Ayana (彩菜, Ayana born December 29) is a female Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1999 as the singer of the opening and ending themes to Key's visual novel Kanon. In 2000, she formed the two-member group Blue Velvet with Shūichi Aoki. She later became a guest vocalist for I've Sound and appeared at the Nippon Budokan on October 15, 2005 at I've concert "I've in Budokan 2005: Open the Birth Gate". She sung two songs there: a remix version of "Verge" and the normal version of "Last regrets". In 2006, Ayana sung the remix version of Kanon's opening and ending themes on the album Kanon Last regrets / Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho. On June 20, 2007, she held her first live concert at Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. In October 2007, Ayana reported on her blog that she was married and was pregnant.