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Gates to official residences often feature elaborate ironwork.

A monumental gate of the Great Mosque of Kairouan also known as the Mosque of Uqba, in Kairouan, Tunisia.

A gate or gateway is a point of entry to a space enclosed by walls, or a moderately sized opening in a fence. Gates may prevent or control entry or exit, or they may be merely decorative. Other terms for gate include yett and port. The word derives from the old Norse "gata", meaning road or path, and originally referred to the gap in the wall or fence, rather than the barrier which closed it.

A gate may have a latch to keep it from swinging and a lock for security. Larger gates can be used for a whole building, such as a castle or fortified town, or the actual doors that block entry through the gatehouse. Today, many gate doors are opened by an automated gate operator.

Types[link]

Types of gates include:

• Baby gate
• City gate
• Hampshire gate
• Kissing gate
• Lych gate
• Torii
• Turnstile

Gallery[link]

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  This gate does not prevent entry but clearly suggests a borderline

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  A small but elegant gate to a meadow path

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  Ishtar Gate is the oldest city gate in existence

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  Wringin Lawang, a 14th century Majapahit split gate in Trowulan

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  Richly decorated Balinese temple gate

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  This gate at Columbia University was closed to prevent entry of protesters

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  Malaysian King's Palace Gate, Kuala Lampur

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  Medieval ironclad city gate, from the Upper Gate in the old town of Ohrid

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  Chinese traditional type gate (iron gate in front of house) in Kerala, India

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  Gates decorate routes in the entrance of Muscat, Oman

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  Kuwait Gate, historically surrounded Kuwait City, built in 1929

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  Royal Military College of Canada front gates and gatehouse

See also[link]

• Bab (Gateway)
• Barrier
• Border
• Doorway
• Gatehouse
• Gate tower
• Gateway
• Gopuram
• Leave the gate as you found it
• Portcullis
• Threshold (disambiguation)
• Triumphal arch

External links[link]

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Emma Louise Hewitt (born in Geelong, Australia) is a singer-songwriter and trance vocalist who lives in Amsterdam.

Biography[link]

Hewitt was the lead singer of the Australian rock band Missing Hours, with whom she released the eponymous debut album in October 2008. The band that she formed with her brother Anthony is currently no longer active, because both now live in Europe and are now working as songwriters of electronic dance music.^[1]

Although Emma Hewitt had a musical background in rock music, she released her debut single in 2007 in the field of progressive house. "Carry Me Away" was a collaboration with British DJ Chris Lake. The single reached number 11 in the Spanish singles charts as well as number 12 in Finland.^[2] The single was a total of 50 weeks in the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay charts in the United States and reached number 1 in December 2007.

After the success of her first single, she has worked with several trance artists such as Cosmic Gate, Gareth Emery, Dash Berlin and Ronski Speed. The single "Waiting", which she published with Dash Berlin in 2009, was ranked 25th in the Belgian singles charts. In Armin van Buurens popular radio show A State of Trance the single was elected by the audience with 2109 votes to the second best song of the year 2009.^[3] At the International Dance Music Awards 2010 "Waiting" was awarded as best HiNRG/Euro Track. She was nominated twice in the category Best Trance Track with "Waiting" and "Not Enough Time".^[4]

Discography[link]

As Missing Hours

• Missing Hours (2008)

As Emma Hewitt

• Burn the Sky Down (18 May 2012)^[5]

Singles

• 2012: Colours
• 2012: Miss You Paradise

Collaborations

• 2007: Chris Lake feat. Emma Hewitt – Carry Me Away (Hot Dance Airplay #1, Global Dance Tracks #28)
• 2009: Cosmic Gate feat. Emma Hewitt – Not Enough Time
• 2009: Serge Devant feat. Emma Hewitt – Take Me With You
• 2009: Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Waiting
• 2009: Amurai feat. Emma Hewitt – Crucify Yourself
• 2010: Ronski Speed pres. Sun Decade feat. Emma Hewitt – Lasting Light
• 2010: Marcus Schössow & Reeves feat. Emma Hewitt – Light
• 2010: Gareth Emery with Emma Hewitt – I Will Be the Same
• 2010: Lange feat. Emma Hewitt – Live Forever
• 2011: Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Disarm Yourself
• 2011: Allure feat. Emma Hewitt – No Goodbyes
• 2011: Allure feat. Emma Hewitt – Stay Forever
• 2011: Micky Slim feat. Emma Hewitt - Tonight
• 2011: Cosmic Gate feat. Emma Hewitt - Be Your Sound
• 2011: Cosmic Gate feat. Emma Hewitt - Calm Down
• 2012: Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Like Spinning Plates

External links[link]

• Official website
• Emma Hewitt discography at Discogs
• Emma Hewitt on Myspace

References[link]

1. ^ beatsmedia.com: Beatsmedia exclusively interviews Emma Hewitt. Accessed 23 October 2010.
2. ^ swisscharts.com: Chris Lake feat. Emma Hewitt - Carry Me Away. Accessed 23 March 2010.
3. ^ A State of Trance, Episode 436. Accessed 23 October 2010.
4. ^ 25th Annual International Dance Music Awards Nominees and Winners. Accessed 27 March 2010.
5. ^ Emma Hewitt Announces Debut Album, BURN THE SKY DOWN. Accessed 2 May 2012.

Yuna Ito 伊藤 由奈
Yuna Ito in Honolulu, Hawaii (2006)
Background information
Birth name	Yuna Ito
Also known as	伊東 クリスティーン (Itō Christine)
Born	(1983-09-20) September 20, 1983 (age 28) Los Angeles, California, United States
Origin	Oahu, Hawaii, United States
Genres	Pop
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, actress, composer, spokesperson
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Studioseven Recordings
Associated acts	Celine Dion, Micro
Website	www.yunaweb.com

Yuna Ito (伊藤 由奈, Itō Yuna^?) (born September 20, 1983) is an American pop singer-songwriter and actress who is active in Japan.

She was born in Los Angeles and was raised in Hawaii. Ito made her musical debut in Japan with the single, "Endless Story", which was used as one of the theme songs for the popular 2005 film Nana; she also starred in the film, portraying Reira Serizawa. In 2006, Ito reprised her role as Reira for the sequel of the film singing the theme song, "Truth". In 2007, Ito released her debut album, Heart, which debuted atop the Oricon chart.

Biography[link]

Early life and music interest[link]

Ito was born to a Japanese father and a Korean-American mother^[1] in Los Angeles, California. She has a younger brother, Johnny. Her family later moved to Oahu, Hawaii where she remained until the start of her singing career in Japan. From a young age Ito dreamed about becoming a singer, after being inspired by the powerful vocals of Celine Dion.^[2] At the age of fifteen she was offered a music contract, but turned it down, explaining: "They saw me as a girl and not a singer."^[2]

Initially when Ito told her parents of plans to become a singer they disapproved of her choice. Her parents wanted Ito to attend school and meet a "nice guy". Ito disagreed with her parents, saying they wanted to "compact her life into a storybook".^[2] Ito graduated from McKinley High School in 2001. She moved to Japan in 2003.^[1]

2005—2007: Debut[link]

In 2005, Ito was chosen to portray Reira Serizawa, the vocalist for rock band Trapnest in the film adaptation of Ai Yazawa's popular manga series Nana.^[2] She released her debut single, "Endless Story", under the name "Reira Starring Yuna Ito"; the song was used as one of the theme songs for the film. "Endless Story" debuted on the Oricon chart at the #2 position.^[3] Following the release of "Endless Story" was her second single, "Faith/Pureyes" (2006), which debuted at #6 on the charts.^[2][3]

Ito released her third single, "Precious", which debuted at #3 on the charts.^[3] The single contained two b-sides, "I'm Free" and "Secret"; the latter was co-written by Ito and was the first time she contributed to one of her singles. Ito released three more singles in 2006; "Stuck on You", "Losin'", and "Truth". The singles debuted at the respective numbers of #20, #19 and #10.^[3] "Truth", released under the name "Reira Starring Yuna Ito", was used as a theme song for Nana 2 in which Ito again portrayed Reira Serizawa.

Ito started off 2007 with the release of her debut album Heart. Upon its release Heart topped the Oricon album chart.^[2] Heart was certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan.^[4] In March, Ito released her seventh single, "I'm Here", which debuted at #15 on the Oricon chart.^[3]

The single following "I'm Here" was "Mahaloha" (June), which was a collaboration with Micro from the band Def Tech. The single debuted at #5 on the chart. Along with Micro, Ito wrote the lyrics and composed the song.^[5] At the end of the year, Ito released her ninth single, "Urban Mermaid", which debuted at #10 on the charts.^[3]

2008—present[link]

Her tenth single, entitled Anata ga Iru Kagiri: A World to Believe In, was released in on January 16, 2008. The song is a duet with Celine Dion. When Dion heard Ito's rendition of her song, she proposed the idea of a duet.^[6] Dion originally released this song on her latest English album Taking Chances. The song was used in an au LISMO commercial.^[7] A World to Believe In was nominated for 'Best Collaboration Video', for the MTV Video Awards Japan '08,^[8] but lost to Kumi Koda's Last Angel.^[9]

The singer's second album Wish was released on February 20 and debuted at number three on the charts. Since the release of Wish, the album has been certified gold by the RIAJ.^[10] Unite As One a song on her album, was used as the ending theme song for Konami's Time Hollow.^[11] In March, Ito became spokesperson for Proactiv Japan.^[12] Ito was featured in the commercial along with her song, "Tokyo Days", as the theme.^[12]

In June 2008, Ito collaborated with popular Japanese music producer Takeshi Kobayashi (who produced music for Mr. Children, a famous Japanese band) and Russian conductor Mikhail Pletnev, to sing Gate, the theme song for the documentary movie with the same name, Gate.^[13][14]

Her eleventh single entitled "Miss You" was released on September 3, 2008^[15] and was used as the theme song for Ito En Vitamin Fruit.^[16] "Miss You" inspired the cellphone novel Tenshi no Koi (天使の恋, lit. Angel's Love^?), which was written by sin.^[17] "Love Machine Gun" was also used as the main theme song for the novel.^[18] Ito was featured in the 6/4 edition of the magazine, "Oricon Style", as the fifth-most suited for bridal wear.^[19] She was also featured in the 6/11 edition as sixth for most princess-like.^[20]

Her next single titled Koi wa Groovy x2 (恋はgroovy×2, lit. Love is Groovy Groovy^?) was used as the Gap Japan's 2008 Holiday Collection Winter Neutrals campaign song. In addition to her song being used, Ito was also chosen to be a Gap model in July.^[1] Ito released an English version of "Koi wa Groovy x2", entitled "groovy x2" under the pseudonym Christine Ito (伊藤 クリスティーン^?).^[21] Sony Music Japan created an official website for Christine and a blog.^[22][23]

Ito collaborated with hip-pop/reggae duo Spontania for their single Ima Demo Zutto (今でもずっと, lit. Now and Forever^?), which was released on January 28, 2009.^[24] Ito's thirteenth single "Trust You", became the fourth ending theme song for the anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season. The single was released on March 4, 2009 and became Ito's first Top 5 single since "Mahaloha" in 2007.

On March 31, 2009 Ima Demo Aitai Yo... feat. Spontania (今でも会いたいよ..., lit. I Still Miss You^?), which was the answer song to Spontania's "Ima Demo Zutto", was released online through ringtone sites. Ito's third album titled Dream was released on May 27, 2009.^[15] A single, "Let it Go", was released on November 11, 2009.

In June 2010, Yuna opened a special project named 洋楽カバーをやってほしい; I Want You to Do a Western Cover. The idea was that she would do a live cover on her radio show Heart to Heart. However, there were so many requests that her official website took the project and turned it into Ito Yuna Respects. After that 10 songs were selected (that were requested the most) and people could vote on one of these songs. The song that won the poll was Aerosmith's I Don't Want to Miss a Thing.^[25] After recording and releasing the song on July 28, the project announced a second poll. The song that got selected was Elvis Costello's She.^[26] The song was released on August 25.^[27] A third song was Chicago's Hard to Say I'm Sorry.^[28]

On 9 September, the website Spanspo mentioned that the drama named Ougon no Buta would feature a theme song sung by Yuna.^[29] Two weeks later Sony's Music Shop confirmed the theme song would be released as a new single named Mamotte Agetai. The single was released on 3 November 2010.^[30]

Ito then released her first compilation album Love: Single's Best 2005—2010 on December 8. It marks Ito's final release under her record company as of 2012.

Discography[link]

Filmography[link]

Awards[link]

• Best New Artist (Best Hit Kayōsai 2005, 11.21.2005)
• Best New Artist (Japan Cable Awards 2005, 12.17.2005)
• Special Award for Nana (47th Japan Record Awards, 12.31.2005)
• Best New Artist (Japan Gold Disc Awards 2006, 9.3.2006)
• Gold Artist Award (Best Hit Kayōsai 2006, 11.20.2006)
• Audience Request Award (39th Yūsen Taishō, 12.16.2006)
• Best Asia from Japan (MTV Video Music Awards Japan, 05.25.2007)

Radio programs[link]

From October 4, 2005 until March 28, 2006, Ito was moderator of her own radio show, Journey, which aired on Tokyo's InterFM radio station. Ito later returned with a new radio show, Heart to Heart.^[31]

On February 27, 2008, Ito did a public live talk show with Hilary Duff on Tokyo FM's radio show entitled Wonderful World. Although she appeared on the radio show, Hilary Duff's main purpose was to promote Disney Mobile, which she did also on the show.^[32]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Yuna Ito official site
• Reira Starring Yuna Ito
• Official blog