1996–2015: Early life, Music Revolution, "Mikazuki" Sayuri, a native of
Shika Island in
Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, was born on June 7, 1996. Inspired by the idol boy band
Kanjani Eight, Sayuri took up guitar as a hobby and began composing music during her second year of middle school. Afterwards, she performed in the band Muu (as guitarist and vocalist) and the acoustic duo Longtal (under the name Asuka), and she did street performances and
live house appearances in places like Hiroshima, Osaka, and Nagoya. In 2012, Sayuri won the Grand Prix at the 5th finals, where she was their youngest contestant. She left school and moved to Tokyo the next year; Despite performing at live houses, she preferred performing on the more-open streets for a more diverse range of people; In March 2015, Sayuri held her first solo concert, "Yoake no Shitaku", at
Tsutaya O-East in Tokyo. On August 26, 2015, she released her first single "Mikazuki", making her major debut at 19; the song was also the ending theme for the
anime series
Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace.
2016–2017: "Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no Youna", "Parallel Line", Mikazuki no Koukai She sang "
Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no Youna", the ending theme of the
Erased anime; composed and written by
Yuki Kajiura, it was released as her second single on February 24, 2016. On April 23, 2016, she held a solo concert "Mikazuki no Koukai" at the Shibuya WWW; tickets were sold out only seconds after they went on sale. On December 7, 2016, she and
Yojiro Noda of
Radwimps collaborated for her fourth single "
Furaregai Girl". On March 1, 2017, Sayuri released her fifth single "
Parallel Line," which was featured as the ending song to both the anime and live-action adaptations of ''
Scum's Wish'', becoming her first
Japanese television drama ending song. On March 23, 2017, it was announced that she would release her first album
Mikazuki no Koukai on May 17. The day after her album was released, it reached first on
Oricon's Daily Album Chart, and it later ranked third on the weekly
Oricon Albums Chart. On August 23, the full-length music video for one of the album's songs, , was released. On May 19, 2017, she held her first street performance in over a year in Shinjuku, with approximately 2,000 fans in attendance. On November 24, 2017, Sayuri's solo concert at
Tokyo Dome City Hall became her largest up to this point.
2018–2021: "Tsuki to Hanataba", "Reimei", "Kōkai no Uta" Sayuri released her sixth single on February 28, 2018; the song was the ending theme of the anime
Fate/Extra Last Encore. She performed at Anisong World Matsuri at
Anime Expo on July 6, 2018, in
Los Angeles, California. She collaborated with
My First Story for the song , released on November 27, 2018; the song is used as the second opening theme of the anime series
Golden Kamuy. Sayuri was featured on
Hiroyuki Sawano's song "Me & Creed ", which was originally planned to be the theme song for the mobile game
Blue Exorcist: Damned Chord before being cancelled in 2020. Between August 2–4, 2019, Sayuri performed two concerts in
Mannheim during
AnimagiC convention which marked her first concerts in
Germany and her
European concert debut. Later that month, on August 25 it was announced that she will perform the ending theme song for the anime
My Hero Academia season 4 with her song ; it was released as a single on November 27, 2019.
Milan Records released an eponymous "World Edition" EP on digital platforms on November 29, serving as Sayuri's international debut. On May 22, 2020, her new song "Aoibashi", the theme song for the anime
Sing "Yesterday" for Me, was released digitally; it was named after the former
Keiō Line station. Sayuri released the ''
album Me
on June 3, 2020, consisting of acoustic renditions of her previous songs; she later embarked on the 12-show Nejikoboreta Bokura no "Me" tour in 2022 to promote the album. On August 1, 2020, she released another digital single "Summer Bug". On October 24, 2020, Sayuri announced that she would be signing with iTony Entertainment. She released the song "Kamisama" on March 5, 2021; it was used as the opening theme for the drama series . On September 8, 2021, she released the song , which served as the second ending theme of the anime series Edens Zero''.
2022–2024: "Hana no Tō", marriage, and death On July 3, 2022, , the ending theme to the anime series
Lycoris Recoil, was released the day after the series premiere. In October 2023, Sayuri was featured on the song by BAK. On March 18, 2024, she announced that she had been married to Amaarashi, one half of the J-pop duo . On July 25, 2024, she announced that she would take a hiatus from singing to recover from
functional dysphonia. On September 27, 2024, Amaarashi released a statement announcing that Sayuri had died on September 20 at age 28. A private funeral was held by her relatives and close friends. It was stated that she had been suffering from a
chronic illness. == Musical style ==