / a special ability : drawing a picture

～The Debut Story of Kanon Wakeshima × Mana～

To sing, to play the cello, to collect cute things, to draw. Not to forget fabulous clothes and sweets. That is the nineteen year old that stands before us. Her name is Kanon Wakeshima.

“My parents had made up their minds before I was even born that I was to take up music because they’re such great fans of music. The even gave me a musical name. Kanon, is actually taken from canon (and also written as ‘sound of flowers’ in Japanese).”