Where are you from?
It’s an easy question
But not for me
Here, there or nowhere, I don’t know
I come from different places
Mix of words
Mix of norms
I wonder if I’m all mixed up
Am I more like my dad
Or more like my mom
Or maybe neither
Where do I belong?
Who am I?
Made up my mind
Won’t worry no more
I don’t have to be like anyone else
Don’t define me
Don’t confine me
I am ME
Where’s your home?
It’s an easy question
But not for me
Here, there or nowhere, I don’t know
I lived in different places
In the East
In the West
You can see that I’m all mixed up
More like him
Or More like her
Or maybe neither
Where do I belong?
Who am I?
Made up my mind
Won’t worry no more
I don’t want to be like anyone else
Don’t define me
Don’t confine me
I am ME
I ain’t your average kid
I’m hard to figure out
But I got so much more to offer the world, you will see
I found a place where I can be who I am
I found a friend whom I can be who I am
That’s my home
Found my home
I am ME
Made up my mind
Won’t worry no more
I don’t have to be like anyone else in the world
So I just made up my mind
Won’t worry no more
I want to be just who I am, who I am
Don’t define me
Don’t confine me
I am ME
- Lyricist
Hiroko Nagata Bell
- Composer
YUSHIO
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I am ME (feat. Minori Therrien Imai & Yajitomo)
YUSHIO
Here's to all the misfits around the globe.
One girl questioned...I am not Japanese enough, I am not American enough. Then, who am I?
A TCK's journey to find peace with her mixed identity became a poem.
When that poem reached a musician in Tokyo, she instantly connected to the words through her own lens of having been a misfit in school. Then the poem became a song overnight.
Four artists who are also mothers, collaborated between the United States and Japan to deliver this song.
Listen.
And you may find your own story within it.
iTunes Store • R&B/Soul TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 29 • 10 Jun 2021Artist Profile
YUSHIO
Yushio was inspired by music because of her father, who is a guitarist. By the time she was in high school, she began to seriously pursue a career in music. She graduated from Musashino Arts University with a Degree of Visual Communications Design. After 2013, Yushio worked as a freelance music producer, composer and lyricist for other artists, including famous Japanese idols and voice-over talents. Simultaneously, she continued to produce her own songs which had a theme focused on families and children.Currently, as a co-founder of Okannooto, she collaborates with an extensive variety of artists, such as musical singers, storytellers, and illustrators from around the world.Recent collaborations lead to completion of English songs, bilingual nursery rhymes, music for picture books, and songs for children and local after school programs. In 2022, she released a new album "Yushiouta+"
YUSHIOの他のリリース
Minori Therrien Imai
Yajitomo
YUSHIO RECORDS
