Sayuri Sugawara(菅原紗由理) Changed Name To THE SxPLAY; To Start Music Career As Indie Artist

Singer-songwriter Sayuri Sugawara(菅原紗由理) made a blog post on STORYS.jp about her "resigning as a major artist" on February 2nd, 2014. Sugawara frankly spelled out everything and posted her feelings and thoughts online about starting her music career afresh from Indies. She also has changed her name and will now be called "THE SxPLAY" (The spray).

Since her debut at the age of 19, she has contributed many memorable songs such as the theme song to FINAL FANTASY XIII titled "Kimi ga Iru Kara(君がいるから)", a song that was a big hit among high
school students titled "Kimi Ni Okuru Uta(キミに贈る歌)", and the drama insert song to Fuji TV drama
called "Sunao ni Narenakute(素直になれなくて)". So in pursuit of music, she has opened up the road for herself and will now come up with a new musicality reminiscent of COLD PLAY.

THE SxPLAY's debut work is titled "Call To Action" and it will be released on May 28th, 2014. She did all the songwriting herself for the mini album and the demos have been published onto YouTube. As for the producer of the release, Sugawara approached YUKI of BENNIE K with great trust and asked her. The upcoming release will be completely different from what she has done before. THE SxPLAY will now be singing with great strength instead of singing from sad woman's perspective during her Sayuri Sugawara days.

In addition, it has been determined that she will be holding her first one-man live as THE SxPLAY at Shibuya eggman on July 12th, 2014. Once again, Sayuri Sugawara is now called THE SxPLAY and everyone has big expectation for her as she's starting her musical career over as an indie artist.

Call To Action THE SxPLAY CD | Release: 2014/05/28

ships on the release date 1574yen (US$ 15.36)

THE SxPLAY - Call To Action [2014.05.28]
Tracklisting:

<CD>
01. PLAY～再生～
02. Living Rock
03. Break Out
04. FUNFUNFUNNY
05. My Bad Ending
06. Sweet Sacrifice





THE SxPLAY『Living Rock』トレーラー


SAYURI SUGAWARA-新曲DEMOその3 ver.2

SAYURI SUGAWARA-新曲DEMOその3


Source: SxPLAY Twitter, THE SxPLAY Facebook, musicman-net.com