Maaya Sakamoto

Maaya Sakamoto (坂本 真綾, Sakamoto Maaya, born March 31, 1980) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress, and voice actress who made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in Little Twins, but is better known as voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne. She released her debut single Yakusoku wa Iranai, in collaboration with Yoko Kanno under Victor Entertainment on April 24, 1996.

She has also branched into singing, performing songs in both English and Japanese. As well as being a prolific voice actress, she has also had several successful releases; despite initially only modestly selling, her singles "Tune the Rainbow", "Loop", "Ame ga Furu", and "Triangler" have all reached the top 10 Oricon singles chart: "Triangler" in particular charted at number 3 and remained charting for 26 weeks. Her albums have had similar success, with Shōnen Alice and Yūnagi Loop both reaching the top 10 Oricon albums chart; and her album You Can't Catch Me, released on January 12, 2011, became her first release to ever reach number 1. She held a concert at the Nippon Budokan on March 31, 2010, her thirtieth birthday. She is also the Japanese voice dub-over artist for Natalie Portman.

You Can't Catch Me (album)

You Can't Catch Me is Maaya Sakamoto's seventh studio album. Similar to its predecessor, the album is produced by various renowned composers. The first pressing came with a bonus CD featuring seven live tracks from her memorial concert "Gift" in Budokan on March 2010. A PV version for the track "Himitsu" was also made to promote the album.

Track listing

Charts

References

You Can't Catch Me

"You Can't Catch Me" is a song written and performed by Chuck Berry, released as a single in 1956. The song's lyrics mention racing a souped-up "air-mobile" down the New Jersey Turnpike. It was featured in the 1956 Berry film Rock, Rock, Rock, and was one of only four songs from the film that made it to the "soundtrack", and the only Berry song to make both the movie and the soundtrack.

Cover versions

The Rolling Stones covered the song in 1965, as did John Lennon in 1975. A version was also recorded by The Blues Project on their album Projections. Florence Rawlings covered the song for her debut album A Fool In Love in 2009. George Thorogood and The Destroyers covered it on their album, Born to Be Bad.

Chuck Berry's music publisher sued John Lennon for copyright infringement because of the melodic similarity between "You Can't Catch Me" and The Beatles' 1969 song "Come Together", which Lennon wrote, as well as the fact that "Come Together" used some of the song's lyrics ("here come old flat-top"). The suit was eventually settled out of court. The settlement included Lennon covering the song for his 1975 cover album Rock 'N' Roll.