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generasia:Featured article for 2009 week 37

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Sugawara Sayuri

Sugawara Sayuri (菅原紗由理) is a Japanese pop singer signed to For Life Music Entertainment. In January 2008, she participated to "7DAYS Audition" and "30DAYS Audition". With her transparent voice, she won both auditions and got a contract with For Life Music Entertainment. In December 2008, Sugawara released her first song digitally through Chaku-Uta, "Destiny" is sampled from Franz Liszt's classical masterpiece Liebesträume and featured rapper FEROS. In April 2009, she made her major debut with the mini-album, "Kimi ni Okuru Uta".

Following the digital success of her song, "Kimi ni Okuru Uta", Sugawari will release her debut single "Ano Hi no Yakusoku" on September 30, 2009. On September 3, 2009, at Final Fantasy XIII premier, it was announced that she will perform its theme song, "Kimi ga Iru Kara". The song is composed by Hamauzu Masashi and Sugawara also performed its orchestra version the premier. A single for "Kimi ga Iru Kara" is scheduled to be released on December 2, two weeks before the release date of Final Fantasy XIII.