Keiko Lee

Artist

Keiko Lee is a female jazz vocalist born in Korea and based in Japan. Armed with a smoky, deep alto and refined scatting, she sings everything from standards to Japanese pop covers, and is known as a top-class artist with strong support in Japan's jazz scene. For the anime 'Requiem from the Darkness', an adaptation of Natsuhiko Kyogoku's 'Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari', she handled both the opening 'The Flame' and the ending 'The Moment of Love' as theme songs that symbolize the fantastical and somber world of its tales of the strange. Her voice, charged with an enchanting, dense mood, responds splendidly to the visual beauty of this work set in the darkness of Edo, and forms an indispensable sonic image when discussing the series.