Ai

For our third regular broadcast, we welcome the charismatic singer, AI! In addition to her incredible vocals, her songs also feature powerful lyrics full of positive messages that can pick you up whenever you're feeling down. At the young age of 15, AI left her home prefecture of Kagoshima and flew to America to pursue a career in music, an incredibly difficult challenge that tested the singer's resilience. Our program's host, Shingo Murakami, dives into AI's "story" to learn about the life experiences that helped shape her ability to create such impactful music.In this episode, she performs her megahit "HAPPINESS" with a chorus featuring 100 of her biggest fans from around the world, a performance that blew everyone in the studio away. She also sings the English version of "Story," a track that became a massive hit as the ending theme for the Japanese release of Disney's "Big Hero 6".