Person: Himeka

Himeka was born July 20 1981 as Catherine St. Onge and is an anime song singer of French Canadian descent. While fluent in English and her native French, she is moderately proficient in Japanese. Her stage name, Himeka, comes from a character she created in a fictional story she wrote when she was 13 years old.

Born in Quebec, St. Onge was very interested in theater and music. At the age of 12, St. Onge taught herself English by singing Disney songs. Soon after at 13, she began writing her own stories in which Himeka was the main character. Her interest in Japanese culture started at the age of 15 when she saw an episode of the anime series Sailor Moon. In 2008 St. Onge moved to Japan in order to pursue her singing career. She was the winner of the Second Annual Animax Anison Grand Prix, that gathers aspiring singers from all over Japan for the chance to make a professional debut and sing a theme song in an anime television show. Her debut single "Asu e no Kizuna", released on May 27, 2009, is the opening theme to the anime adaptation of the Playstation 3 video game, Valkyria Chronicles. The single debuted at #28 on the Oricon single charts.