Rayli (玲里) is a Japanese singer and songwriter
Her powerful voice, various genres of music, and unique and soulful lyrics attracts people of all ages and so many musicians. She also accompanies herself on instruments: mainly piano and guitar and occasionally bass and percussion.

Rayli comes from a musical family, and she grew up listening to all kinds of music and cool analog synthesizers. Influenced by her parents, she is particularly interested in the the 60’s & 70’s British Music and Progressive Rock. David Bowie was the first love.

She started writing songs at the very early stage of her life; at the age of five, she was already writing gloomy songs in minor.

In 2011, her debut album “KISS AND FLY” was released. It won “The 4th CD Shop Awards (2012)” for the best album in Kanto region, “Kanto Block Award”.

Her works were used for the stage dram a(theatre company caramelbox), TV animation (Tokyo MX “Ishida & Asakura”: included in 2nd Album “NEVER LET ME GO”), Movies (“Mango and The Red Wheelchair”2015／”Detective Conan:The Eleventh Striker”2012 -as a singer) and TV program (YTV “Cune!”).

Her 3rd album, which was self-produced for the first time, “OPEN WORLD” released on May 11th 2016. On September 19th 2018, her new album “Emotional Armor” (all self-produced) was published. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.