Hello, everyone! Welcome to my ZARD fansite!
I've been a fan of them for 2 years now. Hope we can get along!
You can comment on my guestbook for lyric translation requests!
ZARD started off as a five-member band, but then eventually became a one-woman unit of just Izumi Sakai. Once upon a time, she was just a normal girl with the dream to become a singer, but then she quit her job and moved to Tokyo! She was scouted on the street, and then became a model under Stardust Promotion. Lucky for her, Stardust Promotion was kind of partnered with the music company Being (In the sense that if someone under Stardust wanted to sing, they'd often go to Being. Keiko Utoku did that too by the way)! Home to the world-famous B'z! Izumi auditioned to become a backup singer for B.B. Queens, which she failed (Because like, can you really picture her in the back of the stage singing Odoru Ponpokorin?! Uh, actually, that would be cute, actually.... BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT lol). However, Daiko Nagato was impressed with her skills so he was like "Why don't I put you in a band?!"
And thus, ZARD was formed. I guess they weren't extremely popular since debut, but they got really popular with Makenaide, and Yureru Omoi, the album it was in, won the Folk Rock category in the Japan Gold Disc Award, which is HUGE! They remained pretty popular through the 90s. I mean, even in the international J-pop fan community, they were very popular! They tried to tarnish her image with false info about her modeling career under Stardust (F the tabloids!), but that didn't stop her from making music!
With the new rise of Avex in the mid to late 90's, ZARD's place in the charts weren't as high as they were before, but she still kept on making music until she died. And today, people around the world still listen to her music a lot!
I will be making pages for each of the albums. You can listen to each of them on Spotify. As far as I know, you can only listen to them on Spotify lol. Also, most ZARD vids can be found on Bilibili, because YouTube always takes down the vids with her songs in it ;(
I used to post my Being translations on my Being page on Vistaserv (You can see the front page through Wayback Machine but unfortunately, the site closed down. So, I will repost my I can't let go and Itsuka wa... translations here soon! And also other translations from now on, right here!!
Wezard Blog (This guy's posts are great)
The ZARD Reddit (A really nice message board)