Two-faced lovers at Bellevue Park (22 photos)

Two-faced lovers at Bellevue Park (22 photos)

How do you learn to sing the impossibly fast Japanese lyrics of Hatsune Miku's Uraomote Lovers ? If you're Reona Yoshino (shown), an international student at Algoma University, you rehearse a lot, all around Tokyo.

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How do you learn to sing the impossibly fast Japanese lyrics of Hatsune Miku's Uraomote Lovers?

If you're Reona Yoshino (shown), an international student at Algoma University, you rehearse a lot, all around Tokyo.

"I went to the karaoke spots in Japan and I practised," says Yoshino, who's been in Canada for five years and is currently studying business administration.

This weekend, Yoshino performed Uraomote Lovers flawlessly in the karaoke competition at the 6th Annual Cosplay Picnic in Bellevue Park.

It's a daunting accomplishment because the original song (in English, the title means 'Two-Faced Lovers') is performed by Vocaloid, a singing voice synthesizer that performs lyrics entered as text.

Hatsune Miku, the digital humanoid persona that sings the rapid-fire words of Ura-oomote Lovers, has become a veritable pop superstar in Japan.

Depicted as a 16-year-old girl with long turquoise pigtails, Miku performs at concerts as a 3D animated projection.

She has 2.5 million Facebook fans, more than 100,000 released songs, 613,000 uploaded YouTube videos and many more videos on Nico Nico Douga, Japan's equivalent of YouTube.

A video of Hatsune Miku performing Uraomote Lovers appears below, followed by a SooToday photo gallery from the 6th Annual Cosplay Picnic at the Bellevue Park bandshell.