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Japan

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Pop music

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 songwriter and singer. Her real name is , was born in 1980 in Takayama, Gifu

Takayama, Gifu

is a city located in Gifu, Japan. As of July, 2011 the city has an estimated population of 92,369. The total area is .Takayama was settled as far back as the Jōmon period. Takayama is best known for its inhabitants' expertise in carpentry. It is believed carpenters from Takayama worked on the...

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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. The name Tamurapan is a combination of her surname: and the French word for rabbit: Lapin.

During the first years of elementary school she lived in Taiwan for some time, while she was still in elementary school she got her amateur radio

Amateur radio

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 license.

Discography

In 2002 Tamurapan started her music career doing mainly live shows. In 2007 with the advancement of Myspace in Japan, she started publishing her music on the site. Around the same time she got a limited release of the single:

She is the first Japanese singer-songwriter to make the move from Myspace

Myspace

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 to a major label company Columbia Music

Columbia Music Entertainment

is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as . It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks in 1931. The company changed its name to Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. in 1946. It used the Nippon Columbia name until...

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Limited Release Singles

	Release Date	Title	Japanese
1st	October 10, 2007	Semenaidei	責めないデイ
2nd	October 10, 2007	heiyō meiyō	ヘイヨーメイヨー
3rd	November 7, 2007	omaebutadana~okurametegami~	お前ぶただな～送らぬ手紙～
4th	November 7, 2007	A Million	アミリオン
5th	December 5, 2007	Kaitenmokuba	回転木馬
6th	December 5, 2007	rai・kua・bādo	ライ・クア・バード
7th	January 23, 2008	buttobasuzo	ぶっ飛ばすぞ
8th	February 20, 2008	hebun	へぶん
9th	March 19, 2008	Hollywood	ハリウッド
10th	May 13, 2009	ookimishōnennotēmu	オオカミ少年ケンのテーマ（Lotte「Fit's」CM Song）

Independent Album

	Release Date	Title	Japanese
1st	March, 2003	Tamurapan	たむらぱん

Mini Albums

	Release Date	Title	Japanese
1st	December 17, 2003	Alone at Play	ひとりあそび
2nd	January 12, 2005	Hitonoiruha	人のいろは
3rd	April 4, 2007	Harou	ハロウ

Albums

	Release Date	Title	Japanese
1st	April 23, 2008	butabesto	ブタベスト
2nd	June 3, 2009	nouniusoun	ノウニウノウン
3rd	December 15, 2010	nakunai	ナクナイ

Singles

	Release Date	Title	Japanese
1st	July 23, 2008	Harēshon	ハレーション
2nd	November 12, 2008	Zero	ゼロ
3rd	March 18, 2009	charinco / chodoii tokoni itai	ちゃりんこ / ちょうどいいとこにいたい
4th	February 2, 2010	bamboo / mountain	バンブー / マウンテン
5th	July 21, 2010	SOS	SOS
6th	October 20, 2010	rough	ラフ

External links

• http://www.myspace.com/tamurapan - Myspace website
• http://www.tamurapan.com/ - Official website
• http://columbia.jp/tamurapan/ - website on Columbia Music