Kyo-san, nice to meet you. Akiko Wada respects black music as the most respected person for Ray Charles. She also performed her solo performance at her favorite Apollo Theater in 2008 and visited the orphanage in Harlem. (I had it translated by Google (^^ ♪)
She was a blues singer in Osaka before her debut, wasn't a gospel singer. By the way, many Japanese celebrate Christmas or other Christian celebration, but it doesn't mean we became Christian. It's the same as we go to temples, shrines when we think it's a right place to go for the occasion. Many of us are not in a specific religeon sects, but not atheists. We feel great power and believe that god exists in all things - including people around us. We are not forced to pray god and we can choose to whom and how to pray when we do. We can pray Japanese gods, Budha, Jesus, someone's soul etc. This must be strange, but that’s.why we are tolerant to other people's religeon. On the other hand, Japanese emperor, the highest priest of Shinto plays gods and nature for all of us evreyday.
初めて動画にコメントします! 海外の方にも日本人の多くが好きな曲というのは伝わるのだなといつもあげられている動画から分かってとてもおもしろく見させてもらっています! (English)I'm commenting on the video for the first time! I'm very interesting to see it from the videos that are always mentioned that many Japanese people like songs overseas!