Release Date: 2021/09/01
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At the beginning of the pandemic, veteran Japanese singer-songwriter Tokiko Kato wrote and released "Kono Te Ni Dakishimetai" on her YouTube channel, a song about the helplessness many of us have gone through. She called upon Nelson Babin-Coy, a bilingual lyricist behind English tracks for top Japanese artists like SEKAI NO OWARI and Yonezu Kenshi, to write the translated English lyrics. The song deeply resonated with Nelson, so he asked Tokiko Kato for permission to release his own version of the song, and thus "In These Arms" was born.
Nelson Babin-Coy is a singer-songwriter, cultural interpreter, and actor based in Tokyo. He has written official English lyrics and translations for some of Japan's biggest artists, including BE:FIRST, Kenshi Yonezu, King Gnu, SEKAI NO OWARI, and the English version of Foorin team E's "Paprika," and he serves as lyric translator and English supervisor for NHK's *tiny desk concerts JAPAN*. After years of bringing Japanese music and culture to the world through other artists' words, he is now sending his own voice out into the world.
BCMC Records