Yui Horie

Aice is an all-female Japanese J-pop group that comprises five Japanese voice actresses: Yui Horie, Chiaki Takahashi, Akemi Kanda, Masumi Asano and... Madoka Kimura. Yui Horie founded the group on October 29, 2005. Two of the songs they produced, "Yūjō Monogatari" and "Love Power" were featured as the ending theme of the anime series Inukami! and the opening theme of the anime series Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru respectively. The group was officially disbanded as of September 20, 2007 on Yui Horie's thirty-first birthday.
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King Records Company, Ltd. is a Japanese record company, founded in 1931 as a division of Japanese publisher Kodansha. It became and began operating as an independent entity in the 1950s, but remains part of the publisher's Otowa Group. Now one of Japan's largest record companies not to be owned... by a multinational entity, it is headquartered in Tokyo. Its Starchild label, managed by animation producer Toshimichi Ōtsuki, specialises in anime music and film. King Records also distributes the Up-Front Works-owned and operated labels Piccolo Town and Rice Music, and also released video games for the PC-88, Famicom, and MSX2 computers. You! Be Cool is the official sub-label for AKB48. Venus-B is the company's official urban music imprint.
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Pop music is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms popular music and pop... music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music which is popular , whilst the latter is a specific genre containing qualities of mass appeal. As a genre, pop music is very eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country; nonetheless, there are core elements which define pop. Such include generally short-to-medium length songs, written in a basic format , as well as the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and catchy hooks. So-called "pure pop" music, such as power pop, features all these elements, utilising electric guitars, drums and bass for instrumentation; in the case of such music, the main goal is usually that of being pleasurable to listen to, rather than having much artistic depth.
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