Kirigaya Raveanne Returns to Singing After Months Away, Teases a Surprise Announcement
A power cut knocked the unarchived karaoke stream offline partway through, and she said she would rest until about Friday.
AKA VIRTUAL — Kirigaya Raveanne sang on stream on Sunday for the first time in months, telling viewers early in a two-hour karaoke session that she was rusty and using the night to retrain her voice. “Honestly, it’s been millions of years since I last sang properly,” she said, adding that she had not sung for months, even off stream, and apologized in advance if it went badly.
The Indonesian streamer, of AKA Virtual, called it the third day of her streaming streak and ran it as an unarchived stream, one not kept as a replay. She opened with a song by IU and sang along with the original recording of “Out We Go, On We Go,” stopping often to say how hard singing felt after a meal and how her back and stomach ached. Partway in, the power went out and the stream dropped; when she returned she said the outage had come out of nowhere and that she had used the wait to have a sweet drink. Later she sang a sad song, “Within the Dream,” and “Think of Me” from The Phantom of the Opera, and tried “What Am I Fighting For” at a viewer’s request, saying she had never heard it before.
“Honestly, it’s been millions of years since I last sang properly.” — Kirigaya Raveanne, opening the stream
She told viewers twice that a surprise announcement and teaser trailer were coming that day, but would not say what it was. Near the end she offered only a clue, humming a short melody she rendered as “tung treng ting ting,” and insisted it was a big hint.
Chat cheered her on through the rough patches. “Look, guys. She really can do it,” one viewer wrote. Another, arriving late, said they had come back to be greeted by opera, and a third signed off with “Thank you for doing your best, Via.” No Super Chats were recorded.
Closing, she said in English, “It’s good to be back singing,” and added that she was doing her best to recover. She promoted a merchandise pre-order tied to an event she called CF23, open until the 22nd, and said she would rest until around Friday and expected to stream again that weekend.
This report was written by machine from the broadcast's automatic Indonesian captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.