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Ann Sally made her debut as a singer-songwriter in 2001 with the album 「Voyage」. She has since released a series of highly regarded CDs, while also working as a medical doctor in Japan. She has contributed several songs for Japanese TV commercials and movies, and has performed all over Japan at concert halls, festivals and venues like Blue Note and Billboard.

Ann lived in New Orleans for several years while doing hypertension research. In 2003 she released two albums, 「Day Dream」 and 「Moon Dance」 simultaneously from two different record companies, which is rare. She next released the album 「Brand New Orleans」, recorded with local musicians in 2005 while she was in New Orleans. After returning to Japan in 2007, she released 「kokorouta」, and she contributed the song 「Time traveler」 to the Nintendo DS game 「Professor Layton and the Unwound Future」, produced by Level 5 in 2008. https://www.laytonseries.com/unwoundfuture/
In 2009, Ann sang the memorial theme song for the 60th anniversary of Kouhaku Uta Gassen, a famous national TV program in Japan that airs every New Year’s Eve. In 2010, she released the album 「fo:rest」. In 2012, she sang the theme song 「Mother’s Song」 for the internationally acclaimed animated movie 「Wolf Children」. After that, she released the album 「Mori no Shinryosho...featuring Ann Sally」 in 2013 and 「Bon Temps」 in 2017. Recently, one of her songs was featured in the movie 「ano hi no organ」 https://www.anohi-organ.com/.

Her songs, which combine observations on her everyday life with a mellow, rich singing voice, continue to capture the hearts of listeners around the world.