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Yoko Kanno Vocalist Raj Ramayya Releases Digimon Adventure Theme Song Cover

San Francisco, CA, USA – March 8th, 2017 - Music production company Strawberry Hill Music is pleased to announce that singer-songwriter Raj Ramayya has released a cover of the Digimon Adventure opening theme “Butter-Fly”, in recognition of the release of the franchise's newest film release “Digimon Adventure tri. #4 – Loss (Soshitsu)” in Japan. This cover version of the song has been dubbed the “Dual World Version”, which reflects the different styles of jazz and rock contained within the arrangement, as well as recognizing the dual nature of the series protagonists' lives having to balance their everyday commitments with their families, friends, education, etc with their duties of saving two worlds alongside their digital monster partners. The song is available for both download and streaming on digital music services like iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Pandora, etc worldwide.

“Butter-Fly” was originally performed by the late J-Pop singer Kōji Wada, who passed away last April due to complications with nasopharynx cancer. Wada previously performed an assortment of songs for the Digimon anime franchise from 1999's Digimon Adventure through to 2011's Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms. The song was originally written for the 1999 Digimon Adventure anime by songwriter Hidenori Chiwata, and was recently re-released in a new arrangement as “Butter-Fly ~tri.Version~” for the film “Digimon Adventure tri. #1 – Reunion (Saikai)” on November 25th, 2015.

On August 19th, 2016, Ramayya released a cover version of the Pokémon theme song to celebrate the franchise's 20th anniversary, and a remixed version by the late James Laurence of the EDM group Friendzone was released on December 16th later on that year and dubbed the LVC “Sun & Moon” Remix in recognition of the latest instalments of the Nintendo handheld game series, Pokémon Sun Version & Pokémon Moon Version. Both songs are also available for download and streaming now on digital music services worldwide.

ABOUT RAJ RAMAYYA: Raj Ramayya is an Indo-Canadian singer, composer and lyricist based in Marin County, California. His claim to anime fame would be his musical collaborations with famed Japanese composer Yoko Kanno as a member of The Seatbelts. Ramayya sang the opening credits song "Ask DNA" and wrote the lyrics for "Cosmic Dare (Pretty with a Pistol)" from the fan favourite feature film Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, and both sang and wrote the lyrics for "Strangers" from the anime series Wolf's Rain. Not limited to music in anime, he has also worked on songs for video games from the likes of Konami, Sega, and CAPCOM.

Ramayya has been featured as a guest vocalist/composer with several distinguished artists, ranging from talented composers Yoko Kanno (Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain) and Tatsuya Oe (Captain Funk, Hotei), to gifted lyricists Chris Mosdell (Eric Clapton, YMO) and Ron Sexsmith, and everyone in-between. His work has won him multiple awards and critical acclaim from around the world.

Among his other projects are the alternative Indian-influenced folk rock band "The Beautiful Losers", the anime cover band “Raj and the Zen Masters”, the electronic Indian fusion music project "Bhang Lassi", and session singing for products ranging from Asahi Beer and KFC, to Toyota and Coca-Cola. He is also a guest vocalist with three different Japanese electronic music groups; Captain Funk, Akakage, and Studio Apartment, with SA's song "Strawberry Rainbow" (which Ramayya both sang and wrote lyrics for) hitting #1 on the iTunes Japan charts.

If you would like to contact Raj, visit his website www.rajramayya.com, like his Facebook page (www.Facebook.com/rajramayyamusic), and follow Raj on Twitter @rajramayya.

ABOUT STRAWBERRY HILL MUSIC: Strawberry Hill Music is a music production company based in San Francisco, CA. They specialize in music recording and production/post-production for film, television, animation, video games, commercials, audiobooks, and web-original series. They also produce and engineer music for artists such as Amanda Abizaid, Marsha Yuan, and Damon Mahoney (Three of Swords).

For more information, please visit SHM's official website (www.strawberryhillmusic.com), and follow them on social media through Facebook (www.Facebook.com/strawberryhillm) and Twitter @StrawberryHillM.


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