BEGIN

Artist

BEGIN is a Japanese acoustic band whose members come from Ishigaki Island, Okinawa. Fusing island-song flavor using the sanshin with folky pop, they are loved across a wide range of generations for their warm, unpretentious singing. For 'Twin Spica', an anime about girls aspiring to become astronauts, they covered 'Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi wo', a song also famous as a Kyu Sakamoto classic, as the ending theme, softly enveloping the aftertaste of the series with a heart-penetrating performance that draws close to the characters gazing at the night sky and their dreams. They also handled 'Kimi wo Miteiru', the ending of the ensemble drama 'Zipang', in which the JMSDF Aegis destroyer 'Mirai' time-slips into the Pacific War, supporting with a calm song the emotions of people swaying between the gaps in history.