Yuna Itou"Endless Story"
If you haven't changed your mind
Soba ni ite hoshii yo tonight
Tsuyogaru koto ni tsukareta no
Osanasugita no
Every time I think about you baby
Ima nara ieru I miss you
It's so hard to say I'm sorry
Chorus
Tatoeba dareka no tame ja naku
Anata no tame ni utaitai kono uta wo
Owaranai story tsuzuku kono kagayaki ni
Always tsutaetai zutto eien ni
Memories of our time together
Kesanaide kono mama don't go away
Atatakaku toke dashite tashikameru no
Yasashisa no shizuku kono mune ni hirogatteku
Setsunai hodo ni I'm missin' you
Kasaneta te hanasanaide
Tatoeba kanau nara mou ichido
Anata no tame ni utaitai kono uta wo
Owaranai story taema nai itoshisa de
Tell me why oshiete yo zutto eien ni
Chorus
Yuna Ito (伊藤 由奈, Itō Yuna, born September 20, 1983, in Los Angeles) is a J-pop singer active in Japan. Born to a Japanese father and Korean American mother, she is a native-born citizen of the United States and was brought up in Hawaii. She is signed onto Sony Music Japan. She rose to fame in the movie adaptation of the manga Nana, playing Reira, and singing its primary theme song Endless Story.
Ito was born to a Japanese father and a Korean American mother in Los Angeles, California. Three months later, she and her family moved to Hawaii, United States, where she remained until the start of her singing career in Japan. She has one sibling, a younger brother named John. She graduated from McKinley High School in 2001. When Ito was little, she used to sing to songs of both Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson and dreamt of becoming a singer. She has participated in Cho PD's song "(When I Need To) Somebody" in 2004 before she debuted in Japan. She sings in Korean and English in this song.
In early 2005, Ito auditioned and was chosen for the role of charismatic vocalist Reira Serizawa in the feature film adaptation of Ai Yazawa's manga series Nana. She also subsequently performed a theme song to the movie, "Endless Story", while debuting under the billing "Reira starring Yuna Ito" and reaching no. 2 on Oricon's Japanese single rankings. As the singer and the actress picked to play Reira Serizawa, Ito's identity was kept a secret until the movie's release.
When Nana the movie was finally released in Japan, movie-goers were drawn to the "wonderful, high-pitched", voice of Ito[citation needed]. Ito was featured on magazine covers, posters and eventually had her first TV appearance on TV Asahi's Music Station music television program, performing "Endless Story".
It was only in 2006 that her second single, Faith / Pureyes, was put on the market, with "Faith" featured as the ending theme to the television drama, Unfair, and "Pureyes" being a song for the Bioclen Zero contact lens television commercial. This single sold about 50,000 copies which was a disappointment considering "Endless Story" had outsold Mika Nakashima's "Glamorous Sky" with over 450,000 copies.
Yuna's third single was perhaps her biggest hit after the Nana-era.[citation needed] Precious was announced as the theme song for the 2006 movie, "Limit of Love: Umizaru". The single included two b-sides, "I'm Free" and "Secrets", both co-written by Ito herself. Precious sold over 200,000 copies and was the 5th highest downloaded song at the end of year 2006 in Japan. In the 2007 Japanese MTV Music Awards, Yuna won the Best Beat of Asia (Japan) for Precious.
Sony later announced a 2-month Single Project. She covered "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'", for the Daihatsu "Coo" commercial, featured on her 4th single "Stuck on You". She also performed the ending theme song to AXN Japan's Japanese television broadcast of the American television series Lost with her 5th single losin'.
On August 4, 2006, film production company Toho announced that Ito would reprise her role of Reira Serizawa in Nana 2, with a second single for Reira starring Yuna Ito scheduled for December 6 and Nana 2 opening on December 9, 2006. Truth was released as Ito's last single in 2006 and 6th in total[citation needed]. Previews for the song were put on the net on November 8, 3 weeks after it first aired on Japanese radio.
In December, Ito was shooting Nana 2 and promoted the film alongside her co-stars. Toho stated that this time, the role of Reira would have a more relevant part, however, Ito again only had few appearances.
Sony Music released Yuna's first album, Heart, a CD+DVD compilation, on January 24, 2007. The album debuted at the #1 spot on the Oricon Daily Album chart, after which the album also grabbed #1 on the Oricon Weekly Album chart and United World Weekly Album Chart[citation needed]. The official early sales for Heart were 224,000 copies sold, leaving a gap of 116,000 copies between the first and second place. Heart was considered a great success as it managed to stay on the Oricon Weekly Charts in the top 3 for 4 consecutive weeks.
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