Mayuka Thaïs Biography
Mayuka Thais is a singer-songwriter, artist, voice over artist, art educator, and edutainer from the United States. She is best known as a bilingual singer and actress on the popular children’s show Shimajiro.
Mayuka Thaïs Age
She was born on 25 September 1979, in San Francisco, California, United States of America. Thais is 44 years old as of September 2023.
Mayuka Thaïs Education
Thas received her BFA in Fine Arts Painting and A.C.T. (Artists, Community, and Teaching) from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 2007.
Mayuka Thaïs Family
Thas was born in San Francisco to a Caucasian American mother, Teri Suzanne, and a Japanese father.
Mayuka Thaïs Career
From the age of five, she worked in the Japanese edutainment industry as a studio singer, actress, and voice over artist for bilingual multi-media edutainment products for Nippon Columbia. For 13 years, she honed her acting skills at the National Children’s Castle’s Aoyama Theatre in the round, bilingual Performing Arts Group. Thas won the Tokyo Metropolitan Government art award at the age of ten. Her most notable role was as the main singer and actress on the popular children’s program Shimajiro.Thas is a professor at Otis College of Art and Design.
Thas recorded Minna De Merry Christmas with multiracial children for Nippon Columbia when he was five years old. Thais has worked on 14 albums and numerous singles to date. Thas, her sister Kunimi Andrea, and her mother Teri Suzanne recorded Genki Genki Utaou Nontan’s bilingual Christmas album for Nippon Columbia in 2004. Geoff Levin of People! produced her album Tusks & Horns in May 2014 with the help of contributors to her Pledge Music campaign. Mayu Wakisaka, The Watanabes, Nesian Mystik, and Geoff Levin have all performed with Thas.The song “Song Without You” by Thas appears in the film “Half Way to Hell” directed by Richard Friedman.
Thas won the Tokyo Metropolitan Government art award at the age of ten. Thas’s painting of a life-size Asian elephant was shown at the Palos Verdes Art Center in 2007 as part of a group show curated by Scott Canty called The Circus Comes to Town. Thas performed her song Yamayuri no Kimochi at the Akioota International Music Festival in August 2015 for the 70th war memorial in Hiroshima. Thas composed the melody, the children of Hiroshima wrote the lyrics, poet Arthur Binard turned the lyrics into poetry, and Scott Nagatani played the piano. The song has become the official song for the Akioota International Music Festival’s annual war memorial.
Thas collaborated with the non-profit program Youth Speak Collective students in the San Fernando Valley to cultivate their songwriting skills for Rockband 101 in order to help disadvantaged youth find their own voices. Billy Hawn, a drummer and percussionist, stepped in to help teach, inspire, and arrange music for the students. Thas collaborated with a non-profit organization Elemotion to paint a life-size baby Asian elephant with students from International School of the Sacred Heart to help raise awareness of the plight of Asian elephants. Thas was one of two finalists on RuPaul’s Skin Wars: Fresh Paint episode 2 in 2016. A Skin Wars spin-off designed specifically for artists who have never body painted before.
Mayuka Thaïs Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.
Mayuka Thaïs Songs
Thanks Santa (1995)
The Divine (2004)
When Elephants Cry (2010)
Hope Is My Friend (2011)
All We Gotta Give (2011)
The Great Serengeti (2011)
Tohorā He Waiata (The Whale Song) (2012)
Hearts Don’t Lie (2013)
Let the Wind Blow (2014)
Yamayuri no Kimochi (2015)
I Will Sing For You (2020)
The Yamayuri Song (2020)
Just One More Time (2020)
Mayuka Thaïs Films
2016 Skin Wars: Fresh Paint
2011 Kids Station Utabako
2003–2005 Shimajiro
2002 Action 8
1998 Mrs. Santa’s Doki Doki Family