About meg rock

meg rock is a female Japanese artist Megumi Hinata (日向めぐみ). She is also a member of メロキュア (MELOCURE). Her solo career starts 1998. under her debut solo stage name Gumi (グミ). She changed name to meg rock in 2004., after this year all releases are under meg rock. Megumi Hinata began learning to play the piano at the age of four, and said she first became interested in music in the latter half of elementary school, which she spent in the United States. After returning to Japan, she began writing lyrics and music, and participated in band activities at school. Hinata is considerably fluent in English. Her lyrics often contain whole verses or choruses in English, and she has even written a few songs entirely in English. She has also translated lyrics for other artists from English to Japanese (Hilary Duff's song "I Can't Wait", for example) as well as from Japanese to English. Throughout her career she has operated under many names. Under the direction of Kohmi Hirose, Megumi Hinata had her singing debut in 1998 as GUMI (グミ) and sung the theme song and several insert songs for the immensely popular Card Captor Sakura anime. She changed her solo stage name to meg rock in 2004. In addition to her solo career, she had a side project with Akimitsu Honma from 2000 to 2001 called g.e.m., and another with Ritsuko Okazaki started in April 2002 called メロキュア (MELOCURE), which ended abruptly due to Okazaki's death in 2004. MELOCURE created music for a number of anime series including UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, Stratos 4, and Oku-sama wa Mahō Shōjo: Bewitched Agnes. With her personal name, 日向めぐみ (Megumi Hinata), she released one album 2005.06.22, 夏の向こう側 (Natsu no Mukōgawa), which had been used as Opening theme for UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie. As a producer and lyricist, she is known either as Megumi Hinata, meg hinata or meg rock. She has produced songs for a great number of singers, the most famous of which include Chieko Kawabe, Nami Tamaki, and Shoko Nakagawa. She is currently signed to Mellow Head. Her discography as meg rock spans to one full album, one mini album and five singles. Her fist full album was released early 2008, including all the A-sides of her three singles, [ベビーローテンション (BabyLowTension)], [clover] and [incl.]. Aside her solo projects, she also contributes her writing skill to Shoko Nakagawa(中川翔子), Aya Hirano(平野綾), Chieco Kawabe(河辺千恵子) and others. Official site: www.megrock.com