Favorite Artists Ever

[sora-kara]

For Asian artists, there are a few:

Maaya Sakamoto
There is a little pocket on my heart, and it is closed with a whimsical button and a colourful patch with large stitches. My love for Maaya lives in there, and I keep it to myself, and a select few people who are very close to me.

After Maaya, there are many who I love now, then, and going on. They fall in no particular order, as their importance and influence on me vary during my state of being:
Sa Ding Ding
Hajime Chitose
Utada Hikaru
HALCALI

These follow somewhere close after:
Ayumi Hamasaki
Koda Kumi
Bonnie Pink
Lee Jung Hyun
Kagrra,
Takasugi Satomi
Core of Soul/Love

For those outside of Asia, there are some that helped raise me, like The Chieftains, Elton John and James Galway. For that, they are given eternal respect.
The artists that I discovered as my own personality and taste developed would be:
VNV Nation
Faith and the Muse (although I've grown apart from their newer material)
Afro Celt Sound System
Sam Sparro
Kate Havnevik

and these are just the ones that really have on-going use in my musical diet.