Maju Arai

Artist

Maju 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 performs '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, and her technically assured vocal expression gives her a wide performance range.