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Luna Haruna, Mashiro Ayano, GARNiDELiA Perform at Singapore's Sakura Matsuri Event

Anime Festival Asia announced on Monday that Luna Haruna, Mashiro Ayano, and GARNiDELiA will perform at AFA's Sakura Matsuri: Anime Garden event in Singapore on March 18.

Haruna was as a finalist at the 4th Animax Anison Grand Prix in 2011. Her debut single "Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau" in 2012 served as the ending theme song for the second season of Fate/Zero. She has since performed theme songs for Sword Art Online, Sword Art Online II, Monogatari Series Second Season, High School Fleet, Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, and Urahara. She also performed the theme song for the Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization video game. She released her first album OVERSKY in August 2013, and released her second album Candy Lips in March 2015. She released her third album, LUNARIUM, last June.

Ayano debuted in 2014 with her single "ideal white," which served as the opening theme song for the first season of the Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works anime. She also performed the theme songs for Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation and D.Gray-man Hallow, and debuted her "NewLook" song as the first ending theme song for the Re:CREATORS television anime, which premiered last April. She debuted her first studio album, WHITE PLACE, in October 2016. Her new single, "starry," shipped on January 17, and the title track served as the opening theme song for the Record of Grancrest War anime.

GARNiDELiA consists of composer Yoshinori Abe (Toku) and vocalist Mai Mizuhashi (MARiA). The duo first worked together on "Color," the opening theme song of the Freezing anime, although they had not yet made the GARNiDELiA unit name at that point. The duo formally debuted in 2014 with their single "Ambiguous," which was used as the opening theme for the Kill la Kill anime. The group has since performed theme songs for anime such as The irregular at magic high school, Gundam: Reconguista in G, Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation, Qualidea Code, and The irregular at magic high school The Movie: The Girl Who Summons the Stars. The duo recently performed the ending theme song for the upcoming Fate/Apocrypha anime, and also performed the opening theme song for the Anime-Gataris and Beatless anime.

The Sakura Matsuri: Anime Garden will take place at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on March 17 to 18. Attendance to the event is free. Aside from the concerts, celebrity cosplayers will attend the event, and the event will also host Pokémon events, and a film screening of an as-yet unannounced film. Singers May'n and Mika Kobayashi will perform on the event's first day on March 17.