for the movie Heaven's Door, and was chosen to write and perform the theme song titled “Ai no Kisetsu” for the NHK morning drama Tsubasa broadcast from March 30, 2009. In September 2010, Aki released her fourth full album in Japan, Life, and then in September 2011 released her fifth full album White. Songbook, a cover album by Aki, was released on January 11, 2012. BLUE was released as Aki's 7th full Japanese studio album on July 18, 2012, along with the single from the same album, "Confession" (告白), released July 11, 2012. On March 5, 2014, Tapestry of Songs: The Best of Angela Aki was released in two versions, the standard version consisting of tracks of singles released since 2005 (通常盤 ESCL-4170), and a two disc version (初回生産限定盤 ESCL-30010), which added songs Aki considered her favourites on the second disc. In 2014, she announced that she would be putting her music career on hold while she went to America to study music as she prepares herself to take on the role of musical director for a Broadway project being undertaken by a friend. In 2016, she wrote three original songs for the musical Out of Shadowland at Tokyo DisneySea. The same year, she composed a song for Masayuki Suzuki. In 2017, she wrote and produced for May J. Discography Studio albums 2001: These Words 2006: Home 2007: Today 2009: Answer 2010: Life 2011: White 2012: Blue References External links 1977 births Living people Sony Music Entertainment Japan artists Sony BMG artists Japanese people of American descent Japanese women pop singers Japanese pianists Japanese women pianists Video game musicians Columbian College of Arts and Sciences alumni People from Hawaii ʻIolani School alumni Japanese people of Italian descent Musicians from Tokushima Prefecture English-language singers from Japan Japanese women singer-songwriters Japanese singer-songwriters 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century women pianists