Maju Arai

Artist

Mashu Arai is a Japanese female artist active as a singer-songwriter. Centered on acoustic sounds and a delicate voice, her trademark is gentle yet firmly grounded songs that quietly accompany listeners' loneliness. Her warm performance style, rooted in solo guitar-and-voice singing, has earned her a strong reputation for patient, fully-drawn ballad expression. She wrote and performed "Listen," the ending theme of the TV anime Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp, a mid-tempo ballad in which strings and vocals richly intertwine and which drew attention as a song that embraces everyone's loneliness with affirmation. She is also active in live performance and writing for other artists, steadily expanding her audience through careful songwriting.