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Donna Burke is a Western Australian singer, actress and lyricist who has lived in Tokyo since 1996.
She first came to prominence in 2001 acting in Silent Hill 2 (Angela) and Silent Hill 3 (Claudia). That same year she performed After All on the Gundam movie soundtrack, getting to work with legendary composer Yoko Kanno for the first time.
In 2010, the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker theme song, Heavens Divide, brought her millions of new fans. In 2012, Hideo Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear Solid, asked her to sing Sins of the Father for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which she recorded in L.A. at Capitol Studio in April 2013.
In 2015, Konami commissioned Donna to produce five new covers for the Metal Gear Solid Vocal Album, including Snake Eater and Quiets Theme. That same year, her song Glassy Sky from the anime Tokyo Ghoul became a sudden worldwide hit with over 20,000 covers on YouTube and 50 million views.
Since 2017 she has toured with Metal Gear in Concert, performing with orchestras in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Osaka and every year with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.
Donna works as a lyricist for video-game music composers including Nobuo Uematsu, Kumi Tanioka, Go Shiina, Yoko Shimamura, Akihira Honda and Kevin Penkin.
Since 2009, Donna has performed with the Tokyo Comedy Store Improvazilla Show.
Donnas voice-acting credits include ARMS (Doctor Coyle) Fitboxing / Fitboxing 2 (Laura), Metal Gear Solid (iDroid) and Magical Lyrical Nanoha (Raising Heart), but her most famous voice job is her English announcements on the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka and Kumamoto, which she has been doing since 2004.
Donna is writing and developing a TV series about high school Cosplayers and producing the soundtrack for it.