Youmi Kimura is a Japanese singer and lyre performer. She was born in Osaka, Japan, and became famous in 2001 for her song Always With Me, which served as the closing theme to the popular 2001 anime film Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki.
Kimura and Miyazaki had great admiration for each other's works. She was so moved by his 1997 film Princess Mononoke, that she wrote a letter to him, enclosed with a copy of her album. Miyazaki wrote her back and mentioned to her about a film he was currently wor...
