Love Is is the first EP released by British-Japanese musician MiChi, released on 22 December 2010. It is her first non-single release since her debut album Up to You was released in 2009. All four of the songs featured on the EP are used in various commercials and advertisements. The title song was sent to Japanese radio stations as the first single on 19 November, with the music video premiering in early December. It also contains a cover of The Offspring's "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)", MiChi's first cover song since 2009's "Kiss Kiss xxx". This makes it her seventh cover song, following her cover versions of songs by The Spice Girls, Nirvana, Avril Lavigne, Queen, Des'ree and Fergie.

Music video

The music video for the song was filmed using stop motion techniques, and was filmed backwards. The video features MiChi doing everyday things such as sleeping and sitting on a couch while crew members build the rest of the set behind her. It starts with the words 'MiChi' and 'LOVE is.' being spelled out on a fireplace and MiChi entering her apartment through a door. It then depicts her moving around the apartment while random people come and add furniture and decorations. the video ends with MiChi sitting on a wooden chair in a room full of candles, balloons and large glass bottles.

Love Is... is the name of a comic strip created by New Zealand cartoonist Kim Casali (née Grove) in the 1960s. The cartoons originated from a series of love notes that Grove drew for her future husband, Roberto Casali. They were published in booklets in the late 1960s before appearing in strip form in a newspaper in 1970, under the pen name "Kim". They were syndicated soon after and the strip is syndicated worldwide today by Tribune Media Services. One of her most famous drawings, "Love Is...being able to say you are sorry", published on February 9, 1972, was marketed internationally for many years in print, on cards and on souvenirs. The beginning of the strip coincided closely with the 1970 film Love Story. The film's signature line is "Love means never having to say you're sorry." At the height of their popularity in the 1970s the cartoons were earning Casali £4-5 million annually.

Roberto Casali was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1975 and Kim stopped working on the cartoon to spend more time with him. Casali commissioned London-based British cartoonist Bill Asprey to take over the writing and drawing of the daily cartoons for her, under her pen name. Asprey has produced the cartoon continuously since 1975. Upon her death in 1997, Casali's son Stefano took over Minikim, the company which handles the intellectual rights.

This is the discography of the Cantopop singer Sammi Cheng including a list of singles and cover songs.

Studio albums

Concert albums

Singles

This is a list of all her singles throughout her music career.

Cover Songs

This is a list of all Sammi Cheng's cover songs.

References

Love Is may refer to:

Albums

Songs

"Michi" (道, Road) is the twenty-third single by Japanese pop band Exile. It was released on February 14, 2007 and was limited to 100,000 copies. The song has been certified as being downloaded more than 1,000,000 times as a ringtone by the RIAJ, and more than 250,000 times as a full-length download to cellphones.

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DVD

Musical personnel

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Michiko Sellars (born 7 April 1985), known by her stage name MiChi, is a Japanese-British pop singer. She began her career as an independent artist, but later signed to Sony Music Entertainment.

Biography

Early life and Career beginnings

Michiko was born in Bromsgrove, England to an English father and a Japanese mother. She moved to Kobe, Japan at the age of two in 1987, but returned to England in 1995 after the Great Hanshin earthquake. Determined to be a singer, she performed in an acoustic duo before returning to Japan when she was 18. The following year, she met Tomokazu Matsuzawa, producer for acts such as Mika Nakashima, Miliyah Kato, Soulhead, and Chemistry. The pair worked together for three years developing her talent before MiChi entered Japan's dance club scene. In March 2007, she released the track "Surrender" on a dance compilation titled Freedom House Mode Collection. It was followed a year later with her independently released English language album Michi Madness," which entered the Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart, but only peaked at number 148.