Rina Sawayama has revealed that she’s recorded “40 or 50” new songs over the last two years in an update posted to social media today (June 30).
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The musician and actor gave the update in a new video, in which she also shared news of work on the upcoming John Wick spin-off, Caine.
In the post, Sawayama said “we were long overdue for a catchup” and gave fans the update while she got ready, sharing her make-up routine as she did.
Sawayama said “contrary to popular belief” she had “actually been doing stuff” and joked that she hadn’t just been
Sawayama said she was currently on a break from shooting Caine, the John Wick spin-off movie. The film is a continuation of Cane’s story in the franchise, played by Donnie Yen, and his “unfinished business” with Sawayama’s character in the film, Akira. Sawayama said she had been training “really intensely for two months” for the part and is in the “best shape of [my] life”.
Sawayama also revealed she had finished shooting a new Apple TV series Prodigies, which she said was “so fun” before revealing “in between that” she had been “writing music for about two years, which is the longest I’ve really spent on a record.”
The artist explained she had done “so many trips around the world” to record, and then explained that she had made “maybe 40 to 50 songs” in total.
She also explained that she had recorded “lots of music with lots of different producers” while she was “trying to find the right person to work with.” She went on to say she had now found that person and her team, but didn’t reveal names at this stage.
The singer made her feature film debut in 2023’s John Wick: Chapter 4 as Shimazu Akira, the concierge at the Osaka Continental Hotel and the daughter of Hiroyuki Sanada’s Shimazu Koji, who is the hotel manager and a friend of Keanu Reeves’ lead character.
