In February, EmpathP (also known as Aki Glancy) announced in a live stream about Dex and Daina that she was planning to hold a concert featuring western VOCALOIDs. In the months following, she was hard at work getting things together and she’s still working on everything. Currently, Aki is working on getting a Kickstarter up to help fund the project… but she was able to give us the list of VOCAMERICA performers today!
This announcement came via the Vocaloid Amino app, which Aki has talked about before in a YouTube video. As promised, following her on VA (click here to go straight to her profile) gives you a heads-up as to what’s going on with VOCAMERICA.
“As we get closer to June and our Kickstarter I have a new important announcement to make regarding who will be performing at Our concert. Our official final performer line up is:
1.) Dex
2.) Daina
3.) Maika
4.) Aiko Kikyuune
5.) Namida (Empathy Studios mascot)
6.) Ruby”
About the Performers
Several of the names may be familiar to some fans while others may not know any of the voices listed. Below, you’ll find information on each of the performers.
DEX
DEX is a male English VOCALOID 4 voice bank voiced by Kenji-B, and is part of the DEX and DAINA voice duo. While the two can be purchased separately, they were made to work together and have designs that also follow a single theme as well.
DAINA
DAINA is the other half of the DEX and DAINA duo. She is voiced by EmpathP and is a female VOCALOID 4 voice bank.
MAIKA
MAIKA is a Spanish VOCALOID 3 voice bank capable of many different languages thanks to extra phonemes. Even her official demos show her singing in Catalan, Portuguese, and Italian, as well as in Spanish. It’s unknown at this time if she will be featured singing in Spanish, English, or both.
Aiko Kikyuune
Aiko Kikyuune is part of the Project UTAU XYZ UTAU production group. Voiced by MystSaphyr, she is a bilingual UTAU capable of Japanese and English. You can find more about the project here.
Please note the second song uses Baionoto Kenji as well as Aiko.
Namida
Namida used to be an UTAU but was retired. While those who own her voice bank can still use her, she is no longer available for download or purchase. Instead of completely getting rid of her, EmpathP turned her into the mascot for her record label: Empathy Studios. Namida is also a bilingual Japanese and English voice bank.
RUBY
RUBY is an English VOCALOID 4 female vocal by Power FX and voiced by Misha.