Donna Burke
Background
Donna Burke is a Western Australian singer, actress and lyricist who has lived in Tokyo since 1996.
She first came to prominence in 2001 acting in Silent Hill 2 (Angela) and Silent Hill 3 (Claudia). That same year she performed “After All” on the √ Gundam movie soundtrack, getting to work with legendary composer Yoko Kanno for the first time.
In 2010, the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker theme song, “Heavens Divide”, brought her millions of new fans. In 2012, Hideo Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear Solid, asked her to sing “Sins of the Father” for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which she recorded in L.A. at Capitol Studio in April 2013.
In 2015, Konami commissioned Donna to produce five new covers for the Metal Gear Solid Vocal Album, including “Snake Eater” and “Quiet’s Theme”. That same year, her song “Glassy Sky” from the anime Tokyo Ghoul became a sudden worldwide hit with over 20,000 covers on YouTube and 50 million views.
Since 2017 she has toured with “Metal Gear in Concert”, performing with orchestras in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Osaka and every year with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Donna works as a lyricist for video-game music composers including Nobuo Uematsu, Kumi Tanioka, Go Shiina, Yoko Shimamura, Akihira Honda and Kevin Penkin.
Since 2009, Donna has performed with the Tokyo Comedy Store Improvazilla Show.
Donna’s voice-acting credits include ARMS (Doctor Coyle) Fitboxing / Fitboxing 2 (Laura), Metal Gear Solid (iDroid) and Magical Lyrical Nanoha (Raising Heart), but her most famous voice job is her English announcements on the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka and Kumamoto, which she has been doing since 2004.
Donna is developing a new TV series about high school Cosplayers and producing the soundtrack for it.
“Spectacular vocalist.”
“Beautiful...just beautiful!”
“Hugely captivating!”
As a Recording Artist
2020 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Opening and Ending Theme songs
2019 “Hanging by a Thread” Unofficial MGS movie theme
2018 Ganime Jazz “Game+Anime=“ CD
2015 Konami MGS The Phantom Pain “Sins of the Father” 7.5 MILLION VIEWS YOUTUBE
2015 Konami MGS Vocal CD, “Quiet’s Theme“, “The Best Is Yet To Come“, “Love’s Theme“, “Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesterday“ & “Snake Eater“
2015 Tokyo Ghoul 2 “Glassy Sky” 19 MILLION VIEWS YOUTUBE
2015 Rayark Implosion Theme song “Way in the Dark” NHK Little Charo 2 Sayonara
2010 Konami Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker “When Heaven’s Divide” 4.6 MILLION VIEWS YOUTUBE
2009 BandaiNamcoGamesGodEater“GodandMan”489KVIEWS
2008 Square Enix Last Remnant “Journey’s End”
2003 Square Enix, Final Fantasy, “Crystal Chronicles“, “Moonless Starry Night“, “Morning Sky“
2001 Turn a Gundam“AfterAll”
As a Lyricist
2020 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles "Morning Sky", "Moonless Starry Night"
2017 Final Fantasy 15 XP “Choosing Hope”
2015 Implosion “Way in the Dark”
2013 Resident Evil “At the End of a Long Escape”
2011 Square Enix DISSIDIA012 “Final Fantasy”
2010 The Last Ranker “Born to Survive”
2010 Bandai Games “God Eater”
2010 NHK Little Charo 2 “Sayonara”
2009 Capcom “Bio Hazard Dark Side Chronicles” (Sleeping Beauty)
2009 Capcom “Last Ranker”
2009 Bandai Namco Games God Eater “God and Man”
2008 Square Enix Last Remnant “Journey’s End”
2007 Haibanae Renmei ”Wondering”
2006 Konami Elebits “The Smile Of You”
2004 Konami “Star Gate Heaven”
2003 Square Enix, Final Fantasy, “Crystal Chronicles“, “Moonless Starry Night“, “Morning Sky“
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Interview with Donna Burke
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