Kirari | |
Native Name: | 希良梨 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Background: | solo_singer |
Birth Date: | October 23, 1980 |
Birth Place: | Okinawa Prefecture, Japan |
Years Active: | 1997–present |
Associated Acts: | There |
Website: | http://ameblo.jp/aksgod23/ |
is a Japanese actress, singer, and songwriter.
In 1997 she debuted as an actress in the television drama .[1] The next year she played the role of Chisa Noda in the Hideaki Anno film Love & Pop.[2] Kirari wrote "Last Piece" as the end theme for the anime series Great Teacher Onizuka, and she played Nanako in the first live TV version of GTO.[3] Her cover of Martika's Toy Soldiers reached number 18 on the Oricon charts in May 2000.
Shortly afterward she put her career on hold and withdrew from Japanese public life.
Fifteen years later she revealed that she had been ill with cervical cancer, and after recovery had moved to Taiwan, married her husband, and had a child.[4]