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Ayane Yamazaki (山﨑彩音, 26th January 1999 – ) is a Japanese Pop Music Artist and singer-songwriter. Some critisians relates her with city pop, Shibuya-kei and dream pop, although her genre of music is flluid.

Ayane started her musical career around the age of 15 at music venues in Tokyo and Kanagawa. In 2015, she released her first EP Yer from the me and baby music label. The following year, 17-years-old Ayane became the yougest singer-songwriter ever to performe at the Fuji Rock Festival. She made her major label debut from the For Life Music Entertainment in 2017, then her worldwide debut from AWAL in 2019 and received good reputation in the indie music scene.

Artistry
Ayane said she wanted audiences to be free to interpret her lyrics. Until around 2017, most of the Ayane's songwriting was lyrics-first, but she adopted music-first approach for some songs on METROPOLIS released on 2018. Around the same time, the songwriter, who had composed with acoustic guitars, started to compose with GarageBand to avoid her habits of composing. The singer stated that her English pronunciation, which would never sound like a native speaker, could even be an advantage in the music world.

Ayane's favoriate artist is Maki Nomiya as well as Taeko Onuki, the original artist of ‘Mahou o Oshiete’, which she coverd in 2020. She recalls that it was her teens when she inspired by Bill Evans and came to write songs with fewer notes. This self-taught guitarist hopes would Shintaro Sakamoto of Yura Yura Teikoku teach her. She is also a fun of idol groups from Johnny's Entertainment such as Kanjani Eight and V6. However, she is inspired more by Haruki Murakami than music. Murakami's Kafka on the Shore she read on the age of 11 was the original source of her creativity.