Sanae Shintani
Sanae Shintani
Artist Information
- Name: Sanae Shintani (新谷早苗)
- Birthday: December 21st
- Birthplace: Kobe, Japan
- Official website: http://www.i-revo.jp/artist/sana/index.html
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/sana_shintani
Profile
Sanae Shintani is one of BEMANI's first in-house female vocalists, with her work dating back to the very first CS BEMANI game with beatmania YebisuMIX. She initially worked as a receptionist at KONAMI. Since then she's performed in a large number of songs in BEMANI, especially in pop'n music. Staple pop'n music playable character SANAE♥chan is named after her, often serving as her character in the songs she sings.
Sanae left KONAMI in 2012 and joined Tablier Communications Inc.. Since then, she released a mini-album, OLニ〜ニョ, and then appeared in the commercial CD Game Music Prayer. She then released a new EP, MOVING ON, in 2016. She has also occassionally appeared in albums on the Diverse System music label, and even has an upcoming album called Delight.37 - Sana 20th Anniversary solo Album planned for release under the label in summer 2019, her full first album since her departure from KONAMI.
Despite her departure, Sana still participates as a commissioned vocalist in KONAMI's Magical Halloween (マジカルハロウィン) series.
Trivia
- Sanae Shintani has sung songs in 21 main arcade pop'n music games, more than any other vocalist in the series.
- Sanae provided voices for pop'n対戦ぱずるだまONLINE.
- Sanae also provided the vocals for the Akira Yamaoka song あなたに注ぐまで, which appears on the KONAMI album COMPOSERS.
- Sanae is the vocalist of Believe the Rainbow, the epilogue song of the SEGA's rhythm game maimai FiNALE, which marks her first contribution to a rhythm game outside of BEMANI.
- This is likely a nod to her beatmania THE FINAL song fellows, as the maimai series was succeeded by the maimai でらっくす series.
Aliases
- Sana
- apresmidi (vocalist, with Hiroshi Takeyasu)
- The Ebisu Singers (with Hiroyuki Togo)
- プチさな
- 新谷あきら (member of, with Akira Yamaoka)
- KISS SUMMER SISTERS (with Manami Fujino and Kiyomi Kumano)
- さな
- 雪村千里
BEMANI Songs
Discography
Albums
- Sana-mode (2001)
- Sanative (2002)
- Sana-mode II ~pop'n music & beatmania moments~ (2003)
- 蜜月 ~honey moon~ (2005)
- ボクをさがしに (2010)
- Miracle☆Sparkle (2011)
- Delight.37 - Sana 20th Anniversary solo Album (2019)
EP
- Avril (2006)
- OLニ〜ニョ (2012)
- MOVING ON (2016)
Singles
- 僕のトナリ (2004)
- Brownie / Make Slow (2004)
- チェリ・ガール (2005)
Compilation Albums
- pop'n music Artist Collection 新谷さなえ (2002)
- Sana-molle Collection (2008)
- Sana Coffret (2012)
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