 Her performance attracted the attention of anime director Gorō Miyazaki.Toshio Suzuki was also very impressed when he listened to her demo version of Bette Midler's "The Rose"

On June 7, 2006, she finally released a song called .This song was used in a film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, "Tales from Earthsea", in which she also voices the character Theru.