From July 2009 for eight years, Anka Ariyasu has been active as a member of Momoiro Clover Z, and even after graduating from the group she has continued to release music and tour under her solo name. She will be holding her second Billboard Live Tour. In the previous Jazz Note 2024, as a new challenge, she presented a jazz-focused stage. Teaming up with pianist Takeshi Obayashi, and with bassist Shinpei Ogawa and drummer Aron Benjamin based in New York, the band performed authentic jazz standards and original songs. This time, after about a year, the performance will make a major shift from the last, delivering a solo piano-driven stage with Anka Ariyasu herself on piano. She will also embark on a singing-and-piano tour this October, visiting live houses and halls in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, and returns with even greater refinement of her expressive power.

＜Anka Ariyasu Comment＞
One of my goals and dreams has been to hold a piano-and-singing live show called “Piano Note.”
The title is read as “Piano Note.”
This time as well, I’m sure I’ll be facing the piano with all my might, and it will be a serious challenge.

I am very honored to be on the Billboard Live stage again after a year.
Unlike Jazz Note, this time there won’t be anyone to help me (laughs).
On stage, it will be just me and a grand piano.
Ah… there may be seats where I’m hidden by the piano and hard to see, please understand (laugh).

I’d like to tell my younger self, who once dreamed, “I want to be able to play and sing on the piano someday.”
On Valentine’s Day, a live performance delivered with 88 keys and my voice—please do come.