February 19 is Mika Nakajima's 40th birthday.
On the same day, she announced her remarriage.
"To report a private matter to everyone who has always supported me, I am naturalized today, and the object is guitarist Ma Gu."
"We will continue to move forward hand in hand in the future, and we will feel very happy if everyone can also protect us warmly in the future."
Simple happy news, holding hands in a wedding ring.
No one is in the camera, but you can feel this joy and happiness across the screen.
Her new husband Ma Gu Yongyou is 2 years older than her and has known each other for 12 years.
They are close friends who have worked together through sorrows and joys, and now they have become a family with souls.
Can harvest love again and enter marriage, fans are "crazy":
"Lead singer X guitarist, it's so matched, you must be happy forever!"
"She's Mika Nakajima!"
Yes, she's Mika Nakajima.
The worst singer who almost disappeared can finally be happy once, right?
Mika Nakajima's first marriage was with Kunihiro Shimizu.
This sweetest sibling love in the past once made many people in Japan believe in the beauty of love.
One is a diva level singer, and the other is a well-known volleyball player, as if it is a sweet setting.
Because he accidentally saw Kunihiro Shimizu's match on TV, Mika Nakajima secretly agreed to him.
One day in 2011, she flew to the scene to see him.
That was their first meeting.
After the game, Mika Nakajima approached Kunihiro Shimizu and handed him a small note with her phone number.
Too shy to the point of not daring to lift his head, only squeezed out a sentence "Please be friends with me".
The diva who sang in front of tens of thousands of people, such a helpless little girl, everyone saw it for the first time.
In 2014, they got married.
They are passionate and committed to supporting each other.
Those love moments frozen in front of the camera are warm and flamboyant.
Unfortunately, their love lost to distance.
Mika Nakajima's career is in Tokyo, and Kunihiro Shimizu's club is in Osaka, and it is not uncommon to not be able to see each other for a long time.
In the end, neither of them could compromise for the other.
In 2018, they chose to divorce.
At the concert soon after, Mika Nakajima ended with a song "Final Chapter".
Many people think that Kunihiro Shimizu will be the one who pulled Mika Nakajima out of the abyss of pain.
Because before meeting him, it was Mika Nakajima's darkest days.
Like many people, "Snow Flowers" was the first song I listened to by Mika Nakajima.
This song, which made her popular all over Asia, was once covered into a Chinese and became Han Xue's masterpiece.
It was also covered into Korean and used in "Sorry, I Love You", becoming the Korean movie that everyone was stabbed the hardest.
There are also many people who know her through the movie "NANA".
Cigarettes, smoky makeup, lotus tattoos, rivet chokers, cool girls who sing rock and roll have a flamboyant personality and grow savagely.
We all think that Mika Nakajima is Nana Osaki herself.
Actually, it's somewhat similar.
Mika Nakajima has been experiencing school bullying from childhood to adolescence.
She dropped out of school at the age of 14 and worked at a fast-food restaurant all the way to support herself.
A world-weary face, dressed like a bad sister, is actually used to hide vulnerability.
She was bullied and scared.
Finally, she plucked up the courage to send her demo to the record company one day.
At that time, she thought: give it a try, maybe it can change the status quo of decadence.
At the age of 18, she let the Japanese music scene know a girl named Mika Nakajima.
She, dressed in Y2K, cold and mysterious, with stubborn eyes, brought a huge impact to the Japanese entertainment industry with vitality and sweetness as the mainstream.
The debut song "STARS" was a blockbuster and ranked in the top three of the charts.
She has a star tattoo on her left wrist and was once asked what the meaning was.
"Because I'm a superstar," she said. ”
With "NANA", she won the "Japanese Oscar" for Best Actress and Best Newcomer.
The movie theme song, "Glamorous sky", made her sing her flamboyant and free self.
He also won the 2005 MTV Japan Music Award for Best Film Episode.
That year, he reached the pinnacle of his career.
Even if there were "Heisei Four Great Singers" in Japan at that time (Ayumi Hamasaki, Mai Kuraki, Hikaru Utada, Namie Amuro).
But Mika Nakajima still surprised the four seats with her very infectious scene and gentle and penetrating voice.
She was named the "Perfect Singer".
But he never thought that the moment he touched heaven, he would be dragged into hell.
In 2008, she identified "open eustachian tubes".
This condition causes the closed Eustachian tube to keep open, causing her to continue tinnitus.
When we take a bath, just the water in our ears will be uncomfortable, but she has to endure the pain of magnification dozens of times.
However, it is not only the body that is tortured.
She began to have voices that she had never had before.
What followed was the abuse on the hot search, and the media's "singer is out of character".
But no one knew that she was almost deaf at the time, and it was difficult to distinguish between the outside world and her own voice.
How cruel is this for a singer who sees singing as life?
She was kicked from the top to the bottom.
She had been scared and avoided, but she was not willing to give up her life.
"It's really hard for me to accept the fact that I can't sing because my ears can't sing, so I can't say anything to anyone."
"When people started blaming me for not working hard, to be honest, I was really unwilling at the time."
I have been seeking treatment for 2 years, and I have heard "there is no cure" countless times.
Even if she was unwilling, she could not continue to sing on stage at that time.
In 2010, she announced that she would suspend all performing arts activities due to illness and temporarily leave the stage.
Many people say that it is better to retire than to survive, or at least it seems more decent.
Anyway, in Mika Nakajima's singing career, there are all kinds of honors and awards.
But she still chose to continue treatment, even if there was only a 1% chance of recovery.
Because, still unwilling.
"It's not that I didn't want to give up, but besides singing, I didn't want to do anything more, and I always felt like I had to sing."
Anyway, life can't be worse, it's better to give it a go.
IN 2011, AT THE CONCERT FOR THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF HER DEBUT, MIKA NAKAJIMA RETURNED TO THE STAGE WITH "A MIRACLE FOR YOU" AGREED WITH FANS.
Even if she has not yet recovered, she wants to tell everyone through her singing:
"With such a fragile me, I will stand on the stage again, and you will definitely be able to get through the difficulties in life."
In order to continue singing, she had to change the way she sang.
She learned to use her body to make sounds, and different intensities produced different high notes.
She had to roar, shouting loudly to keep the pitch.
"When I couldn't hear the sound, I started to use my throat indiscriminately, and in the end, I couldn't even make a sound."
At that time, many people said that a generation of singers became ghosts crying wolf howls from the sound of heaven.
When she fell in love with Shimizu Kunihiro, everyone thought that love could pull her out of the abyss, but only she knew:
"In the darkest part of life, I pulled myself out of the abyss, and when there was no one to help me, I was the one myself."
In the face of cynicism, she persevered for 10 years.
During those days, Mika Nakajima launched the "10,000 Chorus" campaign on tour.
When the audience sang the classic song "Snow Flowers" aloud together, she burst into tears.
The world is lively, but the protagonist is inaudible.
But if you open your eyes, you can see the waved glow sticks and smiling faces all over the audience.
Fans never give up on themselves.
In 2013, a song "Once I Thought About a Hundred" touched countless people.
The lyrics depict the most mundane daily life and tell us to live well to feel:
"Seagulls screaming on the pier, apricot blossoms blooming on birthdays, insect remains, rusty arch bridges, abandoned bicycles."
It seems to be depressing, but it is actually healing.
This song is tailor-made for Mika Nakajima.
By her cry out, experience the dark abyss, and hope to die.
"The thought of death in my mind must be because I am too serious about living."
Through her singing, it seems that she can catch a beam of light through the confusion.
Ignite a little expectation of the world and the idea of living with the loved ones.
I always remember the tour in 2015.
At that time, she Nakajima Mika was completely inaudible.
But when she appeared in a red dress, it seemed to complete a final nirvana.
She replaced the chant with a scream, each note that seemed to penetrate into the marrow.
She stepped on the stage to beat the beat, shattering the stage every time she fell.
She uses her hand to sense the vibration of the speaker to determine the rhythm, as if she has found a sense of security in the silent world of uncertainty.
The moment she knelt, she seemed to be the most devout believer in the music world.
Even heaven will be moved.
Last year, she announced that her hearing had recovered.
Although the previous clear voice cannot be restored, the singing voice filled with feelings can hit people's hearts more directly.
Because, there is a lot of rebirth and metamorphosis.
Now, Mika Nakajima, who has regained her footsteps, has regained happiness again.
After the official announcement of remarriage, everyone found that everything was traceable.
Over the years, at every concert of Mika Nakajima, there is Yuyo Matani standing next to him.
Yutomo Matani has been the guitarist of Mika Nakajima since 2011.
After a break from working together for a while, a few years ago, Yutomo Magani rejoined Mika Nakajima's team and went on tour together.
She sings, he plays, two burning souls, finally falling in love in the world of music.
Some people say that as if seeing the ending of "NANA" rewritten, Nana Osaki finally chose Tay, who has always guarded her.
Because it just so happened that Tai also shaved his head.
Over the years, I was fortunate to have him by my side.
I also remember what Nana Osaki said:
"My life was originally a third-rate TV series, and it didn't matter how others added oil and vinegar to the legend of my dark past, but I wanted to act in person for the script towards the light."
Ears have been destroyed, voices have disappeared, and former lovers have not been able to stay together until the end.
Fortunately, like Nana Osaki, she has the courage to rewrite the script of her life.
Mika Nakajima, please be happy!
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