Kanon Wakeshima is a Japanese singer/cellist, who was originally produced by musician/fashion designer Mana.
Speaking of Mana, I was actually friends with him on Vivaldi, before deleting my account several months ago. It sucks that the owners of Vivaldi, did not give additional features on their website. It lingered for 1/2 year much like Xanga 2.0, but that is another topic for another time.
Like I was saying, Kanon Wakeshima was originally produced by Mana. Kanon also collaborated with the Visual Kei J-Rock basist, Kanon from Antic Cafe (a.k.a. "An Cafe").
Kanon Wakeshima and An Cafe's Kanon are known together as "Kanon X Kanon."
The singer/cellist is popular for her 2 songs, which were featured as the ending theme songs to the Anime, Vampire Knight and Vampire Knight: Guilty (2008). Those 2 ending theme songs were "Still Doll" and "Suna No Oshiro" (Sand Castle).
In addition to Kanon's songs being used for the Vampire Knight franchise, I recently learned that she voiced a maid in Vampire Knight Season 1: Episode 8.
In 2008, Kanon was nominated in the 4th Annual Shojo Beat Music Awards for Best Newcomer Award.
The nominees are usually determined by surveying "record companies, music journalists, music experts, and music fans."
Throughout these last several years, I have noticed that Kanon Wakeshima's music is typically featured in Vampire Horror Anime such as Vampire Knight, Shiki, and Strike The Blood.
Although, her music has also been featured in the Seinen Anime, 30-sai no Hoken Taiiku (Health and Physical Education for 30-Year-Olds), To Love-Ru, and the Fate/Extra CCC game.
Besides Kanon Wakeshima's past accomplishments, I learned something very interesting about her today.
She gave all 4 of her cellos names.
Kanon's white cello is named "Mikazuki-san," which means "crescent moon" in Japanese.
She normally uses Mikazuki, during live performances. "Nanachie-san" meaning "wisdom" is Kanon Wakeshima's red cello. It's mostly seen in her music videos.
She claims that "Nanachie-san" is complicated to play yet she still manages to play it. Kanon's 3rd cello is "Yaeharu-san" ("multi-layered spring"). She has owned that brown cello, since middle school.
Kanon uses "Yaeharu-san," whenever she is practicing and recording albums.
Her last cello is her newest called "Momotose" ("100 years") and is silver with rhinestones on it.
"Momotose" can be seen on Kanon Wakeshima's 2nd album, Lolitawork Libretto.
I tried copying and pasting photos of Kanon Wakeshima's cellos, however I had no such luck. If you would like to see her cellos, the link is below.
In the meantime, here's a block of Kanon Wakeshima's music videos. The 4th song, happens to be my favorite.
1) Kanon Wakeshima "Still Doll" Vampire Knight (2008), Shinshoku Dolce (2009)
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