Flowers Will Bloom (花は咲) (Hana wa Saku)

Flowers Will Bloom (花は咲) (Hana wa Saku)

Composer: Yoko Kanno
Arranger: Yoshihiro Koseki

The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami brought an unprecedented scale of damage to northeastern Japan. 花は咲, or Hana wa Saku, or Flowers Will Bloom, was composed by Yoko Kanno to support recovery in disaster-hit areas. In 2021, a multilingual version of the song was created, which is sung in 11 languages.   

Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子 Kanno Yōko, born March 18, 1963) is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks on anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Featuring lyrics by Sendai film director Shunji Iwa, the song features notable natives from the affected areas of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate.

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“花正在開”或“花會綻放”（日語：花は咲く, 英語Flowers Will Bloom或Hana wa Saku）是花正在開計劃的單曲，由岩井俊二作詞，菅野洋子作曲、編曲。2012年5月23日以CD形式發售。歌唱參加者是岩手縣、宮城縣、福島縣的出身的明星或著名人士。本歌曲是為東日本大震災的災民籌款來幫助他們複興和支援的主題曲之一。

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