On January 17, 2015, Origa died at age 44 due to breast cancer.

2015-01-19 Update: Origa’s Facebook page confirmed the news and announced a new album was recorded and will be released in 2015:

This was reported by the voice actress Jenya on her blog and Twitter account.

She was a long-time friend with Yoko Kanno, had a beautiful voice, incredible vocal skills and will be terribly missed.

She sang the following songs for Yoko Kanno:

– Moon (∀ Gundam: The Concert, 2000)

– inner universe (Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex O.S.T., 2003)

– rise (Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. 2, 2004)

– perdesky cloyn (Ashura-jo no Hitomi O.S.T., 2005)

– 21th Century Was Desired (JR CM, 200? (prior to 2006))

– player (Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society O.S.T., 2006)

– date of rebirth (Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society O.S.T., 2006)

– Exaelitus (CM Yoko, 2007)

– Cradle, Cradle (The Songwreath, 2008)

– Yoga (Sekisui House Shawood CM, 2012)

She performed live with Yoko Kanno at the ∀ Gundam concert, the Ragnarok Online 2 concert in Seoul and the Tanasonic concert.

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