Chihiro Yonekura

I'll be honest, my brain files Chihiro Yonekura under "that crystal-clear voice that scored a chunk of my anime memories," and I mean that as the highest compliment. She's a Yokohama-born singer-songwriter who came up in the '90s, and "Butterfly Kiss" is the kind of song that, the second the intro hits, just yanks me straight back to a specific couch and a specific TV. What I respect most is that she writes her own words and music and keeps singing them in her own voice, no chasing trends, no variety-show clowning for attention. There's a quiet stubbornness to that, an artist who just keeps tending her own lane while the noise moves on. Decades in, the voice still soars clean and bright on those big choruses, and honestly that consistency is its own flex. I'm a low-key, long-haul fan of hers.

Chihiro Yonekura is a Japanese singer-songwriter born on August 19, 1972, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. She attended Tokai University and has built a career writing and performing her own songs. She is widely known for her signature tracks "Butterfly Kiss" and "Yakusoku no Basho e" (Toward the Place of Promise). She has maintained an official website and an active presence on X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Chihiro Yonekura

Name (Japanese)

米倉千尋

Reading

よねくら ちひろ

Born

August 19, 1972 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat (子)

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Singer-songwriter

University

Tokai University

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.yonekurachihiro.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/yonekurachihiro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B1%B3%E5%80%89%E5%8D%83%E5%B0%8B

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Singer-songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

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