The Blue Guitar Project & KMC collaboration initiative focuses on activities to provide students with the opportunity to use their artistic skills to create and design artwork for music projects and also workshops, recording sessions and performance to provide experience with songwriting, production, singing, and performing.
Also, as part of a global campaign (America, Europe, Asia, Australia), KMC is actively coordinating the “Blue Guitar Pass Social Media Campaign” in Japan. Performing artists pass the blue guitar and share inspirational messages with the youth. This iconic blue guitar will periodically appear in different cities in Japan, being played and photographed on stages and performances spaces. KMC hopes to partner with businesses and organizations to promote this campaign, and help raise awareness about the project nationwide.
This song “Rise Up” was written by young people for young people, to spread an inspirational message among themselves to never give up in pursuit of their ambitions, hopes and dreams. The original song was written in English, and now the second version is in Japanese. It's about an "Angel of Hope" receives the Blue Guitar from Grammy Award-winning artist and independent musician, Lisa Loeb, and carries it to Osaka Castle where she passes it to Maaya, a 9 yr. old up-and-coming musician. Also, it features a high school student singing lead vocal and elementary school kids singing backing vocals.
Enjoy the song and sing along if you like! (Rise Up song lyrics)
Some elementary school kids in Osaka were given the opportunity to submit artwork designs for the CD cover of the song "Rise Up." This is the design that was chosen!
