JubyPhonic

JubyPhonic (also known as Juby) is an English speaking Utaite, as well as a professional voice actress and vocalist. She began singing on her channel May 29th, 2012, summer before her last year of high school-- just for some summer fun. But also because social anxiety & panic attacks were making it difficult for her to continue to perform onstage--and she refused to totally give up on something she loved and had been doing since she was little. The arts, creating--art, acting & singing--had always helped her cope, gave her life. So filled with trepidation, she closed her eyes & just gave it a go. As luck would have it, 8 years later she's recorded now more than 230 covers & reaches nearing a million subscribers worldwide. JubyPhonic's YouTube channel has well over a third of a billion views. Juby wanted to give more visibility to the many young 'bedroom composers' she loves, that speak eloquently through music on so many human, and sometimes difficult topics. She began recording covers, with the hope that singing these works with English lyrics would reach more people around the globe & build appreciation for these heartfelt songs. Since 2017, Juby's YouTube covers of VOCALOID & anime have been translated & subbed by fans in almost 40 languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. There are even a few translations done in Esperanto. Besides recording cover vocals and writing her own translyrics/ lyrics, Juby also provides her own subs, creates or directs some of the artwork, makes cover harmonies, mixes audio and edits video. When time allows, she enjoys collaborating on original projects and re-mixes with other artists, composers and musicians. Her real hope though is in time to do more of her own original songs and re-mixes. Although she often does most of her work alone (excepting the rare duet or collab) in 2015 she started doing more elaborate projects and artistically directing her own paid collaborations, now made possible with the support of her fans through Patreon.com. These time consuming projects can take a few months to a few years to complete. She has also collaborated on projects with various professional & non-professional groups worldwide. Juby often balances directing around 35+ project collaborations on the back burner--that's besides the many she is working on, at various stages of progress. But on the whole, the majority of Juby's covers are typically done in a tough, grueling work week. Her near 100 hr work week often includes college schoolwork & any professional voice acting jobs, overseeing her channel business & various projects, PLUS all the work that goes into 'the cover of the week' which often includes: research/lyric writing/vocals & harmony rehearsals & recordings/mixing/subbing/video editing/managing artwork & arrangers, composers & musicians, rights/social media sites & patreon announcements/mp3 downloads or digital releases...and more. Whew! And depending on the problems that surface on that cover, Juby may have a few or all 24/7 pedal-to-the-metal, hard crunch days before a release, before she can finally collapse into a heap to rest...and start all over again. Being a YouTube artist isn't easy. It's a lot of hard work with little to no time off. Juby tries to take breaks when looming burnout & mental health issues become a little too real. Her voice has a characteristic stability, clarity, and brilliance along with a certain bounce to it. She is also known for being emotionally expressive and touching her fans' hearts. A soprano with a wide vocal range, she records in bright straight pop tones--contemporary pop. Her signature VOCALOID/ anime style varies from piercingly resonant in high pop/rock/electronic, to a gentle, intimate voice for acoustic & jazz covers in the mid-tones. Juby has been acting and singing onstage plus had vocal training since young. Her theatrical background and voice acting experience contributes to her ability to "become" the character in her covers. Her skill with incorporating idioms and correct pronunciation/syncopation in her Japanese to English translations has made her translyrics favorites of many of her fans. Juby has received praise not just from global but Japanese fans, as well as some Japanese producers when she covered their works. Juby has also written the original lyrics to new compositions, in collaboration with composers--some were Japanese producers. Out of over 230 released covers, about half have well over one million views. A few of her most popular English covers to date: Drop Pop Candy (17.7M views), Bad Apple (11.0M), Game of Life (10.9M), Mind Brand (10M), Lost One's Weeping (9.9M), Echo (8.4M), World is Mine (8.1M), Childish War (7.8M), Aishite Aishite Aishite (7.7M), Wildfire (6.7M), Witch Hunt (6.5M), Miss Wanna Die (6.2M). (June 2020) YouTube carries the majority of her covers. SoundCloud has over half of her covers plus different versions, acoustic, experimental collaborations with new composers, new re-mixes and mashups. NicoNico carries less than half of her covers plus several covers not available on her YouTube or Soundcloud channels, such as her cover of "Namae no nai Kaibutsu" from Psycho-Pass Nv.gif, which made Nico rankings; and "Deja Vu" by CircusP & CrusherP Nv.gif done with the Japanese STUDIO GUIANA. Through Asian fans, JubyPhonic covers also share an up-to-date presence on BiliBili (Chinese YouTube). She supports her fan's creative expression and all new creative works in general, thus her translyrics and covers are available for use as long as she (and the original work) is properly credited and used in projects for fun (non profit). She depicts herself with pink/reddish hair, often with a yellow hoodie with long rabbit ears. Her pet and avatar is a rabbit in pink and white. She sees the rabbit as a symbolic invitation. In 2015 she branched out-- she ran her first "Skochbox Summer Cover Contest". And she had also already started streaming some fun/ serious talk shows with utaite friends, sometimes bringing in a guest, & always encouraging fan participation, Q&A. For 4 years The Unholy Quartet--Juby, Rachie, Kura, Anthong--did occasional streams on YouTube, dependent on their availability. The 'utaite friends talk' group begun by Juby had their own avatar, social media sites on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Discord. In 2019 The Unholy Quartet reorganized & morphed into Yonaka Tea Time, a monthly podcast organized around human interest & topics appealing to the anime/ VOCALOID community led now by Juby, Rachie & Anthong (Kura was short on time). Yonaka Tea Time also has its own social media plus now is published on multiple sites. On remote occasions, Juby also joins forces with her sister Genevieve, a voice actress like herself, to do podcasts on all things anime: shows, manga, conventions, voice acting. In May 2019 JubyPhonic released her first digital album of covers to buy or listen to on streaming music services. It was a compilation of her Circus P covers called "Welcome to the Circus". A voice actor & vocalist, Juby has been working professionally for Sentai Filmworks for over 7 years. She has done leading & supporting roles in over 90 shows to date--this year she'll hit the 100 dubbed shows mark. (June 2020). See TRIVIA below for a few notable roles & award nominations or just check out anime news network under her real name --Juliet Simmons-- for a more complete list.