Donna Burke - Blue Nights

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:14
Size: 130,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:28) 1. Blue Nights
(4:20) 2. Am I Your Future
(4:50) 3. Think of Me
(4:00) 4. A Quiet Night
(3:35) 5. Wherever You Go
(4:41) 6. Where Did The Time Go
(3:59) 7. My Perfect Man
(5:29) 8. Time Has Told Me
(3:50) 9. Goin' Walkabout
(3:42) 10. Don't I Look Pretty
(4:58) 11. Superstar
(3:29) 12. Mr. Wrong
(5:47) 13. Goodbye Nakamura

Donna Burke (born 12 December 1964 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian singer, voice actress and businesswoman. She is also known for her vocal work on songs produced for video game series such as Metal Gear and Final Fantasy. Burke graduated from Edith Cowan University. Her education included "operatic voice, speech and drama" and she received classical voice training for ten years. From 1989 to 1995 Burke taught Media, English and Religious Education to senior students at Chisholm Catholic College. She moved to Japan in 1996 and initially worked as a teacher of English before obtaining some recording work.

Burke married Bill Benfield, a British former teacher. In 2004, Burke and Benfield started a record label, Dagmusic, which catered for foreign artists. Burke released her debut album, Lost and Found, through Dagmusic. Burke has worked as a freelance announcer at NHK since 1999. She also is the lyricist for numerous Japanese TV commercials, anime songs and J-pop group tunes. Burke created Hotteeze in 2004, a company she created to export Japanese heat pads worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Burke

Blue Nights

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Donna Burke - Donna Burke with the David Silverman Quartet

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:32
Size: 132,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:09) 1. The Way You Look Tonight
(4:47) 2. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(5:04) 3. Summertime
(3:54) 4. All Of Me
(2:45) 5. Nice Work If You Can Get It
(3:08) 6. Round Midnight
(4:03) 7. Someone To Watch Over Me
(2:59) 8. You Took Advantage Of Me
(4:11) 9. The Man That Got Away
(4:51) 10. Moon River
(2:38) 11. When You Wish Upon A Star
(4:43) 12. Crazy He Calls Me
(2:32) 13. Mona Lisa
(5:43) 14. My Funny Valentine

Donna Burke, singer-actor, was born in Melbourne, Australia but moved to Perth when she was 2. She is one of 7 children and has a twin brother. In 1996 after studying voice, speech and drama, media and religion and teaching high school she moved to Japan and settled in Tokyo where she met her husband, guitarist Bill Benfield. She is a voice actress, recording artist and performer and has sung the theme songs for famous games such as Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker and Metal Gear Solid V. Donna's voice is famous in Japan as the English announcement on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train. She sings and voices characters in anime and her song from Tokyo Ghoul Season 2 has over 5 million views on Youtube since it's release in 2015. Also in 2015 the epic MGSV song Sins of the Father was released on two albums- the official soundtrack and a special vocal album which featured Donna's remakes of popular Metal Gear Solid songs from the 28 year old franchise. Donna is an improvisation performer with the Tokyo Comedy Store Improvazilla show. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1051234/bio

Donna Burke with the David Silverman Quartet

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Donna Burke, Ganime Jazz - Encore

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:11
Size: 86,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:46) 1. Eyes on Me
(6:37) 2. Inner Universe
(5:23) 3. Radical Dreamers
(4:38) 4. Simple & Clean
(2:45) 5. Still Alive
(4:37) 6. The Real Folk Blues
(4:02) 7. To Zanarkand
(4:20) 8. Unravel

Donna Burke gained millions of fans in 2010 when “Heaven’s Divide” from the hit video game "Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker" was released worldwide. Since moving to Tokyo in 1996 and establishing her Dagmusic studio in 2004, she has been busy writing and producing music and comedy, while acting and recording and touring. The 2015 epic “Sins of the Father” from "MGS Phantom Pain" cemented Donna's status as a game music legend. Donna's poignant “Glassy Sky” from anime "Tokyo Ghoul" has over 70 million plays on YouTube as well as 20,000+ cover versions by fans -with one fan's cover being sampled by Eminem on his 2018 Kamikaze album. Donna has voiced Raising Heart from the "Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha" anime series since 2004, the iDroid in Metal Gear’s "Ground Zeroes" and "Phantom Pain"and starred in cult horror video games "Silent Hill 2" as sad Angela and "Silent Hill 3" as crazy Claudia.

In 2017, Nintendo’s "ARMS" added Doctor Coyle, a big boss voiced by Donna, to the delight of fans world wide and in August 2020, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered will be released, with Donna narrating each chapter and singing the opening and ending songs. In 2016, Donna formed quintet Ganime Jazz to perform her own hits from anime and games and well loved classics to audiences worldwide. Their debut album "Game + Anime" was released in 2017. In March 2020, the group released "Encore". Since 2017 Donna regularly performs with symphony orchestras around the world in "Metal Gear in Concert".https://www.donnaburke.com/

"Gee Donna, to think we used to tell you to shut up!" Donna's mother

Encore

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Donna Burke & Ganime Jazz - Game + Anime =

Size: 141,6 MB
Time: 60:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Calling To The Night (3:43)
02. Way In The Dark (4:30)
03. Sins Of The Father Quiet's Theme (Intro) (7:02)
04. Glassy Sky (4:46)
05. Snake Eater (5:48)
06. No One Can Save Me (Angela's Song) (4:45)
07. Firefly (5:33)
08. God And Man (6:12)
09. Moonless Starry Night (5:09)
10. A Quiet Night (3:20)
11. Morning Sky (5:02)
12. To Suffer Is To Love (Claudia's Song) (5:03)

This album features jazz arrangements of Donna Burke’s songs from Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy and Tokyo Ghoul, along with three new songs composed by Donna Burke and Shunsuke Itoh.

Tokyo 2016 saw the birth of singer and voice actress Donna Burke’s jazz band Ganime Jazz.
Donna loves performing her well-known songs, like “Heavens Divide” and “Sins of the Father” from the Metal Gear Solid game series, and “Glassy Sky” from anime Tokyo Ghoul, backed by an orchestra on a big stage. She has also longed, however, for a more free and intimate format, where the songs could be heard in a fresh, original way by game and anime fans, and jazz fans too.
This unique pairing of Australian and Japanese musicians results in a powerful show with comic relief provided by Donna between each song enjoyed by a diverse audience.

Discover a whole genre of compelling contemporary music through this unique Jazz quartet.

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