This beautiful singer's name is Rimi Natsukawa. I'm simply touched by her voice. She's from Okinawa, so she sings in Uchinaguchi (the Okinawan dialect) and not in Japanese, though the two languages have several commonalities.
The song is called "Wasurete wa ikenai mono" which means "Things not to be forgotten." It's a lament about lost love and missing the things taken for granted (I think). I studied the Tokyo dialect for a couple of years at SFSU, so translating this song might take me a long while because I don't have a Uchinaguchi-Nihongo dictionary in Romaji, yet. Luckily, it's subtitled so I'll be spending the next seven years figuring it out...Enjoy:
Other songs performed by Rimi-san:
Tinsagu nu Hana Traditional Folk Song
Irayoi Tsukiyohama This one makes me cry, but I don't know why.
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